Team L&M A new research reveals a growing problem: teenagers are losing sleep to late-night smartphone use. And, this has serious health and academic consequences. These facts came to light through a COP survey. The survey report was released on World Sleep Day, yesterday (March 13). The survey by COP (Child Online Protection) App, covered […]Read More
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Team L&M In a bid to raise alarm on the prevalent imbalance of gender roles in parenting, experts across India are advising parents to embrace the concept of co-parenting. Co-parenting is a model where both parents share equal responsibilities in raising children, rather than furthering the traditional norm of the mother as the primary caregiver. […]Read More
Team L&M Madhuban Publishing House organised a workshop on parenting tips for the parents of wards at Fatima Convent School in Ghaziabad recently. Almost all the parents of the children studying in classes 1, 2 and 3 at the school attended the workshop spearheaded by Motivational Speaker Ashwani Kumar Sharma. Parents shared their concerns with […]Read More
Neha Jain Reading helps a child’s language skills grow. Books, irrespective of whether they are purely for gaining knowledge or a fairytale helps parents teach important values and life skills. The advantages of leisure reading include increased academic performance, vocabulary development and an increase in general knowledge. Kids often tend to associate reading with work, […]Read More
Team L&M Aimed at helping people manage their mental health during the Covid-19 lockdown, the Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences at Fortis Healthcare has released a free Kindle e-book titled Don’t Worry! Here’s How You Can Keep Your Mind Fit During a Pandemic. Expert-Led Guidance for Mental Wellness Conceptualised by Dr Samir Parikh, […]Read More
Dr Alpa Vasishat Who doesn’t remember the gummy grin of Miley in the famous Hollywood series Hanna Montana? Or our very own star kid Ishan Awasthi from Taare Zameen Par, who left an everlasting impression on public cause of his big crooked teeth? Besides luring the hearts of many, these favourite kids of all time had […]Read More
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
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