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THE ART OF CREATING BALANCE

During the past few years, the weather has shown an unexpected fluctuation. There is a sudden significant increase in temperature for a few days and then an unanticipated yet noticeable dip. It starts raining any time and not necessarily during the season only.   Well, nature’s extremity subtly nudged me to observe the lack of balance and inclination towards extremes in various matters around me. When it comes to the emotional quotient of children, these days, I observe that there is a perceptible absence of balance. They have been seen experiencing emotions in extremes. At one moment, they are extremely happy and at the other they become angry and aggressive and start questioning everything around them. As I have raised this issue, I cannot avoid the classic case of extremes that I have often discussed in my previous articles and i.e. the one of extreme parenting. What I can observe these days is that parents are either over- involved (helicopter parenting) or not involved at all