Engineering the success of our daughter’s dream

Contrary to stereotype, for some reason my daughter, Sitara when she was younger preferred to play with cars. Even her Barbies wore overalls and sat on dumpsters. We laughed it off and called her tom- boyish and hoped that someday she would get over this phase and she would do ‘the girlie stuff.’ 

She did get over the phase of playing with toy cars. And she graduated to the real one, much to her father’s delight, who was a closet car junkie. His real job was......

Did you know your child was capable of doing extra ordinary things? Only if you choose wisely

Children, these days, can only be described by one word – driven. After a full day at school, they have the energy and passion to wholly immerse themselves into an hour or so of their favourite hobby (or hobbies), without a whimper about being tired.  Literally ‘driven’ too, as every mum will vouch for, sitting behind the steering wheel, glaring at a schedule of back-to-back after-school classes!

Very simply put, having a hobby is a good thing.  If you are......

5 reasons why extra curricular activities are a key to your child’s holistic development

Today, the mounting pressure of proving academic excellence coupled with technology dominated recreation has made our children lose interest in hobbies and other enrichment activities.  Parents and educators are rarely seen encouraging the younger generation to pursue their dreams and passions.  Instead the focus is primarily on scoring high grades to facilitate admission into top colleges; a sure fire means to secure a child’s future, at least professionally.  It’s......

What does your son's education cost look like 10 years from now

“I want to become a doctor and help villagers who to do have access to hospitals..”
“My dream is to create the  8th wonder of the world….”
“I want to be the next best cricketer ever, breaking all the world  records….”
“I want to lead a music band and travel around the world performing innumerable concerts……”

If we sit around and start talking about our kids and their careers, we will invariably be exchanging all the aforesaid dream......

Ten offbeat lucrative career paths for your big dreamer

When I grew up, there were two primary career options after high school - one was to become a doctor and the other an engineer. Even commerce and accounting stood a distant third.  The school curriculum was also structured to push you into one of these categories. One of the perils of this was that an individual with a special skill like painting was forced to relegate that to a hobby and follow the crowd. 
However, now the attitude of both parents and schools hav......