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Understanding yourself as a parent

Understanding yourself as a parent

Understanding Your Role as a Parent

Explore your values, emotions, and parenting style to better understand the kind of parent you want to be.

Work, Marriage & Kids.

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Author Ruchira Darda

Ruchira Darda 13 Jun 2026

Work, Marriage & Kids.
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Work, Marriage & Kids.

Understanding yourself as a parent

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Work, Marriage & Kids.

Work Marriage and Kids with Mokshada Patil

Inner Child Healing for Parents: How Your Past Shapes Your Parenting

This is inner child work and it may be the most underutilized, most transformative work a parent can do.

Parenting Triggers: Why Your Child's Tantrum Makes You Lose Control

This is what parenting experts call being triggered. And understanding it is one of the most transformative things you can do for yourself and your children.

How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids: A Guide to Parent Emotional Regulation

This guide is not here to shame you for yelling. It's here to help you understand why it happens and give you practical, science-backed tools so it happens less.

How to Transition to Conscious Parenting When You Were Raised Differently

You watched how you were raised perhaps with rigid rules, emotional distance, or a "toughen up" mentality and you promised yourself your children would have something different. More warmth. More understanding. A home where they could actually talk to you.

Authoritarian vs. Gentle Parenting: Which One Are You Actually Practicing?

Most parents want to raise confident, emotionally healthy, well-behaved children. But here's the uncomfortable truth many of us are practicing a parenting style we think we've left behind.

Breastfeeding vs Formula Feeding: The Complete, Honest Guide for Indian Parents in 2026

A balanced, judgement-free guide covering breastfeeding, formula feeding, and everything in between - for every Indian mother, regardless of how she chooses to feed her baby.

When Did I Stop Being Me?

If this is landing somewhere inside you right now - if there is a small, quiet recognition happening as you read this - then this is your article.

Why Emotional Regulation Is the Key to Better Parenting

You promised yourself you wouldn't shout today. And then the school bag got left behind. Again. The homework wasn't done. Again. The sibling fight broke out at exactly the wrong moment. Again.

The Emotional Rollercoaster of Trying to Conceive Nobody Warns You About

I thought once we stopped using birth control, a baby would come. Nobody told me I'd spend nights crying, feeling broken, and wondering what's wrong with me.

Parent Growth: The Child Who Quietly Raises Us

Parenting is often described as raising a child. But somewhere between sleepless nights, unfinished meals, emotional breakdowns, and little hugs, parents slowly begin growing too. This blog is about the silent emotional transformation that happens inside every parent — the lessons children teach us about patience, love, healing, and becoming softer human beings.

Can Women Do Strength Training During Pregnancy?

The moment pregnancy is confirmed, everything starts to feel different. You begin to think more carefully about your daily routine. Things that once felt normal—like exercise, lifting weights, or even simple physical activity—suddenly feel like something you need to question.

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