Helping a Child

Hari Datt Sharma founded the Peace of Mind Mission based in New Delhi. As a retired senior teacher, he received training in Special Education in England under the Technical Cooperation Award and won many awards. His seminars on Peace of Mind, Yoga, Vedanta, Kundalini, Upanishads and mystic explanations of the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Devi Mahatam, etc. were well received.

Parents need to look within to see how they can be model parents and provide a healthy environment for proper mental, emotional and physical growth of their children. Focussing on this basic issue, this book holds a mirror to parents, and shows how they can excel in the art of parenting. However over protection or restrictiveness can spoil a child; permissiveness or indulgence can make him anti-social, rejection can work on his personality as to why he takes to lying, stealing or mud-eating.The book is a total guide on the subject covering topics from effects of disturbed parenthood, role of right communication, common childhood behaviourial disorders like stuttering, bed-wetting, nail biting to behaviour improvement techniques, skills development, fostering creativity and helping in setting and achieving of goal - and finally a complete section on looking after handicapped children.

Parents need to look within to see how they can be model parents and provide a healthy environment for proper mental, emotional and physical growth of their children. Focussing on this basic issue, this book holds a mirror to parents, and shows how they can excel in the art of parenting. However over protection or restrictiveness can spoil a child; permissiveness or indulgence can make him anti-social, rejection can work on his personality as to why he takes to lying, stealing or mud-eating. The book is a total guide on the subject covering topics from effects of disturbed parenthood, role of right communication, common childhood behaviourial disorders like stuttering, bed-wetting, nail biting to behaviour improvement techniques, skills development, fostering creativity and helping in setting and achieving of goal — and finally a complete section on looking after handicapped children.

Parents need to look within to see how they can be model parents and provide a healthy environment for proper mental, emotional and physical growth of their children. Focussing on this basic issue, this book holds a mirror to parents, and shows how they can excel in the art of parenting. However over protection or restrictiveness can spoil a child; permissiveness or indulgence can make him anti-social, rejection can work on his personality as to why he takes to lying, stealing or mud-eating.The book is a total guide on the subject covering topics from effects of disturbed parenthood, role of right communication, common childhood behaviourial disorders like stuttering, bed-wetting, nail biting to behaviour improvement techniques, skills development, fostering creativity and helping in setting and achieving of goal — and finally a complete section on looking after handicapped children.