Inside the Mind of a Creative Genius

Today was a very special day for me. I got a chance to spend almost three hours with a great music composer, Rahul Ranade (www.rahulranade.com).

Rahul is best known for his music but he has acted, directed and created in marathi and hindi. He is one of the founders of GRIPS theatre in India.

Creativity

One Step Solution to Creativity.......and Boredom

"The Spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquillity" is what William Wordsworth said about poetry.

Creativity does not get any better than composing a poem. It involves deep processing of a thought, experience and emotion and its expression in such a way that it not only strikes a cord in the reader but does it in a musical melodious way..

Most creativity actually fulfils all these criteria of beauty and usefulness.

Basic Rules of Discipline

Recently I read a book - "Supernanny" by Jo Frost.

Jo Frost did a great show on Channel Four in the UK few years ago. I happend to see it and was impressed by her warm yet no nonsense approach to disciplining kids.

You should buy her book if you are one of the troubled parent. But remember, badly behaved children mostly are oucome of some issue in parenting, so be prepared to look at yourself and other adults in the house before you point a finger at kids.

Here is a summary of Jo's ten golden rules as given in her book - SUPERNANNY

Single Mother and a not so single son

Being Single Mother

Varsha (name changed),
visited me thrice in a week. This is not how frequently I see my
patients. Unless there is a very volatile situation, patients need to
see me once in two weeks or once a month.

Conversation with Aamir Khan

Conversation with Aamir
Khan

Yesterday (21/02/2012), I
had a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet Aamir Khan at his
residence. I was invited to talk about the work I do to prevent child
sex abuse. Aamir Khan came to know about my video on youtube (
www.youtube.com/drbhooshan)
and developed interest in that work.

Secret

Will you allow me a
secret?

Have you ever had a
secret? Known to just you and nobody else. How did that make you
feel? Proud, naughty, scared, ashamed or nice?

Walmiki's Message for Us

Walmiki's Message for Us

The epic story of
“Ramayan” is held as a guiding light by most of us Indians. We
often refer to Ram as the most ideal man and look at his life story
as an inspiration.

Safeguarding Children from Sex Abuse

Introduction -

In news media there are often stories of children facing sex abuse. We are all shocked, scared and worried about our kids safety after each case surfaces in media.

Child Sex Abuse is a reality and we can teach our children some basic safety rules for their protection. These rules are simple, easy to learn and even a four year old can learn to protect himself / herself effectively.

Happy Diwali to all readers

Hi Everybody,

Wish you all a very Happy Diwali and a Great New Year.

Make sure that your kids are safe around fire crackers. My family has decided to do away with noisy fire crackers this year. We plan to use only visually spectacular stuff.

Buying crackers was an exercise in budgeting and maths. Kids did not like it one bit, but you can not please everybody.

I hope to write more regularly this year. Let me know what you want on this blog.

I have tried a new minimalist look. What do you think?

Moving Continents and Cities too.

Moving Cities / Continents

Last week in a get together,
a friend got talking. He was very worried about his children's future in India.
He was re-thinking about his move to India from US.

Main concerns were- quality
of education, effect of other children's behaviour, change in accent, health
and physical environment (in city).

His tone was of worry and I
could empathies with him, having made a move to India more than a year ago.

Child Psychology, The Real Deal

Musings of a Child Psychiatrist

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