Nita’s Dilemma Nita, 30 years old, a competent software engineer, is completely baffled managing her two children – 6-year-old Mit and 3-year-old Jaina. Mit has recently started going to school and feels very superior about his activities. He calls his…
Bhavin’s Academic Struggles My son, Bhavin, is an 18-year-old student who has cleared his 12th Board examinations, scoring 70% marks. Right from the beginning of the 12th standard second term, he had lost interest in his studies. He would not…
I am Amit Patel, a 36 year old manager in a hotel chain. My wife Sarita, 32 years old, an interior designer has decided to walk out of our marriage as she feels that she has better prospects in life…
I am Priti Patel, a 46 year old housewife. Since the last 15 years, I have been trapped in an endless cycle of worries. My son and daughter-in-law have separated from the house because they were tired of my incessant…
I am Mona Parikh, a 19 year old commerce graduate. I have noticed that since the past 3 years, I somehow land up in tremendous problems. I find that I am not at all aware about my reactions to situations.…
I am Vinita Shrivastava, a 36 year old school teacher in a private school. In your last article, you had written about the teaching of emotional skills in children in school. I think it highly depends on the personality of…
Last week we looked at what interventions are possible at the school level for teaching emotional intelligence. One of the topics is conflict resolution. What typically escalates to conflicts is not communicating, making assumptions, and jumping to conclusions, sending a…
I am Anjushree Mehta, a 32 year old housewife. I have a son, Aditya, 6 years old studying in the 1st grade of a well-known school of Ahmedabad. I am amazed by the burden of studies on him. There is…
