We all have wondered how different child-rearing practices affect children’s development, including Diana Baumrind, an American clinical and developmental psychologist known for her research on parenting styles. After studying how parents interacted with their preschool children, she identified two key dimensions of parental behaviour: Warmth versus Hostility Warm parents communicate love and affection for the child, whereas […]
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People say, “I love my dog”, “I love chocolates”, “I love my wife”. Love and the relationships it helps build are a very essential part of everyday life. And there essential-ness traces itself back to the times of Aristotle, a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece. In today’s article, we’ll be looking at his perspective […]
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The 5 stages of grief are 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression & 5. Acceptance. People do not necessarily go through these stages in the order mentioned or even spend time in all of them. These stages were first proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death and Dying. The purpose […]
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There’s no better exercise than to pause for 15 minutes on a daily basis and just be, in the present, with no worries about the future and no regrets about the past. There’s no better exercise than meditation. Here’s why: 1. Better Focus When you are able to focus all your attention to something as […]
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When a relationship ends, we usually find it easy to determine who untied the knots and who wished to tie it back together: the one who found a new partner or a new hobby or apartment and appeared to move on quickly did the dirty job of ending things,without experiencing an ounce of pain and […]
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It’s time we loosened our limbs a bit, let our words flow and let our hearts feel and thus, heal.
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Resilience is a skill that is learned over time; it’s not a personality trait. It is never too late to become resilient. One way to do this is to place your current issue in the scheme of bigger things and thus, zooming out!
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lbert Camus, a 20th century French philosopher, gave a new turn to philosophical thought of the time by bringing attention to the absurdity of life with his existentialist perspective. Here are three prime lessons to take away from his work!
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Sometimes it is through the darkest skies that the brightest stars reveal themselves!
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“His entire family had been planning a road trip from Delhi to Calcutta for almost five months. On a Sunday morning in November, they left their house in Shalimar Garden, all set to hit the road. His father had been driving for almost seven hours now. The siblings were busy nagging each other as the […]