Imaginative Parenting with Fictional Characters

Kids are the fastest evolving species on this planet. Parenting techniques become outdated faster and faster. However, I think many underlying principles remain the same. I think good parenting is not an acquired skill – because it needs constant acquiring. I need to be learning and adapting all the time if I am to be…

The Power Of One

A conversation between a small girl (Scout) and her father (Atticus) from To Kill A Mockingbird: “Do you defend niggers, Atticus?” I asked him that evening. “Of course I do. Don’t say nigger, Scout. That’s common.” “ ‘s what everybody at school says.” “From now on it’ll be everybody less one.”

Religion vs. Atheism in Parenting

A few weeks back, I read Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion say: I want us to flinch when we hear of a ‘Christian child’ or a ‘Muslim child’. Small children are too young to know their views on life, ethics and the cosmos. We should no more speak of a Christian child than of…