Life Skills

Why must kids learn life skills?

Kids are little adults that also go through all the upheavals that we experience on a daily basis. Except that they are far more vulnerable and adaptive to them. This makes it imperative for parents to focus on life skills. So, what are life skills? As the term suggests, life skills are the know-how required for one […]

Parenting

Life Skills Cards : GIFT FOR EVERY CHILD

Why not gift something different to my child this time, an innovative set of Life Skills Cards? Let me decorate it, or gift wrap it or creatively present it or decorate it with ribbon, flowers and leaves. My facebook and instagram post created much curiosity among parents. Some messaged, some enquired, and some asked me […]

Parenting

Positive parenting : doing a household chore with your child

Positive Parenting is required in today’s time more than ever when debates about screen time and life skills are doing the rounds. Apart from regulation of screen time for kids, our parenting have to include the responsibility of imparting life skills training to the child from the formative years of upbringing. Here is an example […]

Life Skills

Setting new parenting goals

“The parent-child relationship is qualitatively different than all of our other relationships.” – Neil Farber We are sure your 2019 planner is already on a roll and as parents, you may have set some goals to achieve this year. Taking inspiration from Mr Farber, here are some simple parenting tips that will add meaning and […]

Life Skills

Teaching my little one about life

Life is not a poem competition, nor an upcoming exam. There’s no “how to” manual to live it. And often as parents, our important challenge lies in how to prepare our kids for life and life skills education. We find engaging activities or coaching centres for them to be good communicators, active listeners, dancers, etc. […]

Life Skills

How to develop life skills in early years

Life skills, as we know, equip kids to manage the day to day challenges of life optimistically. But we live in a gadget-centric life, where there’s less time, more machines and tons of options to distract kids from learning new things. Why life skills are important for children: The children today are too busy living […]

Parenting

Mindful parenting – a new way of life

“Keep the phone away.” “I’d like it if you looked at me while I speak to you.” “Go out, play some sport.” Our children are used to receiving these instructions from us. But are they used to seeing us do that? Welcome to parentdom, where learning happens by doing more than reading or writing. Training […]

Parenting

Getting started with mindful parenting

We all understand that change is imperative. Yet we find it challenging to inculcate it in our lives. Especially when it comes to parenting, we have a set schedule and ways of responding to our kids, changing which may or may not be welcomed. However, just like our devices need an upgrade, even parenting requires […]

Life Skills

Decision making process – practising life skills

“What do I like?” versus “Do I like it?” “What should I do?” versus “This is what I should do.” There are always choices to be made. Our life, at every stage, is designed by the numerous choices we make. This is why decision-making is one of the most important part of our upbringing. Considering […]