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My daughter 18 years old always hide something like talks in phone secretly. Lies what’s happening. How to handle I don’t know? And never believe in god. And when I tell her something she acts like she knows everything, she thinks herself smart. What to do in this teenage please help me out? I think you understood what I’m trying to say.🧢🫠📱

The first thing is to take your teenage daughter into confidence. She must feel that you are her friend and not an administrator or a

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Alok da, Mother has said never scold a child , now I never scolded my son now he is 11. Due to this two things have happened one he is on his adolescence and he just does not listen like if I tell him to pick up his clothes or put his shoes in its place from the living room now when I sternly tell, pick it up right now after 4-5 reminders then only the work is done and on the other side since he is not use to scolding at home if he faces a strict teacher or some bully in school he starts crying … so I know Ma can never be wrong but please advise in this situation 😥

The Mother was not against being firm to help the child form good habits and discipline. Scolding, especially with anger distorts a child’s consciousness. He

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Alok da this is problem with many parents not just us end of the day me and my husband are exhausted but our son is full of energy. He just does not want to sleep though we have a bed time but he keeps on delaying it and he just does not get tired in spite of him doing sports and going to school… so we are sleep deprived due to this situation. What should we do😥? 

Yes children are full of energy and they absorb a lot of energy from everything around them. It needs to be channelised as well as

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Alok da, since last 15 days we are struggling to make our 11 year old sleep in his own room, though he sleeps in his room every other night he come and sleep with us, we have tried everything but he wants me to make him sleep and even after that he gets up and wants me to put him to sleep again in the middle of the night, we feel it’s high time that he needs to sleep on his own, Please advice😳.

Yes children should begin to sleep by themselves by 5. In India, due to stronger emotional bonding and family attachment it takes longer. In any

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In yesterday’s question on marriage where parents emotionally blackmailing their child to get married you said it is extremely selfish act at its core but they also used to tell us like we are also becoming selfish by not fulfilling their wish. In such a scenario we really don’t have answer answer and such thoughts comes like are we also acting selfishly? Please guide whose demand is valid here😥?

There is a fundamental right given by the Divine to make our free choices and suffer the good or bad consequences. That is the whole

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Alok da, the other day my son came from school and he was so irritated he had to do a write up on Mahatma Ghandhi and he just did not want to, he said I have had it ahimsa and all that, then I remember that when I was a child I myself was irritated to study about him, all that was do boring and then why son asked me why is he even called the father of the nation ? And I know studying ghandhi ji is so boring oh these dharam karam ki baatein as a teenager I could not relate to him, he is not like Shivaji or Rama or Krishna or Sri Aurobindo.. what should I tell him…🤔?

You can tell him that everyone has his own ideas and so did Gandhi ji have his own. As far as his ideas go, they

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