Tag: children

• Bursting the Myth of the Perfect Parent: Let’s be good enough!!

  There is no way to be a perfect parent, yet many ways to be a good one!! We all have been in situations of emotional meltdown numerous times during our parental journey. Be it an intense reaction to a silly tantrum of our toddler or a heated argument with our teenager over breaking the boundaries,…

  Manasi Sardesai

  July 30, 2026

  #parenting

  #goodenoughparent, #happiness, #happychildrenhappyparents, #parenting, #perfectparentmyth, children, family, life, mental-health

• आपल्या मुलांना आपण काय द्यायला हवे??

  “मी नेहमीच शिकायला तयार असतो, पण मला नेहमी शिकवलेले आवडत नाही.” विस्टन चर्चिल आजकाल मूल जन्माला येतं त्या क्षणापासूनच खरं तर आपण त्याला/तिला काही न काही देत असतो. अर्थात, आपल्या मुलांना सुरक्षित वातावरण, चांगल्या सोयीसुविधा, चांगलं शिक्षण या गोष्टी देणे हे आपलं कर्तव्यच असतं आणि हे कर्तव्य प्रत्येक पालक आपापल्या परीने पूर्ण करत असतो. किंबहुना…

  Manasi Sardesai

  June 27, 2026

  #marathi, #parenting

  #experentiallearning, #happiness, #happyparenthappychild, #happyparenting, #marathi, #parenting, children

• Healthy Screen Habits for Preschoolers

  “It’s not good enough for us to have generations of kids that look forward to a better version of cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration!!“ A lot has been already spoken about the use or rather overuse of smartphones across all generations, so what’s new about this…

  Manasi Sardesai

  March 9, 2026

  #parenting

  #family, #mentalhealthawareness, #parenting, #peacefulmind, #screenaddiction, #screentime, #screenuseawareness, #smartphoneuse, #toddlers, children, mental-health, social-media, technology

• Encouragement: An effective tool!!

  A child needs your love most when he deserves it least!! As we have already discussed in the previous blog post “Why do children misbehave?“, the misbehavior of children is a way of expressing their need to belong. They feel discouraged and are craving for belongingness and significance. Therefore, to redirect the misbehavior to a…

  Manasi Sardesai

  November 4, 2025

  #parenting

  #emotions, #happiness, #happychildrenhappyparents, #parentchildrelationship, #parenting, #parentingstyles, #peacefulmind, #positivediscipline, #positiveparenting, #psychology, children, family

• Why do children misbehave?

  A misbehaving child is a discouraged child. Rudolf Dreikurs. We, as parents, teachers or adults always complain about the misbehavior of children, be it throwing tantrums, being aggressive, lying, answering back, bullying, attention-seeking, etc. We often don’t understand the reasons behind such behavior and therefore loose our cool as a response to any tantrum thrown…

  Manasi Sardesai

  September 25, 2025

  #parenting

  #childpsychology, #happiness, #happychildrenhappyparents, #happyparenting, #misbehavior, #parenting, #psychology, children, family

• Concepts of Positive Discipline

  Discipline is helping a child solve a problem; punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. L.R. Knost In the last post, we discussed some of the major changes that happened in the society and influenced our as well as our children’s lives. In addition to this, one more important factor is the…

  Manasi Sardesai

  September 17, 2025

  #parenting

  #happiness, #happychildrenhappyparents, #parentchildrelationship, #parenting, #positivediscipline, children, discipline, family

• A brief introduction to the changed scenario!!

  The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new!! Socrates Most of the times, we feel frustrated with our children for not being the “good kids” like the old days (which we think, we were during our childhood). I mean, did we dare…

  Manasi Sardesai

  September 11, 2025

  #parenting

  #emotions, #happiness, #happyparenthappychild, #parentchildrelationship, #parenting, #positivediscipline, #psychology, children, family

• The ‘Positive Discipline’ Approach to Parenting

  Children do better when they feel better! Jane Nelsen In the last post, I had discussed what exactly it means to learn parenting and why there is a need to learn parenting in this age. This post is in continuation to the same topic. As I am really interested in learning about the growth and…

  Manasi Sardesai

  September 5, 2025

  #parenting

  #emotions, #happychildrenhappyparents, #healthymind, #parenting, #parentingstyles, #positivediscipline, #psychology, children, family, mental-health

• Do we really need to “learn” parenting??

  Behind every child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed in them first!! In this age of information overload where we are everyday bombarded with lots of information about everything right from what to eat, what to wear, how to behave, so on and so forth, we are mostly confused about even those…

  Manasi Sardesai

  August 16, 2025

  #parenting

  #awareness, #emotions, #happyparenting, #parentchildrelationship, #parenting, #psychology, children, family, life, mental-health

• Parenting of the tech savvy generation!!

  Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master!! Christian Louise Lange Parenting has always been a challenging task after all our kids don’t come with a user manual, isn’t it?? Earlier, children were raised in a community comprising of joint family, extended family members, neighbours, etc. Therefore, children had multiple options for emotional support,…

  Manasi Sardesai

  July 1, 2025

  #parenting

  #genz, #healthymind, #internet, #mentalhealth, #parenting, #tehsavygeneration, children, mental-health, responsibleinternetuse, social-media, technology