6 ways To Foster Social Skills Through Stories

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Social Skills: Developing effective social skills lead to better communication, showing empathy, understanding other’s body language and emotions which are not taught in school, we as parents need to teach children all these skills through daily conversation or activities. Emotional Intelligence plays crucial role in developing children social skills. “It is an ability to recognize, […]

Practice Practice Practice

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How to Practice a story? When you are telling a story either to your kids or in front of audience members who are completely new to you, your job is to take the audience away to an imaginative world and make emotional connection. If you are able to do that through your narration, they can […]

What is Storytelling And Why?

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What is carved on rocks will wear away in time, what is told from mouth to mouth will live forever                                                                                                                                                  – Vietnamese saying What is a story\Storytelling?? Story is an approach to convey our feelings and thoughts to others and that need not always be a human being. We do tell stories to ourselves. […]

Thinking Skills

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What do we mean by ‘Thinking Skills’? Thinking is a naturally occurring process that happens as we experience something.  Thinking skills help us to deal with the world around us. The better we think the more we can understand how things work and this can help us realise our potential.   Why do we need […]

Cognitive Skills

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We want our children to be vibrant in their actions and get more out of their life. To fulfil all these hopes and dreams their overall cognitive development is very essential. It refers to the dynamic building of various learning skills of thinking capability, memory building and the ability to pay attention etc. In detail: […]

Parenting Styles – Uninvolved Parenting

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  Uninvolved Parenting This parenting style refers to ignorance of the parents towards their child’s emotional and social needs. While these parents do provide the kids with all the basic necessities of life including good food, ample clothes and a decent academic life, they are often quite inattentive to their emotional needs and rarely show any […]

Parenting Styles – Permissive Parenting

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Permissive Parenting – Allowing children to grow socially secure According to developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind permissive parenting is the way of rearing the children by being warm and nurturing, but also rather reluctant towards imposing any set limits on their behaviour. While the former proves to be a great trait in the emotional developments of […]

Parenting Styles – Authoritative Parenting

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                                                    Authoritative Parenting – A moderate approach Most applauded by developmental psychologists, the authoritative style of parenting is all about taking a moderate approach with respect to dealing with children. While, it does involve drawing certain lines to ensure socially acceptable behaviour and inculcate good habits, it also tends towards nurturing children in an encouraging […]