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Experts advise balancing love with discipline, promoting self-reliance through role modelling, gentle correction, genuine interest, clear routines, and respecting independence for well-rounded children.
A child rights commission has ordered sugar's removal from Amrutham Nutrimix, citing health risks and promoting jaggery, better packaging, and awareness programmes.
The most difficult challenge is identifying children living in toxic and abusive households. Unlike orphans, who are readily visible, these children are often hidden in plain sight, suffering in silence.
Three boys drowned in separate incidents in Kozhikode district on Friday. One teenager died while fishing, and two others drowned while bathing, with one relative narrowly escaping.
Parenting involves guiding children's growth by prioritising parental well-being, addressing root causes of issues, fostering self-reliance, offering constructive encouragement, embracing individuality, allowing failure, explaining consequences, and modelling authentic imperfection.
Childhood emotions like sadness and anger are normal; seek support from adults, use coping strategies like talking or exercise, and report any mistreatment or negative peer pressure immediately to trusted figures.
Anger in children signals underlying distress, not naughtiness. Understanding their developing brains and fostering communication, calming techniques, and validation helps them express feelings constructively, rather than through outbursts.
Eighteen children from tribal settlements received bicycles, funded by a donation pool, after requesting them for school travel during a Collector's visit.
Dr Chikku Mathew, Consultant Psychiatrist, and Dr Sunu John, Senior Consultant Paediatrician, Caritas Hospital, Kottayam, explain how the collision of screens and mealtimes affects children.
Before a crucial school exam or when trying a brand new activity, it is incredibly common for children to say, "I just cannot do this." Our natural, loving instinct as parents is to offer immediate reassurance by saying, "Of course you can!" with a reassuring pat on the shoulder. However, child
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