Tag Archives: children

The Real Tablet Revolution

This is the slate I used grow­ing up as a school kid. There was sib­ling rivalry over whose was shinier or had a larger “screen size”.

They are still used by some school chil­dren in India. Mil­lions of them go to school today like this (image credit):

With heavy bur­dens on their back, no won­der

Imaginative Parenting with Fictional Characters

Kids are the fastest evolv­ing species on this planet. Par­ent­ing tech­niques become out­dated faster and faster. How­ever, I think many under­ly­ing prin­ci­ples remain the same.
I think good par­ent­ing is not an acquired skill – because it needs con­stant acquir­ing. I need to be learn­ing and adapt­ing all the time if I am to be a good

Religion vs. Atheism in Parenting

A few weeks back, I read Richard Dawkins in The God Delu­sion say:
I want us to flinch when we hear of a ‘Chris­t­ian child’ or a ‘Mus­lim child’. Small chil­dren are too young to know their views on life, ethics and the cos­mos. We should no more speak of a Chris­t­ian child than of a