Day 17 - 365 Days Of Gentle Parenting - Empowering Our Kids

I was lucky to be a part of an esteemed panel discussion today at Beyond the Box , a venture by Anupama Dalmia. The event was called 'Can You Hear Me' and it was a book launch event doubled into a panel discussion with Anjali, a fellow blogger and author moderating the panel. While the other two panels were qualified child psychologists and parenting coaches, I sat there with a nervous smile with a bag full of my own parenting experiences. We had a healthy and enlightening discussion on the subject of 'Empowering our kids' The most funny part of the discussion came up towards the end about how does one deal with their kids being sad or low. Does one let them be or try to cheer them up until they look happy? While the experts had loads full of advice to deal with sad kids, I had to confess that my kids at their age, my kids do not become sad, they only become upset. And thus I have to sometimes try and solve their reasons for being sad, or just let them howl and cry for a while, and if it becomes too much to bear or if I see that it might start to affect their health, I have to become a joker to distract them and cheer them up. Listen to this episode of 365 Days of Gentle Parenting to know more about the discussion