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<p style="text-align:right;">All of us as parents want the best for our children. They should have the best of results and maximum achievements. Somewhere in this race of life, we may forget that we need to raise our children to be good human beings. The focus is just on studies, careers and wealth creation.<br>For our kids to excel we first need to raise our bar to be the best version of ourselves. We need to ensure that our children develop character and values, life skills and resilience to weather the storms that they might come across.&nbsp;<br>Haven’t we come across children with super IQs but having miserable relationships or children with great potential getting messed up with drugs. Or an academically brilliant child but suddenly losing grades and interest in the same during the crucial high school level, or the child who is in a career which he/she realizes he is the most unsuitable for. Or the child who does actions with his/her group of friends that you cannot accept she/he could be capable of. Or the sad incident where precious life is lost at a young age by suicide leaving the family distraught and clueless of what went wrong. Or the child who has become obese and diabetic and you don’t know how and you are helpless and perplexed. Or the loving child who goes to college and is totally cut off from parents. Or the child who is cooped up in his/her room, and it’s out of bounds for you. Or the child who is constantly on the phone.<br>We give our children privileges without being prepared to deal with the consequences or without setting ground rules. First, we give our child a phone, then we want to take it back. We give them access to the internet and then want to cancel it. We feel manipulated.&nbsp;<br>We teach a young child to cross the road before sending them to the market by themselves,&nbsp; to swim before pushing them into the deep end of the pool. We teach a child to drive before we hand him/her the keys to the car. Then why don’t we teach them more? But how do we teach them more?&nbsp;<br>When we refer to health we refer to a state of total well-being i.e.physical, mental, emotional, social and more. We are supposed to nurture the growth and development in all aspects. We need to teach them developmentally appropriate tools to take care of themselves. Sometimes we need to let them fall, in order to learn. And sometimes we have to catch them before they fall if we think their fall can be bad. We also need to shape their character and their personality and instil values,&nbsp; teach&nbsp; compassion, gratitude,&nbsp; life skills and soft skills. We also need to teach them&nbsp; how to learn from failure and to keep rising. We need to have unconditional love and at the same time teach responsibilities while bestowing rights.<br>Our parents nurtured us based on their instincts alone and our growing up was turbulent and rocky.&nbsp;<br>There were no mobiles and no internet but there were no mentors available unfortunately. Times have changed and challenges and expectations have increased manifold as well. There are miles to go before we sleep.&nbsp;<br>Therefore we have created Parents For Parents; A Parents Collective.<br>Let’s CO- ELEVATE!&nbsp;</p>
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