Capacity of Human Brain – Part 1 Most parents in the world do not give much importance to the first few years of their child’s life. The first few years, to be more precise, the first 6 years of your child’s life are the most essential and the most formative years with respect to all [...]
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 [...]
Increasing Your Child’s Imagination Article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent!’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). As discussed earlier, art as a form of expression is the easiest and surest way to increase your child’s imagination. As he imagines, he visualises, and as he visualises, he expresses (i.e., paints). The moment his [...]
Music and your Child Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent!’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek).Music can do in minutes what weeks of meditative practice strives towards. Colin RoseMusic is one of the most beautiful ways of expression. It brings one into a state of relaxed alertness. Music must necessarily be an integral [...]
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 [...]
What is Education? An article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). The dictionary meaning of education is ‘to know and to impart’, but ‘to know what?’ is a question we must ask ourselves. Does our education system really teach us to go beyond the routine? Does it [...]
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 [...]
Parents as Role Models An article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek).The title says it all: parents are role models for their children. Everything that a child ‘is’ is mostly a reflection of what he has imbibed by observing his mother, father or people whom he has [...]
