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Forgiveness: An important lesson for kids

It’s a happy time for you when your kids are nicely sitting and playing with sibling or a friend at playdate. And then all of a sudden you hear the screams and one trying to hit the other. You getting mad at them and they both are correct and both are wrong. You are trying to sort out but none is ready to understand because what they want to do is hit the other one, maybe because that is what satisfies them. We just think that why can’t the elder one just understand and “forgive”. Why doesn’t the younger one just obey the elder one and be gentle and forgiving. Well! Teaching our kids to be forgiving is very important but how is the big question. These are few tips I follow with my 2 kids. 1.        Release out : As elders even kids need to vent out their feelings, anger and frustration. To make my kids confident I always ensure that they vent out. If the kids don’t vent out properly they tend to bottle negative emotions and learn to live in stress.  After a massive fight the

How to time your kids TV and Gadgets time?

The little ones know how to use the gadgets better than parents. Some parents feel proud of their kids for such an achievement but for most it’s a topic of concern. It was a big concern when I went and interacted with other fellow parents in the soccer class that 2 year old or maybe 3 year old are fixed to mobile phone. It has become an easy way for parents to keep their kids quiet and busy by just giving them a phone or IPad to watch a cartoon show on YouTube while they finish their job. We were in the soccer class when one 5 year old was playing the game but the little one was just not ready to sit so the poor mother had no other option rather than giving her the phone with her favourite cartoon on. I do the same several times to keep my kids busy. When I have to finish my household core or maybe some pending office work, the best way to keep my kids busy and not disturb me is give them phone or put their favourite movie on TV. But the alarming part for me was when my kids st