Category: Mindfully Yours

As a parent of two, I often interact with other parents and between the dinners and coffee meet-ups (pre covid of course!), a constant feature in the conversation is the classes that our kids attend, over and beyond the school hours. Most kids nowadays spend anything between seven to eight hours in school, add in…

Are we raising children to merely join the future workforce or are we bringing up compassionate human beings? Doesn’t the world need an amalgamation of both? A Happy Workforce How often do you come back from work or finish a full day of work and feel that you haven’t achieved much? How often do you…

We have all heard of “being comfortable in our own skin.” Most of us exist in a bubble with the assumption that we are, however, the question is, are we really comfortable with ourselves? Do we understand what drives us, what motivates us, and what makes us happy? To be able to really decipher the…

A Step Towards a Brighter Childhood The definition of childhood for most of us begins with carefree days, running around with friends, playing games, and chatting, but the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Childhood is now limited to staying at home, playing alone or with a sibling, increased screen time, and zero interaction with the…

“Mumma scolds me” complained a 5-year-old girl in my mom’s online class and my mom being the empathetic teacher told her not to worry and she will talk to her mom to not scold her. The child was happy and smiled geekily while reciting the rhyme. Punishments act as the aid to control a child’s…

Schooling Redefined COVID-19 is everywhere… it hit us from nowhere and when it began it came across as just a viral, we all assumed that the adjustments and the changes are just for a bit. A year and a half later, the pandemic hasn’t ended, but in this time, a lot has changed. Most of…

A Dose of Compassion Do you remember a time when all the other kids in school were playing while you stood out, looking at all of them, wishing you were a part of the game? Did you ever feel like no one stood up for you when you needed it the most? Have there been…

The Little Decision Makers As parents we believe that we are equipped to make the best decisions for our children. With our awareness of what is happening in the world and the ability to logically distinguish between right and wrong, the valid and not valid, and the safe and unsafe, we definitely have better tools…

Why we teach kids that schools are the most essential part of life? Why we give education so much importance? Maybe because the core idea of education is to nourish a growing mind with wisdom instead of knowledge and build a strong character. But with passing time it seems we are forgetting the main objective…

Aristotle said, “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” His words never ceased to be meaningful throughout human evolution. We might have been tran-sitioned from hunting and gathering tribes to an ultra-modern artificial intelligence one. But the fundamentals of human education of educating the heart are paramount today. The world…