Walk with your child happily!!!

Encourage your children to take active part in games and sports. Train them like a coach trains a star athlete. Teach them to be courteous winners and sporting losers. This attitude will go a long way in preparing them to meet the challenges of life head on. Read to your children from the time they are very young. You will be surprised how much they will absorb. Soon they will start reading on their own. Provide them with good and interesting books. Talk to them about what they are reading. Discuss with them the merits and demerits of books you and they have read. Reading good books is a habit that always pays off. Inculcate the habit of reading in your children from their formative years.

Help them to make decisions because they are likely to make wise decisions later on. These decisions will at first be very small impact-wise, but making decisions, which have bigger impacts in terms of money, time, respect and happiness, is what life has in store for them. Learn to mix equal doses of affection and discipline when you are bringing up your children.  Protect them from harm but do not mollycoddle them. By being over- protective you might be blocking their vision.  Let them be independent. You want to give your children all good things in life. But there are times when you can’t, learn to say no to your children when it is necessary. Very often a clear and distinct no can save hundred heartaches! Parents who don’t teach their duties are as guilty as the children who neglect them in their old age. If parents can teach these during first 100 months of their children’s life, they can anticipate greater odds in their favour for the future.

Recently one of my colleagues had a brainstorming session with me about his daughter who had just completed her schooling. He was thinking out loud about sending her for computer education, expecting that within two or three years she would get a job paying her RS.12,000 to RS.15,000 per month, and in the process save three years of college too. To me this was like taking the fun out of life. Skipping campus life may be the smart thing to do, but it is certainly not a wise thing I really do not know why we want our children to grow up so fast that they always regret it when they look back . Some parents send their two-year-old children to school, and make their simple lives complex.

Education means that your children can play with their grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, and friends. I would rather see my children get 60% marks and hear their happy laughter every evening than have them become sullen bookworms who score 95%.

When my younger daughter was eight and studying in the third standar , I once found her muttering to herself, “Papa is Lucky. He comes home, drinks tea, watches TV, reads magazines, has his dinner, goes to sleep and he has no worries. Look at me! I have to do homework, prepare my bag for the next day, and I am always afraid of my teachers and my mother as I have to get good marks”.

Let your children choose their own profession whether it is medicine, computer science, dress designing, music, sports, or whatever interests them. Arrange for them to see good movies and plays, to visit exhibitions and art galleries, to go trekking and camping with school group. They will merge as happier and more complete persons.

I have never come across better advice than from my guru, Andrew Carnegie. If you gave one of your relatives a million dollars, would

you expect him to grateful? Andrew Carnegie did just that. But if Andrew Carnegie had come back from the grave a little while later, he would have been shocked to find this relative cursing him as old, Andy had left 365 million dollars to public charities and had cut him  off with “one measly million,” as he put it. Don’t expect gratitude from your better-half, because it is natural for people to forget to be grateful. And if you ever get it, consider it a matrimonial medal www.herbalifeextravaganza.com.

Whenever you do something for your better-half, do it for the inner joy of giving. Start being grateful for whatever your spouse does for you and it is possible that your better-half may the hint.

Life is all about making and taking decisions, when we should get up, what to wear, what to eat and so on. Many of us when we over protect our children, are in fact harming them. Parents have to take a decision as when and how much freedom or money to give their children. There is no one way or easy way. It has to be seen in totally. Teach your children to be responsible persons. Teach them to not to be ashamed of carrying out ant task assigned to them. Encourage them to keep their books and toys in proper place. When they finish their projects they mush tidy up, and not leave others to clear up the mess after them. Send your children, when they are big enough on small errands outside the house. Expose them to the relatives of life, such as going to bank, paying bills etc… by doing so they will grow up mentally very fast!

Each one of us has a goal to be happy in life. I sincerely believe that you should get happiness out of your work or you’ll never know what happiness is. When someone loves what he or she does for a living, it does not remain only work but becomes work-cum-play. if you love your work, it will make you happy. And if you are happy, you can make your better-half happy too.

If you’re a working woman start enjoying your own work, and in any  case make sure your husband enjoys his work. Your interest in his work can make a big difference to him. So start taking interest intelligently. It will go a long way in making your husband happy.

If you happen to be a housewife, learn to enjoy your household chores. When you spouse come home from the office, for the sake of your own happiness, don’t throw tantrums. Grow up and learn to solve your own problems instead of telling him about the silly little difficulties of the day.

Assuming that you are going to live for 75 years plus 0r minus 10 years and further assuming that you are going to get married in at the age of 25, you will be with your better half for 50 years. So why not be in good humour, there is a very thoughtful saying “I had the blues, because i had no shoes, until upon the street i met a man who had no feet.”  Think of all we have to be grateful for and thank god for all our boons and bounties. Think, thank and smile.

Smiling is infectious. In the beginning your better half may wonder about your motive. But don’t worry let the smile come out of your head and heart. Start whistling this helps! Think of all the pleasant friends you have. I have friends whose very thought makes me feel happy and younger. And yes, let it be engraved on the screen of your mind. “A smile is an inexpensive way to make your better-half happy.”

Expose your children to as many situations as you can, Let them go on excursions with friends, learn swimming, go rock-climbing and river-rafting, loin the National Cadet Crops and social work groups in school and college.

No matter which profession you are in, don’t push your children into it if they are reluctant. A frame can define or limit your children’s potential. Provideyour children with the necessary paints and brushes but let them find a canvas that fits their personalities.

Many parents hang on to their children for too long and then it becomes too late. Don’t tie your children to your apron-strings. Let them pursue whatever they are interested in- medicine, publishing, catering, engineering, law, fine arts, farming, or running a business.

Each one of us has a goal to be happy in life. I sincerely believe that you should get happiness out of your work or you’ll never know what happiness is. When someone loves what he or she does for a living, it does not remain only work but becomes work-cum-play. if you love your work, it will make you happy. And if you are happy, you can make your better-half happy too.

If you’re a working woman start enjoying your own work, and in any  case make sure your husband enjoys his work. Your interest in his work can make a big difference to him. So start taking interest intelligently. It will go a long way in making your husband happy.

If you happen to be a housewife, learn to enjoy your household chores. When you spouse come home from the office, for the sake of your own happiness, don’t throw tantrums. Grow up and learn to solve your own problems instead of telling him about the silly little difficulties of the day.