Having children is like opening a path way to re-evaluate this thing called life. Everyday we wake up to new challenges we may have missed when we were young. Everyday we get new opportunities to mend our own past through our children's reflections. Learn to embrace our children the way we wanted to be embraced. Tread each step with thanks giving because we can never go back in time.

Research shows a strong correlation between a child's self-esteem and his/her academic success; statistics prove that children who feel good about themselves learn more easily and retain information longer. They do better in every day. If they have a sense of well-being, they are much more likely to be able to handle the ups and downs of daily life, including prejudice, abuse, addiction, delinquency and…

Before we can love anyone unconditionally, we must first love ourselves. We have to give and express the unconditional love to ourselves that was not provided to us by our biological parents. We re-parent ourselves not by our parents but by our own inner source of love." -- Anne V.

You can't raise healthy kids if you are always flying off the handle. It’s not as if you just need a rich chocolate pastry or a movie to temporarily rejuvenate you. Or…

I was pushed into writing this article as an aftermath of attending a Parenting seminar, where I had the opportunity to interact with parents of teenagers. The flow of conversation was in the form of complaints about raising teenagers (as was expected). “ I am becoming a monster these day, handling tantrums”, “It’s always a NO everything “I really detest that…