Tag: Parenting‬

Dear parents, is your child overweight? Blame your neighbourhood fast food outlet

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A study has found that kids who live closer to fast food chains were more likely to gain a significant amount of weight between the first and last year of primary school. Residing in a suburb full of restaurants peddling junk food may not be the best for your kid. The diet of young children is influenced by the local food environment. Children who live near fast food outlets are more likely to gain weight compared with those living farther away, new research suggests. This is worrying as a recent…

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Tirukkural

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Tirukkural  by Tiruvalluvar ( a Tamil  poet/writer) was written more than 5000 yrs ago. It’s one of th e ancient science on Human behaviour , which has not changed in-spite of modern education  & technology !   SOME GOLDEN THOUGHTS OF THIRUKKURAL 1. If your child lies to you often, it is because you over-react too harshly to their inappropriate behaviour. 2. If your child is not taught to confide in you about their mistakes, you’ve lost them. 3. If your child had poor self-esteem, it is because you advice…

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PIW – Parent Induced Wastefulness…. (Don’t) take it easy!

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When parents strive to give their children the best of everything at an early age, they are sowing seeds for materially insatiable monsters that are prone to sloth, apathy, avarice and fear. Don’t stand in self- defense as yet. I have proof. As I sit in my counselor’s chair day after day, I encounter an altogether a new disorder that I have come to label as-Parent Induced HB Wastefulness (PIW). Here are a few examples: 26-year-old Manas does not want to finish his Engineering degree because he does not ‘feel…

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Why our children are so bored at school, cannot concentrate on study, cannot wait, get easily frustrated and have no REAL friends

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Children are getting worse in  many aspects. We  have seen and continue to see a decline in children’s social, emotional, academic functioning, as well as a sharp increase in learning disabilities, depression and aggression. Today’s children come to school emotionally unavailable for learning and many factors in our modern lifestyle contribute to this. 1. Technology “Free babysitting service” Compared to virtual reality, everyday life is boring. When kids come to the classroom, they are exposed to human voices and inadequate visual stimulation as opposed to being bombarded with graphic explosions…

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The Biology of Belief

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How our beliefs transform our genes and lives You might remember an interesting scene from the Hindi movie, TAARE ZAMEEN PAR. The art teacher (Aamir Khan) tells the rude and cursing father of the dyslexic kid (Darsheel) about Solomon Islands. In those islands, the tribal don’t cut down a tree. They surround the tree and curse it for hours every day. Within a few weeks, the tree dries up and becomes dead. Many of us might find that example too difficult to believe. How can intangible and invisible thoughts and…

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