London: A study in Britain has found one third of parents regretting having given their children mobile phones, computers, and games consoles. According to the study commissioned by Hobbycraft, a chain of arts and crafts superstores, parents fear about the harm to youngsters' patience, creative and social skills as well as to quality time means 34 per cent of them yearn to take the gadgets back from their children, Daily...
10:47 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Toronto: It's a parent's worst nightmare. Their child doesn't come home one evening and is missing for several days. When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her smartphone for clues using an app called Family Tracker that helped track his location. It is one of several apps that allow parents to track the whereabouts of their children. 'You can see where your...
12:36 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The parents-in-law of a widow, expelled out of her matrimonial house after her husband's death in 2010, has been asked by a Delhi court to pay Rs 10,000 as monthly maintenance to her and her minor son. Metropolitan Magistrate Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal gave the order holding that a man's widow is entitled to claim maintenance from her father and mother-in-laws. Accordingly, the court asked the woman's father-in-law, an...
09:09 AM, Apr 15, 2012
The grandparents of the children met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday to convey their concerns. CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat accompanied them. ...
05:53 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: Anger turned to amazement for 90-year-old Savitri Desai when her son Ravi came to Chinchpokli railway station to take her back home yesterday. Although she was apprehensive of going back home out of fear of harassment by the family members, she relented after her son's assurance of proper behaviour. "I am glad to be with my family and I am grateful to all the commuters who took care of...
01:42 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The row involving the custody of the 2 Indian children in Norway continues to drag on. The children's grandparents along with CPM Politburo leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna at his residence in Delhi. A Norway court set March 23 as the date for next hearing in the case that sparked a diplomatic row. The family is trying to step up pressure on...
11:20 AM, Feb 28, 2012
So Aishwarya Rai has refused to keep a nanny for her baby! That's quite something, I must say. For when you cannot hire a nanny ...
02:58 PM, Feb 21, 2012
BANGALORE: Soaring real estate prices in Bangalore may be burning holes in the pockets of prospective buyers, but it seems to be bringing families together. Couples who had chosen to live in nuclear families after marriage, are now coming back to their parents, all thanks to skyrocketing realty prices. According to realty intelligence firms, prospective investors now prefer to cut the expenses by living under the same roof with their...
09:18 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Madrid: Tennis great Arantxa Sanchez Vicario has blamed her parents for losing an estimated 45 million ($60 million) in career earnings through mismanagement. The 40-year-old Sanchez Vicario let loose against her whole family in a book of memoirs published on Tuesday. She says she does not speak to her parents or her three siblings. She says her parents were obsessed with her succeeding in a career which netted four Grand...
03:55 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Mumbai: "We moved from blackboards to interactive boards and from there to laptops and now, it is the iPad2." (Vandana Lulla, Director, Podar International School) The government may be patting itself on the back for creating the world's cheapest, Android-based tablet Aakash at not more than Rs 3,000, but the homegrown gizmo is clearly not the Apple of this posh city school's eye. The middle and high school education at...
12:37 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: On the eve of Daughters Day, the matrimonial website Shaadi.com had conducted a survey to gauge the acceptance of a girl child in modern India. The survey which received over 6000 responses from the website members across India highlighted the preference for a girl child and the maturity of the next-generation Indian parents. When asked if they would prefer a girl or a boy child, over 50% of...
03:30 PM, Sep 23, 2011
London: The style of parenting is one of the strongest influences on how much alcohol a child will drink as a teenager and young adult, a new study has found. Think tank Demos found out that bad parenting made children eight times more likely to become binge drinkers at 16 years, and twice as likely to drink excessively when they were 34. Researchers analysed data from more than 15,000 children...
04:49 PM, Aug 29, 2011
London: Earning less seems to be a blessing in disguise -- the richer people become the lesser they care for their elderly parents, a new study has found. The study of 2,790 American men and women found that increasing of wages leads to a significant drop in the amount of time people spend in helping their parents with household chores, errands and transport. According to the research, for every ten...
03:25 PM, Aug 25, 2011
London: A parliamentarian in Britain is urging Prime Minister David Cameron to allow parents to smack their kids as he maintains that state interference in family life is damaging home discipline. Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming has said parental authority had been undermined by years of legislation including confusion over smacking children, Daily Express reported. With riots proving discipline had broken down, Hemming said, it was time for the government...
12:24 PM, Aug 22, 2011
Beijing: In a bid to offer sex education to primary school students for the first time, China has introduced a text book that has gone overboard with controversial illustrations and descriptions that has left parents fuming. The textbook titled 'Growing Steps' has many controversial passages and appears with illustrations for students aged six to seven years old. There was widespread concern among parents over such blatant description bordering on pornography,...
12:23 PM, Aug 20, 2011
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