Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Now, this is a big question that faces the parents. It is not that our parents and generations before them had it easy. It never was an easy task. But let’s face it. Today’s children are well-informed, vocal and independent and they can neither be threatened, coerced or even flattered into acting […]Read More
Tags : Child Psychology
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Has your child become lonesome and started avoiding social contact? Does he/she not participate in activities that he/she enjoyed earlier? Have you seen any change in the eating habits or sleeping pattern? Does he/she have mood swings? Or is he/she watching too much TV? If the answer to any of the above […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha As a society, we collectively abhor the idea of sex education to our teenagers. Most teachers would rather skip the chapter on reproduction in science text books. I remember way back in the 1980s, my biology teacher told us to read the chapter at home! We were in class IX at that […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Sexual abuse is a topic about which we should speak to children at an early age. The incidents of sexual offences against kids as small as two and three make it imperative that they are taught about it sooner than later. But as the age is very small, the talking has to […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Love & Rage: The Inner World of Children by child psychotherapist Nupur Dhingra Paiva (Yoda Press, 235 pages, Rs 450) explores the emotional world of children—most of whom she has counselled over the years and whose stories she shares with permission. “By sharing these stories, I want to start conversations in people’s […]Read More