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Is your child stressed? Learn from an expert
Published on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:12, Updated on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 21:08 in 
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Is your toddler throwing temper tantrums? Does your 10-year old suffer from heartburn or loss of appetite before an exam? Has your teenager become withdrawn or rebellious? If you answered yes to any of these, your child may be stressed.
Dr PV Vaidyanathan, MD, DCH, a practicing child specialist from Mumbai for the last 17 years, helps you understand and reduce the stresses in your child's life, and make him more relaxed and balanced in his book Make Your Child Stress-Free.
We bring you an excerpt from the book -
Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it."
- PAMELA GLENCONNER
WE, THE PARENTS
One of the toughest jobs in the world must easily be that of bringing up children, in a proper manner. Hence, in this section, we shall take a look at those who do this laborious, back breaking and often heart-breaking task—the parents.
Unfortunately for a majority of parents, life is neither easy nor straightforward. Most couples who get married have children, but for entirely different reasons.
For some, marriage followed by childbirth and child rearing, is often the aim or ambition of life. Many couples have a child by accident. Many have children in order to continue the family name.
Many who have a girl desperately want a boy, at least in our country. In some others, parents and other family members pressurize them, to have a child.
A certain group of parents want children to fulfill their own unfulfilled desires and aspirations. Many have children because they want to have children, because children give them immense joy, and a purpose in life.
When such are the varied reasons for having a child, it is but obvious that parents will also differ, in ways of bringing up children, as well as in their expectations from their offspring.
Most parents expect their children to be well-mannered, smart, good looking, honest, hard working, and to excel in studies, and in some extracurricular activity, like dance, music or sports.
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