Parenting: A Guilt Trip

Parenting has been hard, especially for parents of millennials and more so for parents of Gen Z. With the onset of the information age, socio-economic upheavals, and breakdown of the family structures, parenting has become a domain of strategic planning and management. In the movie Taare Zameen par, you could see the child being put through intense routines, training and discipline to prepare the child for a fairly competitive and cut-throat world; and if the child was unable to adhere to the rules, parents saw it as a failure on their part and that of their child’s.

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What Strength is Your Loneliness?

What Strength is Your Loneliness?

Loneliness is a world-wide phenomenon. Everyone at some point or the other in their lives has experienced loneliness. Some deal with it better, others pretend to manage it and then some ignore it completely. In one way or another, loneliness speaks to us of an innate need to connect to others. Can loneliness be a strength?

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