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About Vibha Sharma

Vibha Sharma is a freelance education management professional and a mom to three wonderful kids living in New Delhi, India. After majoring in economics, she went into University Administration following it up with a short stint in the corporate sector and since then has been passionately involved with the pre-school sector.

When she isn’t working on education solutions, she loves to relax with a good book and chill with sweet lemonade.

She can be reached at vibha11.9@gmail.com or blog.vibhasharma.com.

100+ Questions You Can Ask Your Kids That Will Make You a Better Parent

by Vibha Sharma.
(This article is part of the Positive Parenting FAQ series. Get free article updates here.)

Connection_Main_76084417“Mommy! Why can I not open my eyes when I look at the sun?

Why do I always have to sleep early, when you can stay up late?

Momma, why does the water not flow up the mountain ever?

Doesn’t the moon hate the sun for hiding it in the daytime?

Why is my hair straight and Dad’s curly?

Why can I not fly like the birds?”

Have you also had your share of the endless questions with limited unsatisfactory answers for your little ones? Did you ever think of hiding behind the couch like me seeing your little one in a questioning mode?

It’s payback time! But don’t worry! I’ll make sure it is fun for everyone!

It’s your turn to put some interesting questions to your kids. Because when you put a thoughtful question to your child, it zaps on her thinking mode automatically. And when young minds think, analyze or introspect, they learn best and grow up to be resourceful adults who can think out of the box and survive in any situation.

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20 Good Character Traits That Will Help Your Kids Grow Up to Be Happy, Successful and Loved By All

by Vibha Sharma.
(This article is part of the Building Character series. Get free article updates here.)

Good Character Traits Main PosterHave you ever had to deal with complaints from your child’s teacher about his unacceptable behavior in school? Or had to explain to her that your sweet little one has many good character traits and is usually not abusive?

If you have, you surely know how it feels.

If not, let me tell you — it’s NOT a walk in the park. As a matter of fact, it is heart breaking and fills you with a gut wrenching sadness that makes you wonder where you could have gone wrong on your parenting journey.

It was dispersal time. I had gone to pick my son from school.  His teacher stopped me to tell me that Jay somehow had managed to get into a scuffle with his friends and ended up beating one of the boys black and blue. She gave me a firm warning about Jay’s unacceptable behavior letting him off fairly lightly just this time as this was his first episode.

I left her assured with promises to talk to him about it.

I was reeling. Seriously, did he (could he?) really do that? And why???

Well… It took me quite some time, through his sobs and anger, to sweet-talk a few sentences out of him. When I heard them though, they staggered me.

Suddenly, it was my turn to choke, with emotion.
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