Academics And Your Child An article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). “A mind stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes As specified earlier, if one were to have an actual idea of the capacity of one’s child’s brain [...]
Emotions and Your child Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). The nine rasas (essences of life), called as navrasas, are Veera (courage), Bibhatsa (disgust or discontentment), Bhayanak (fear), Karuna (compassion), Raudra (anger), Adbhuta (wonder), Shringar (romance), Shantam (peace) and Hasya (laughter). All human emotions are variations [...]
Meditation and Your Child An article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi. Every child is born meditative; in fact, the child is always in meditation, when born. Whatismeditation? Meditation means being in the moment totally, not worried about the past or the future. If you observe children, you will see [...]
Using both hemispheres of the Brain Excerpts from the book ‘Super Leader Stratergies.’ by Manoj J Lekhi. Our left brain is the ego. It continues to argue and question. Where as our right brain is God which continues to feel. The right brain is imagination, creativity, spontaneity, all qualities of God and children too. The left brain [...]
Food and your Child Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi. The one thing that most parents are almost paranoid about when their child is small is his diet, or the food he eats. They are forever worried whether their child is eating enough, even if the child [...]
Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi. How we speak to our child, the words we use while speaking to him or her, plays a very important role in the development of the child. To begin with, we must recognise that by using certain words again and [...]
Left Brain and Right Brain Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi. Most people in the world operate mainly from the left brain. Their life is only about thinking, calculating and analysing. However, the real springs of life lie in spontaneity, love andall expressions of creativity like dance, drama, music, [...]
Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child is your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi. HOW DO WE LEARN AND MEMORISE THINGS? All our learning, all our memory, takes place through our five senses, namely, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The best thing that we as parents can do is to develop these five senses [...]
Art as an Experience Art, for most of us, is the physical act of drawing and painting. On stretching our viewpoint further, we realise that it is much more. Art is an experience, an expression of one’s inner self. Exercise: Please do a small exercise before you read the next paragraph. It will be very [...]
