Reading about someone taking their own life is bad enough, but when you read about a parent killing their dependent children before taking their own lives, it leaves you cold and wondering?

Wondering as to the extreme state of mind of this person and wondering, above all “could this tragedy been averted’?

Mumbai city has seen a few of these cases which is actually the main reason for my blog today!  » Continue reading “13 Feb 12, Wednesday: Mumbai Mirror “Teacher kills sons before committing suicide””

Woke up this Monday morning all pensive about how fast my first born has grown up and reminiscent about these past 5 years of parenting; I wonder what I’ve done wrong more than right and am sure it’s a question like-minded parents often ask themselves.

Then I came across this article over my morning fix of tea; from the limited information it carried I found it rather absurd that Child Welfare Services could take your toddlers away just cause you fed them food with your hands (likened to ‘force feeding’) and tucked them in at night in bed with yourself.

If this applied in India then the jails would be insufficient to house all us ‘guilty’ parents. » Continue reading “23 Jan 12, Monday: Mumbai Mirror, page 14, “Give the kids back to their parents….””

A section of Gynecologists have warned that they have seen a perceptible rise in the number of early menopausal cases in the city in the last couple of years, feel here who attribute it to the increasingly stressful lifestyle and obesity arising due to junk foods. » Continue reading “According to experts stressful life can lead to early menopause”

Researchers say that women struggling with long-term pressures, such as depression or poverty, are more likely to be hostile, insensitive and neglectful toward their children.

The Study » Continue reading “Chronic Stress can Increase Mums’ Hostility Towards Kids”

According to a new study, Patients reporting greater stress were more likely to have more aggressive breast cancer tumors. Though the new study links aggressive breast cancer and stress, the lead researcher suggests the findings raise as many questions as they answer. » Continue reading “Stress Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer”

The old adage that the women should be smiling all thru her pregnancy so that the child born is smiling as well holds true even till date! Below is a research highlighting how the stress in mother can be appalling to the child-to-be-born?

» Continue reading “Stress during pregnancy linked to future behavioral problems in offspring”