Parenting

Watch sparrows and mynas return to your balcony with this easy summer activity for children. Learn how a shallow bowl of water can help thirsty birds survive scorching hot days.

In conversations around dowry deaths and domestic violence, one question often gets overlooked — where do boys first learn ideas about respect, power and boundaries? Experts say these lessons begin far earlier than we think. In collaboration with educators and child development experts, The Better India released a guidebook exploring how early conversations around empathy, consent, emotions and equality can shape the way boys grow into men.

Filmmaker Aditi Anand and her partner Susan Dias share what it means to build a family through adoption as a same-sex couple in India — from navigating parenthood and social perceptions to raising their son with honesty, openness, and love, while redefining what family can look like beyond conventional labels and expectations.

After their daughter’s autism diagnosis, Sumana and Anirban Dutta built Akshadhaa Foundation in Bengaluru to offer integrated therapy and parent-led care. Today, it supports nearly 2,000 children and 3,200 families and is now building an assisted living community for long-term care.

Childhood in joint families unfolds amid constant company, shared routines, and many voices shaping everyday life. From grandparents’ stories to cousins who feel like siblings, growing up in such homes builds values of care and belonging in ways that linger long after.

Written by author Archana Mohan, the children’s book ‘Extra: Extra Love, Extra Chromosome’ is mother Shivani Dhillon’s attempt to create empathetic allies for neurodiversity, and to encourage children to embrace their peers with Down Syndrome.

Summer in the 90s was about simplicity, sunshine, and screen-free joy. Now, a new generation of parents is reviving those memories with their kids — foraging in Goa's forests, painting rocks in Mumbai parks, or sharing barf ka golas in Delhi. These stories celebrate the magic of slow summers, family rituals, and nature-filled nostalgia.

From D Gukesh to Praggnanandhaa, Vaishali, Arjun Erigaisi, and Nihal Sarin, India’s chess prodigies share a common story — families who chose patience over pressure, shaping champions through quiet support and steady belief.

From the Thar Desert to Delhi, these women looked at what they inherited — poverty, abuse, abandonment, silence — and made one decision: my children will not carry this.

Agniv’s learning doesn’t follow a fixed schedule or set of lessons. It begins with small questions, like something he notices while eating, cooking, or exploring around him. His parents give him the space to follow those thoughts and see where they lead.