ARE INDIAN PARENTS GETTING THEIR ANSWERS?

When Sushma was five, her mother worried about her little ones thumb-sucking. At 28, Ms Sushma, who now has a six-year-old son, has other worries. "I worry about the amount of time he spends on the computer," she says. "It's useful and he learns his alphabet on it, but how many hours should I allot for his computer time?"
Most parents speak to their eye specialist on the time their children spend on the TV and Computers.
"Parenting has become a challenging role these days, what with so much happening in the environment around us. We can't just rely on hearsay or what our mothers recommend. And what about those young couples who live far away from their folks; where do they get advice and information?"
To answer these complex dillemas we encourage you to blog onto this site.
Dr.Rajesh Parekh ,Medical Director-MAXVISION EYE CARE CENTRE will answer these questions. The website of the charitable trust he also works for is www.projectmoksh.com

LANGUAGES & THE INDIAN CHILD.

Parents can successfully bring up their children to be fluent in more than one language in different ways. In many families, each parent speaks only one language with the child. This can also work if a Dadi,nani or grandparent speaks to the child consistently in a language that is different to the one the parents speak. Other families speak a different language in different settings, for example a minority language at home and the majority language in public. There can even be an agreement to speak alternate languages every other day.

Children may become fully bilingual after they start school and learn the majority language. But a common historical phenomenon is that such children later forget the minority language, or retain only a receptive understanding, without full speaking fluency. There may be many complex psychological and social reasons, such as embarrassment at feeling different from peers. Yet in many parts of the world, such as Scandinavia, Switzerland and India, multilingualism is universal and is promoted naturally both in homes and school systems from an early age.

BrainSkill is one such website which you can visit to aid your child.
Indian parents could share their experiences .........