Emotional coldness
I am Vishwa, a 24 year old fashion designer, engaged to be married to Ayush, 27 years old, a employee in a multinational bank. We have been together since about 5 months now and I am beginning to doubt the…
Limitations by parents
I am Sukruti Mishra. I am 21 years old and have left my studies after doing 2 years of B. Sc. My father is a police inspector and mother is a bank employee. Due to my father’s constant transfers from…
Parent counseling
This is a continuation of the previous two articles about the guidelines for parent counseling. Often it happens that parents find themselves ambivalent about how to interact with the child. They end up either scolding the child for their own…
Parent counseling 2
Last week we looked at Valmik’s parents who need advice regarding parent couselling. We looked at some of the fundamentals of parent-child interactions. Some more basics are narrated here. The love that a parent has for a child is…
Parent counseling
My son Valmik, 7 years old, studies in the 2nd standard in an English medium school. In the school, they had arranged for a parent-counseling seminar. In the seminar, I found that most parents were like me, very unclear about how…
Difficulties in adoption 2
Last week we looked at the difficulties faced by Mina in the adoption of Vineeta and how she was shocked at the education and the thought processes of Vineeta. She is ambivalent about the adoption process. Mina was shocked…