Self-Esteem of your child What is self-esteem?A child has either high self-esteem or low self-esteem. Self-esteem is what the child thinks about himself subconsciously. Self-esteem is the ‘self-talk’ going on in the child subconsciously (without him or her knowing about it). What is the inner voice telling the child? It can be positive (‘anything is [...]
Movies and Your Child Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child Is Your Parent!’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). I shared in the previous chapter that a parent needs to have awareness about the kind of music he or she exposes the child to. The same way, the parent needs to have awareness about the movies [...]
Anger Management Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child Is Your Parent!’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). Improving Your Child’s Behaviour Most of the problems that we, as parents, face today regarding the behaviour of children are related mainly to one emotion, that is, anger. A child can have varied levels of anger, ranging from [...]
Discipline and your Child An article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). Before we understand the concept of ‘discipline’, we should understand the concept of ‘conditioning’. We normally subject our children to three major types of conditioning: Social Conditioning Religious Conditioning Gender Conditioning Social conditioning Consider [...]
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 [...]
Restoring Harmony with Your Child at Bedtime An article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi. In the course of the day, we, parents, too, make many mistakes, knowingly or unknowingly, in handling our children. It is very important to make up for those mistakes with our children before they [...]
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 [...]
