An interesting report on the eating habits of 91 families in neighbourhoods around Washington DC, USA, has revealed a significant set of findings: children belonging to families that watch TV regularly during mealtimes go more for pizza, snack foods and soft drinks laced with caffeine, and less for fruits and vegetables. Brought out by Tufts… [ Continue Reading ]
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Single Parenting Made Double
My son, Adweit, peeks from the photograph lying on the desk, oblivious to the world around him. Actually no. He’s not. He’s pretty aware of what is happening. He is an amazing kid, and I often wonder how I would have coped with my ‘burden’ without him by my side. Holding my hand and showing… [ Continue Reading ]
Mesmerised by the Tube
The fact that television has an edge over other media because of its multisensorial appeal and the fact of its ubiquitous existence is what has made researchers probe its almost mesmeric hold on people across the world – especially pre-teen children, considering their impressionable developmental stage. The hearth and the kitchen, traditionally the core of… [ Continue Reading ]
Small Screen, Big Aspirations
The edge television has over other media due to its multisensorial appeal and its ubiquitous existence has made researchers probe its mesmeric hold on people across the world – especially pre-teen children, considering their impressionable developmental stage. With this concern in mind, ‘Centre for Advocacy and Research’, a Delhi-based media research organisation in Delhi recently… [ Continue Reading ]
Why do we need Fathers?
‘I am the earner protector, and you, the nurturer home-builder,’ was a division of labour that was working fine over the past couple of hundred years. There is no doubt that without all four of these issues taken care of, any family would find it difficult to survive. But increasingly, women are now capable of… [ Continue Reading ]
Full Circle
“I’m unbearably tired, so terribly exhausted, I just want to sleep,” she said. And sleep she did – that eternal sleep – never to wake up again. This article is a long overdue tribute to her. She had always maintained that I will never find time to write about her, she was all too familiar… [ Continue Reading ]