Tips on Parenting

Communicating with your Children
Stress and Anger
The Mind of a Teenager
Mental Health of Adolescent Girls
• Give your child the freedom to ask questions and allow him to disagree with you sometimes.
• Praising, if done rightly glorifies your child’s good behavior (it will not spoil your child. Praise the act, not the child).
• The discipline must fit the deed, not exceed it.
• Children don’t learn from what you say, but they learn more from what you do.
• Demonstrate love and affection whenever necessary. Don’t use love as a payment for good conduct.
• Don’t be over protective towards your child, we all learn by making mistakes.
• Children do not upset you, rather it is your attitudes which upset you.

• Sleep disturbance.
• Poor appetite/irregular food intake. Not doing any work.
• Not attending/maintaining personal hygiene.
• Disturbed relationship with family members and others.
• Exhibiting behavior which is harmful or troublesome to others like being abusive, aggressive, suicidal or homicidal.
• Any bizarre or socially unacceptable behavior like undressing in public, collecting rubbish or wandering away from home.
• The person keeps getting fits repeatedly (more than 3 times a day or continuously).
• Disturbed behavior has occurred following child–birth.
• Persons who show abnormal behavior after taking alcohol.