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7 NGOs For Happier Children in India
Children are said to be blessings from the Almighty and indeed bring great happiness in a couple's married life. However, trying circumstances such as disease or poverty can sometimes drive parents to a state when they fail to help their kids. Childcare NGOs help such parents and children pull through in times of illness, financial distress or emotional pain.
Parenthood doesn't come without its share of anxiety. Both children and parents may face difficulties in managing certain phases of development. Your child may suffer from a learning disability or a distress situation like physical/sexual abuse or mental trauma. You may also feel helpless spotting a troubled child in your neighbourhood or one afflicted by child labour! Professional help from top NGOs in India can make dealing with this much easier.
List of Top 7 Childcare NGOs for Kids in India
1. Child-Line India
One of the most prominent NGOs in India, Child-line focuses on child safety and protection through a 24 hours helpline with exceptional turn-around time. Child-line supports children in distress like abuse, trafficking, child-marriage and child labor and also offers expert support to parents of children who suffer from disabilities, substance abuse, poverty, conflict with law and health or nutrition related problems.
2. Smile Foundation
This NGO has been doing exceptional work for the past 13 years providing healthcare and education for underprivileged children. Parents can reach out to them directly or via school authorities if they seek assistance for their child's physical and mental growth.
3. CRY
CRY or ‘Child Rights and You’ focuses on child education, healthcare, nutrition and special learning needs. The NGO has been fighting for children’s rights through evocative campaigns based on various growth and developmental needs of a child.
4. Samveda
Samveda offers special treatment and training facilities for mentally challenged students, dyslexic children and kids with fine motor disabilities. This is significant in a world where a whopping 20% of children suffer from one form of learning disability or the other! Samveda endeavours to equip such kids with a skillset that can get them absorbed into main-stream educational institutes.
5. Make a Difference (MAD)
With the sole objective of ensuring child-equality everywhere, the MAD organization organizes thematic campaigns for child development. Currently, MAD offers English language training to under-privileged children to bring them up on the same platform as children from regular homes.
6. Pratham
One of the oldest NGOs to help children in the country, Pratham has been working with children of Mumbai slums for the past 20 years. The child-education campaigns run by Pratham have changed the lives of many underprivileged children and given them an opportunity to change the living conditions of their families.
7. Nanhi Kali
As the name suggests, this NGO is dedicated towards working for underprivileged girl-children by providing them material support and educational guidance. Nanhi Kali also sends a yearly progress report to donors and sponsors of their beneficiaries.
It is absolutely normal for parents to feel helpless trying to help their child in a difficult life situation or while going through turbulence in their own lives. Taking support from experienced counselors and experts working with these NGOs for children can help you resolve the challenges you are facing. A little help can go a long way in making parenting much more delightful. Read more
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5 Bollywood Moms Share Their Top Nutrition Secrets For Kids!
All the health experts and dietitians of the world aside, there's someone who knows nutrition better than anyone else. Whom are we talking about? Moms! They have an uncanny ability to feed their kids yummy yet nutritious food day after day, and figure out exactly what is in their child's best interest. Ditto for our Bollywood moms. Just like the rest of us, our filmy mammas also struggle with tantrums and try their best to make meal-time as healthy and interesting as possible. What exactly is their secret formula?
We have brought for you assorted secrets from five Bollywood moms. These tips tell you just how they go about giving their children the adequate nutrition. Considering meal-time with kids remains a perpetual struggle, what with the young ones always attracted to the wrong kind of food, these secrets can actually help you handle that. When it comes to children, every little help counts!
5 Bollywood Moms Share Top Nutrition Secrets For Their Kids!
1. Aishwarya Rai
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The best part about this Mommy's nutrition secret is this – simplicity! She believes in keeping everyday food light, simple and quintessentially Indian. Developing the habit of eating wholesome, simple food everyday makes sure our kids continue this lifestyle even after they grow up. This has an additional advantage too – you get to maintain a healthy weight even without intense exercise. In fact, these Indian food swaps have been proven to promote weight loss! However, Aish does believe in indulging occasionally – in Thai or Mexican food – to expose her daughter to varied tastes.
Top Mommy Tip: “Aaradhya is being trained to eat ghar ka khana. Our food habits are simple – we enjoy having the typical roti-sabji-daal-rice combo. Indian cuisine is so rich and varied, we do not feel the need to try out Thai or Mexican or Italian.”
2. Shilpa Shetty
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One of the fittest Bollywood moms we know, Shilpa has a simple yet very important food secret – hogging is not nutrition! As moms, we often go overboard with our children's food; it never seems enough. Shilpa believes in a nutritious, adequate diet that is also portion-controlled. She also incorporates in her kitchen cooking secrets she learnt from her mom. We think this tip about the cooking base is a perfect winner.
Top Mommy Tip: “My mum is extremely aware of the cardiac problems in my family, so she makes sure we have a lot of vegetable oil, and she replaces coconut milk with normal milk, which is lower in cholesterol. We have a lot of masala at home. We go easy on it though, to make it easier on the digestive system, and to bring out the taste of the vegetables.”
3. Raveena Tandon
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This Mommy believes in starting the day with brain-power! Breakfast for her kids is a filling, nutritious meal that usually comprises milk, banana, eggs, whole grain toast, oatmeal, yoghurt and fruit and nuts. Isn't the very thought refreshing? For the remaining meals, Raveena tries to introduce vegetables in different textures, colours and shapes – variety is the spice of life, after all! She also makes sure the kids are away from oily/fried food, stuff that has maida and aerated drinks. This may seem challenging to do but instilling the right habits early can get the job done.
Top Mommy Tip: “Generally, I serve them one interesting dish with two boring dishes. Do not solely rely on sneaking vegetables into every dish. While this may seem like a good tactic, if used regularly, it will backfire. Your kids will think of vegetables as something so awful they that need to be camouflaged!”
4. Malaika Arora
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Our very own fitness role-model brilliantly replicates the tradition at home – her kids know exactly what food is and isn't safe! Children adore street food and outside food, and if truth be told, it is extremely difficult to monitor this. Malaika's son, for instance, is a huge fan of South Indian food and pasta. What Malaika does is take additional effort to teach her kids to identify places that are safe to buy food from - considering hygiene, preparation of food, and ingredients used. Also, she is a strong believer in regular meal times. Not only does this maintain a healthy metabolism rate but also discourages kids from unhealthy snacking.
Top Mommy Tip: “There’s always a special sauce with a dish. I even try and add new ingredients to the food so that it becomes tastier. (I also) serve meals only at the dining table and make sure he doesn’t eat alone or while watching television.”
5. Karisma Kapoor
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How do you define a lucky Mommy? Someone whose kids love her cooking right from the outset! Karishma's kids love the food she makes, especially dal chaawal and bhindi, but not so much the baingan and karela! To counter this dislike towards veggies like broccoli and carrots, she cuts them in different shapes and serves them with dips. She even tries this for toast – using cookie cutters to cut out hearts and stars. Always works with kids! Another tip she strongly advocates is serving children every three to four hours. Frequent eating ensures less crankiness as well!
Top Mommy Tip: “To make them eat uninteresting khaana, I tell them stories while they are eating. I don’t deprive them of anything. So I generally treat them to junk food over the weekend. But I make sure they don’t over-indulge.”
Bravo, moms! In today's crazy lifestyle, food and nutrition is more important than ever before. Developing good eating habits early in life and creating a beautiful balance between health and taste isn't easy – but moms do it in style. There's a reason Ma Ke Haath Ka Khaana enjoys the cult status it does! Read more
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5 Celeb Hairstyles to Sport When it Rains
Say goodbye to your hair blues with these celebrity style hair makeovers that are pretty and practical at the same time. With the strands in the right place, rest assured about making a natty statement whenever you walk out - yes, even if it rains!
Dreading the untimely rains and the havoc they'll cause your hair? Help is at hand. Read on for some celebrity inspired hairstyles that'll help you weather the monsoons groovily. Take a look at these interesting celebrity hairstyles that will make glances come your way even through your raincoat, umbrella or a torrential downpour.
Top Celebrity Style Hair Makeovers For Monsoon
1. Chloe Grace Moretz
All you need to look good on a day with grey clouds and non-stop pitter patter is to seal your locks with the goodness of a leave-in conditioner. Post that, divide your hair into two portions, twist them neatly and secure them in a smooth bun; don’t forget to fix it with bobby pins. This pretty look inspired by Chloe will stay across the day!
2. Jennifer Lawrence's Braided Bun
Celebrity hairstyles like the smartly braided bun sported by Jennifer Lawrence, serves as a better version of the messy bun that you make in a rush. Beat the monsoon blues by pulling back your hair into a decent looking ponytail, braid the same and twist with bobby pins to give a well-secured look. If you wish to carry the style further, roll your fingers through the hair on your temples don the ultimate, ‘I am ready for the monsoons!’ disheleved look.
3. Moss it up!
Hey, if you just love the way Kate Moss flaunts her crowning glory as it pours cats and cats, you can get the same natural look for yourself. Split your hair into two sections and use your .5-inch curling iron to get a beachy appeal. Retain the look by curbing the urge to run your fingers through your hairdo, and strut out in style.
4. Top it up like Kate Hudson
This celeb-inspired hairstyle will bring back memories of air hostesses or amiable looking oldish secretaries, you decide! Yes, you can't go wrong with this Hudson kind of top-knot that sits prettily on your head; even on the rainiest of days, holding frizziness and unruly strands firmly in place. This hairstyle will become a tad casual by letting a few strands loose. After all, you need to look wild too!
5. Emma’s style
Okay, we need not tell you how cool Emma Watson can look; especially where the handlings of errant locks are concerned. Regardless of whether you sport curly, straight, long or short hair, simply look for ways of enhancing the texture and look of your hair (think dry shampoo), and use bobby pins to keep half of it in place as the other portion hangs loose. This chic look can be accentuated by using metallic pins in pop colours.
With your neatly packed celebrity-like hair in place, you can look forward to stepping out confidently this monsoon. Look elegant, look in control, look rain-ready; you deserve it. Instead of fretting about messy hair, frizzled locks, or styles that just don’t seem right, just go ahead and try these celebrity inspired hairstyles for rainy season; you'll be surprised with the results! Read more
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Care like the Creator - Our babies need to be cared for just like the Creator cares for all beings.
The Creator or God as many refer Him, cares for each one of us very, very patiently. He knows the ways, he can do activities much faster than we can. For Him everything can be done simply in the snap of a finger. Still, He chooses to wait patiently. He waits for us to learn things at our own pace. Similarly, our baby needs to learn things on their own at their own pace. We as adults can do things swiftly, be it feeding them, playing with them or simply holding an object. We just want to get things done.. like a to do list - tick, tick, tick. We should understand that if we do things for them -
1) They would never derive satisfaction from it;
2) They would learn dependency on us and
3) They would give up too easily.
As a result in the long run, they may turn out to be a dissatisfied and depressed person. After all, what is important? Our to do list now or our child's character development in the long run? Life is a bed of roses but with thorns as a by product. We need to teach them to remove the thorns on their own at a very early age. Early age impressions last a lifetime. So how do we do it? Simply let them observe you. You need not instruct them anything unless necessary. Simply let them observe and then take the back seat, change the role. Now you become the observer. They learn superfast and you will be amazed to see how your little one has grasped each and every move of yours according to his capacity. Research has shown that a child until the age of 7 is taking in maximum simply by observing. That is all he does. Only observes and learns. He doesn't learn by instruction but by observations.
Yes, there are times when we need to take an action because something may be dangerous for our child. We need to say no, we need to stop him from eating wrong or going on a dangerous path. So we need to go against our child's will and take certain measures. No need for any guilt because that's what the Creator does. He too brings certain situations in our life that we do not like but it's simply so that we can grow to be a better person. But this strict behaviour can be limited to only dangerous times that is not very often. And you will know what to do, when. Trust yourself!
So the gist is - Simply take lessons from the Creator to care for your baby!! Baby care is a gift given by God to all mothers. All we need to do is to tune in to that inner voice. It's an inner intuition that tells us what is right for our child :) Read more
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Q. If a diabetic mother is pregnent chance of baby having diabetes?
Rashmi
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A. No it is a very common thing with women to be seen that they are diabetic or they have thyroid during the time of pregnancy but that does not mean your child is also going to have the same problem as these things are not contagious you are not going to pass it on to your child during pregnancy so don’t worry about it
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Q. New born baby is not poop more than 1 week? How to recover that
Dr Vandan H Kumar
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A. Stool pattern of small children changes from time to time.
It can be more than 7 times per day also and sometimes the child will not pass stool for 10 days also.
The most important thing is the consistency of the stool and if it is Semi solid to solid or semi liquid then there is no need to worry about the frequency axs well as colour as well as the smell of the stool
Also straining and crying while passing urine and stool is very normal.
the crying of the child is due to colic pain and not due to constipationx
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Q. hi, I'm 4th month pregnant. my last period date was jan 7th. I was asked to take iron and calcium supplements. after started with those supplements, my body's temperature started increasing. how do I get rid of this. can I stop taking these supplements?
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A. there is no relation taking calcium and iron and body temperature. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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Q. 11Weeks on going and the problem is continuously vomiting, body&headache pain.
Dr Ghouse
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A. please check the temperature can be a viral infection. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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Q. #asktheexpert
why are my vomitings not stopping even in 5th month of my pregnancy. and constant headaches.
Dr Ghouse
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A. this is seen in some people which my continue in second trimester also. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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Q. is it normal to have 2 dominant follicles in Right ovary? Today is my D8 and the size of both the follicles are 20x18mm and 19x18 mm Is it normal.
and left ovary follicles 12x18mm.and ET size 7.89
pls advice
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A. if it is induced one then there can be chances. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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