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Slow parenting means parenting of children in the contact of nature without any interference of materialistic influence. We can also term it as ‘self raising’. Those were the days, when raising children was not a matter of planning. But today when to plan a baby, what will be their parenting style, everything is preplanned. So [...]

Attention Deficit Disorder is a problem faced by children as a result of which they are unable to concentrate on the tasks they do. Such children are unable to decide the routine for doing a particular thing. They are unable to decide where to start, how to proceed and how to end. For any task [...]

At all ages children learn the most from parents and often depend upon them for help as and when needed. The nature of association or the help required depends upon the age of the child. When young the child is more dependent. When in teens, the age of adolescence, the child has often developed some [...]

All parents have different style of raising the child, and it is not possible to say that a particular style is better as compared to the other. It depends upon the circumstances in which the child and parents are placed. The two basic styles of training a child are authoritarian style and permissive style. However [...]

A nuclear family has become the norm of the day. To top it up divorces and remarriages of the parents have become equally common. Remarriages may give parents the kind of partner they had aspired. It may not sink in well with the child from the previous marriage. It’s difficult for the child to see [...]

Parenting could be fun, exhausting, mind boggling or even a learning experience for many. They say, none of the parents are perfect in the world. Each one of them makes some mistake or the other in their way of bringing up kids. Hence parenting, when taken as an educative journey, turns out to be quite [...]

The first child of any parent is always quite pampered and showered with undivided attention, so at times these tiny bundles of joy tend to get spoiled and demanding. Parents fulfill their each and every wish because they love them more than anything else and another reason for the same is parents lack of experience [...]

Pediatrician William Sears coined the term Attachment Parenting (AP). It is basically a parenting pilosophy and is based on the attachment theory found in developmental psychology. Attachment theory advocates that if a child has a strong sentimental bond with its parents in childhood, he is sure to have a healthy and passionate relationship with them [...]