Teenagers and Their Doldrums
Snehashree Guest blogger Our life moves through several stages, and in each stage, there come tests and lessons. Someone recently shared their child’s teenage with me, and I could not stop myself from remembering my…
Parenting Beyond the Confines of Materialism
Soumya Bharti Guest Blogger “These days kids don’t value anything” “Why are today’s children so dissatisfied?” “This generation behaves in such an entitled manner” “How can today’s kids get bored so easily?” How many times…
Time to Land your Helicopter: Understanding Adolescence without Hovering
Chandrika R Krishnan Guest Blogger As I was taking a workshop titled ‘Time to Land your Helicopter: Understanding Adolescence without Hovering; I remember a mother sharing that her child orders food and bag without as much…
Parenting Practices and Cultural Amalgamation
Sweden was my first international move with a nine-year-old daughter. It was in many ways courageous on my part to leave the comfort of familiarity and enter disruption. This was also my first exposure to…
An Ode to the Much-Maligned Modern Living
Chandrika R Krishnan Guest Blogger “The nature of life is not permanence but flux,” says Mr Carson in Downton Abbey, and coming from him who tries to retain the old order was so refreshing. Closer home,…
My Grandmother…
Deepthi Krishnan Guest Blog I always remember her dressed in the typical traditional Kerala “set mundu” that was pristine and starched worn with a plain white blouse. The rudraksha on her neck, her soft eyes,…
