Author Shraddha Gour Mohanti reminds us that often the presence of children has the potential to invoke in the grownups nobler qualities of the heart and of the psychic being. Click [ … ]
Category: Conscious Parenting
Kunti – A Paradigm of Conscious Parenting
Author Shruti Hajirnis Gupte writes about the heroic motherhood that Kunti epitomises for all times to come. Kunti stands out as a symbol of patience, courage, sacrifice and forbearance. Click [ … ]
Conscious Parenting: Lessons Learned as a Parent, Educator and Healer
Conscious parenting, starting with conscious conception and childbirth, has the potential to transform the essence of the human population in a matter of few generations. For this to happen, we [ … ]
Conscious Conception and Pregnancy: Listening to a Personal Journey
Indian tradition has always maintained that pregnancy should be by choice, and not by chance. As per the Vedic tradition a child has to be the result of prayers and [ … ]
Some practical advice on raising a child
Some more practical advice from the Mother on how to raise a child To wake a sleeping child, one should not call him loudly by his name or touch his [ … ]
Why should parents never scold a child?
Q: Why should parents never scold a child? “…ninety per cent of parents snub a child who comes spontaneously to confess a mistake: “You are very naughty. Go away, I [ … ]
Reading materials for the children
Q: What kind of reading materials should be selected for our children? “In unformed minds what they read sinks in without any regard to its value and imprints itself as [ … ]
Teaching our children how to live in the right way
Q: Are we teaching our children how to live in the right way? “To live in the right way is a very difficult art, and unless one begins to learn [ … ]
The best way to be with the little children
Q: What is the best way to be with the little children? “Little children are wonderful. It is quite enough to surround them with things and to let them be. [ … ]
Right balance between freedom and discipline
Q: What is the right balance between freedom and discipline for children’s growth? “There are all kinds of different and even opposite theories. Some people say, “Children must be left [ … ]