High heeled shoes to up women’s libido!

Read an interesting (read nonsensical) piece of Research result, in New Indian express, Bangalore Edition(Feb 7), found out by the Italian scientists. I call it ‘junk research’ as the results of such researches do more harm than good to woman-kind!...More...

Britney Spears, Bipolar Disorder

We all experience mood swings on and off. More so the teenagers with the onset of puberty and hormonal changes and changing expectations from parents, teachers, peer group etc. But these swings become a psychological disorder when the moods swing on and off...More...

Baghdad bombings and the Down's Syndrome

The two suicide bombers were girls with Down’s syndrome! and a person with Down’s syndrome does not have normal intellectual capacity and he/she is a mentally challenged person. How can such a person willingly give consent to be a suicide bomber? Surely, the girls here must have been tricked into it!...More...

Dyslexia: Some 'whys' and 'hows'

Some children would have experienced delays in speech acquirement and development, which later leads to language processing difficulty...Children who suffer from constant colds and coughs and ear infections may later develop auditory perceptual difficulties...More...

Dyslexia: Of kids with writing difficulty

If a child has very severe degree of difficulty to write, then the child is said to have dysgraphia.Since these children have poor spatial ability, they can not understand how much space would be required to write a longer word at the end of a line...More...

Dyslexia: the right handling

It is wrong to force a child to use his/her right hand while the child may prefer the left hand. The left or right handedness depends upon the dominance of the left or the right hemisphere of the brain...More...

Dyslexia: Different strokes

At 2 1/2 to 3 yrs, they start looking at letters in books and are made to understand that certain letters may look similar, but the direction of the strokes and curves differentiate them from each other. Children with visual perceptual problem will not be able to understand this concept and hence unable to discriminate between similar looking letters...More...

Dyslexia: When a child is at risk

There are developmental norms in various domains of child development and children differ in their pace of attaining these norms. If they persist beyond the age of 8, then special assessments for LD need to be done...More...

Dyslexia: Its indicators

Here we need to understand that there is no pressure upon the child to narrate the dialogues of a hero nor will the child be evaluated by anybody for at the end of this task! And the child has learnt it of his/her own free will...More...

Dyslexia: a neural disconnect

For all this to happen, the necessary neural pathways in the brain need to be well connected or wired. If there is any problem at any stage of the wiring, learning may not take place properly or what has been learnt may not be recalled when needed...More...

Taare Zamin Par and Dyslexia

It has touched viewers and succeeded in bringing awareness about dyslexia. But many cinema goers forget the whole message once they get back to their other pressing commitments...More...

Adoption: Why and the how of it

Many couples these days want to remain childless by choice, go in for adoption, regardless of their fertility factor, to give a loving and caring home to a child in need...More...

Adoption: Parental consensus

When one of the parents was not too willing for adoption, issues have cropped up at a later stage when they start blaming each other and blame the adoption for whatever differences / ills that have happened to the relationships. This can have a devastating effect upon the adopted child...More...

Adoption: Making sense of it

An older child needs time to make sense of adoption, the absence of its birth parents, may show curiosity to know more about its past and understand the significance of the whole matter. The new set of parents needs to be extremely patient and sensitive to be with the child in its new journey together with them...More...

Adoption: When to tell the child

When should the Parent inform the child about its adoption status? This is a very tricky, important issue that goes wrong many a times. Parents wait for the ‘right age’ to inform the child and when they feel the right age has come, they suddenly are caught by the fear, “what if the child rejects them now?” and they keep postponing this ‘revealing’ endlessly...More...

Thoughts for 2008

This is the time when there is much in the show window, but nothing in the stock room
A time when technology can bring this letter to you
And a time when you can choose
Either to make a difference ………………. or just hit, delete!...More...

Mindset of a suicide bomber

Psychologists have also found in them a lag in their emotional and moral development that makes it difficult for these children to discriminate right from the wrong. They are generally insensitive to others emotions...More...

Presidential holiday

our Prez Prathibha and 10 of her kith and kin decided to holiday at Andaman & Nicobar island and you know what was the repercussion of her decision? Some 60 most precious trees in the most environmentally protected park there were mercilessly cut down just to make a helipad for her jolly landing!...More...

Of fasting, feasting & festivals

Yesterday was Vaikunta Ekadashi according to Hindu calender. Ekadashi is the 11th day of each fortnight in a month when many Hindus observe fast and next day, on the dwadashi day, they have early lunch and feast...More...

Choking games - a dangerous fad!

Can games be so bizarre as to take the life of a boy?! How can people keep quiet about the appearance of such games on Internet? It seems, groups of youngsters play this game, wherein, the children try to choke themselves inorder to get a ‘kick’! out of the sensation of suffocation...More...