TAKING BACK OUR ROLE

When I was a child, I thought to myself, “I can be a better parent and teacher than the ones I have.” Just to live up to this has been such an uphill task, I now have a new-found admiration for my parents, my teachers and everyone who is remotely associated with bringing up a child!

Haven't we made all efforts to be effective parents? But we begin to lose confidence along the way. I see a great need for parents to believe in themselves again, and now we all need to learn how to regain our confidence and to remember that our primary parental responsibility is to teach. We need to teach them not only to read and write, to do math, to pick up after themselves, but also teach principles and values, like how to love and respect themselves and others, be polite, self-reliant, responsible and happy. Our primary role is not to make our children happy. We have to teach them to find their own happiness. >>keep reading...

Juhi Mehta, the quintessential mother-teacher, runs Life Express - an after-school center for children. She can be reached at juhimalini@gmail.com. She writes 'Reflections of an inner Journey'