DR. ALKA KALRA'S BLOG
3 Questions for Powerful Parenting through Communication
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” — Mark Twain.Communication is a very important aspect of parenting. Communication between parents and children happens all the time. Therefore, it has the most impact on children.Whatever is being communicated to the children; has a direct impact on their emotional and physical well being. ...
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3 Effective Strategies to Deal with Stage Fright
‘It’s the biggest day of your life and probably the scariest one too. There are hundreds of people in the audience who have gathered just to hear your speech. You finally step on the stage and hear a huge round of applause. Your speech starts; people are clapping and responding well. Suddenly, you fumble and forget your next few words and everything turns ...
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4 Ways to Overcome Phobias and Fears
Do we really know what is a phobia? It is something that makes us nervous; when we get those butterflies in our stomach. It makes us feel different from what we normally feel. Abnormal breathing, sweaty palm, and jittery feeling are just some common signs. The body is not in our control and it is reacting to some unknown factor and that is defined as the true state of phobia. ...
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4 Ways to Help Kids Become ‘Thinkers’
Are you a worried about your developing some analytical and creative skills? There are easy ways to help raise a creative child. From endless games and opportunities, to asking interesting questions of your child, you’ll be surprised how easy it is to develop creative thinking among young children. ...
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3 Tips on How to Improve Your Child’s Memory
Memory plays an extremely important role in our daily lives. It helps us retrieve and organize information in our brains. It is very important to work on improving and enhancing the memory of young kids. It is during this time that kids pick up and learn things faster. Using the right techniques and tricks to improve their memory goes a long way in helping them recall information later on in life. ...
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Holiday Camp Venues & Nearby Areas
Want to know which holiday camp venue is nearest to your area? ...
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Does your child suffer from keeping his focus and concentration?
Focus and concentration issues may prevent your child from achieving their potential. Difficulties with attention can affect all aspects of your child’s life. Each child’s attention span varies that are caused by underlying factors and can affect the different life aspects such as school performance, relationships, emotional control, and memory retention. The good news is, … Continue reading "Does your child suffer from keeping his focus and concentration?" ...
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Stress Management During Exams
As exam season nears, a wave of anxiety spreads through not only students but parents and teachers as well. It is extremely necessary to manage this stress correctly as it can affect students adversely. Dr. Alka Kalra, a renowned CDA Licensed Educational-Psychologist shares a few tips for students, parents and teachers alike on how to … Continue reading "Stress Management During Exams" ...
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How to defeat the anxiety that is building within you, while you are at home during this terrifying COVID- 19 period?
At this point of time it is important to stay physically fit. And I strongly believe that it is essential to keep yourself mentally fit and have an emotional balance to keep yourself physically fit. However, I totally understand that, these days having an emotional balance and keeping ourselves mentally fit is a greater challenge … Continue reading "How to defeat the anxiety that is building within you, while you are at home during this terrifying COVID- 19 period?" ...
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HELP YOUR ADOLESCENT TO HANDLE THEIR EMOTIONS WHILE THEY ARE GOING THROUGH MOOD SWINGS AT HOME.
We all know that adolescent is the age of stress and storms, popularly known as “teenage”. So having a growing adolescent at home, can be challenging at times. You might have often observed that your growing teenager might suddenly display a loss of appetite or be withdrawn or may be have excessive or too little … Continue reading "HELP YOUR ADOLESCENT TO HANDLE THEIR EMOTIONS WHILE THEY ARE GOING THROUGH MOOD SWINGS AT HOME." ...
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First Aid For Emotional Well-being
In today’s world we all are mainly concerned about our physical well-being and we assure that we actually address it at top priority. For instance a back pain or a toothache will be addressed immediately. However, in this process our emotional well-being takes a backseat. Things that worries you or has probably disturbed does keep … Continue reading "First Aid For Emotional Well-being " ...
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REBOOT YOUR HAPPINESS
We are in the middle of tremendous stress and the COVID-19 situation has visibly changed our lives. Yet, there are cases of positivity, success and recovery blooming all around us. As the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed proclaimed that ‘we will win’ in a tweet this morning, … Continue reading "REBOOT YOUR HAPPINESS" ...
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“HAPPY TEACHERS MAKE HAPPY CHILDREN.”
During this crucial period, I would like to highlight how teachers around the world are facing challenges with the unprecedented and new mode of delivering even the most formal education through the internet. Teachers are always given a huge amount of respect across various cultures and how them being happy results in an entire community … Continue reading "“HAPPY TEACHERS MAKE HAPPY CHILDREN.”" ...
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Detox Your Subconscious.
In the era of COVID-19, we are all facing mixed emotions. Some of us are stressed and anxious whilst others are helpless and have lost hope due to the situations around them. The pressing question is what can be done and how one can be trained to be better off in the long run. While … Continue reading "Detox Your Subconscious." ...
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Socialization Need Not Stop – Find New Ways.
Nowadays, most of us are working virtually and the ‘human-factor’ has almost escaped our lives. We are no longer used to the usual lives of meeting and greeting our colleagues or peers and doing things ‘together’ in a physical space. This might impact our mental health and while we are going through these times of … Continue reading "Socialization Need Not Stop – Find New Ways." ...
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ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE
Our attitude around every aspect of our lives influences how we experience living. Similarly, always bearing an idea of gratitude in our hearts and minds is imperative. If we focus on the things we have and constantly remind ourselves to appreciate them, the grief around the things that we do not have can be easily … Continue reading "ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE" ...
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Multiple Intelligence
Conversations about intelligence are a common part of our daily lives. Historically, we have all tried to determine how intelligent us and the others around us are. However, breaking down the abstract idea of intelligence gives rise to many other questions. For instance, most intelligence tests are only confined to verbal and logical reasoning. Yet, … Continue reading "Multiple Intelligence" ...
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The Magic Of Law Of Attraction
There are multiple laws around us. Some are physics and others, government. Yet, we have an exciting law that is always within our reach: the law of attraction. The law is simple: one can get anything under the sun in their life if they manifest for it. It’s an amazing science. Whatever the human mind … Continue reading "The Magic Of Law Of Attraction" ...
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Behavior Modification using Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
An ABA practitioner observes behavior in the natural environment (classroom, home, public places etc.), to identify why the behavior occurs (known as antecedent) and what happens after the behavior (known as consequence). They also analyze what are the environmental factors that are responsible for a behavior to occur OR prevent certain behaviors from occurring. A consequence is the result that happens after the behavior. If the behavior is a desired behavior a reinforcer is introduced as a consequence for the behavior to reoccur. The key for effective intervention is to identify problem behaviors which need to be changed and which reinforers are acting for reoccurrence of behavior. ...
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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Do you have a child in your class who seems to listen but does not follow instructions? And is always on the move?
Are you confused why are some of the students not behaving the way they should?
Does your child throw tantrums and you do not know how to handle it?
Is your child unable to make friends?
These are all behaviors and any behavior can be changed or modified. The entire science of understanding and modifying the behavior is called Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), popularly also known as ABA therapy. It is the most scientifically driven procedure for behavior modification. Here are some tips to understand and help modification of behaviors. ...
Dealing with sibling rivalry
WHAT IS SIBLING RIVALRY?
Sibling rivalry is the protectiveness, opposition and struggle between siblings. It is a concern for almost all parents of two or more kids. Problems often start right after the birth of the second child. Sibling rivalry usually continues throughout childhood and can be very frustrating and stressful to parents.
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Anger Management
This has been a topic of concern for years. How do we manage our anger? Why do we need to manage our anger? What does anger do? Do I really need to manage my anger? Am I the one who gets angry very often? Today, we will try to better understand this topic and more … Continue reading "Anger Management" ...
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HAPPINESS FORMULA
Happiness is something that each human being is expecting in their life and the more we have the more we want happiness in our lives. Today I would like to talk about the formula to obtain happiness. What is happiness? How can we be happy? Can we get happiness from somewhere or are we born … Continue reading "HAPPINESS FORMULA" ...
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Best Ways To Prevent Bullying In School
School is a place where we send the children to get their education that moulds a child for life time. Bullying is a process in which we actually harm and humiliate another person and this is done consciously. Bullying is actually a very criminal offence and sometimes it can be extremely harmful. Bullying can happen … Continue reading "Best Ways To Prevent Bullying In School" ...
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How to deal with Breakup?
Well, February is the month of love, Valentine’s day has just gone by a lot of celebration, a lot of gifts, but some of us are probably still sitting, sulking, having remorse feeling about the break ups, or the relationships which did not work. Well I’m not here only to talk about the romantic relationships, … Continue reading "How to deal with Breakup?" ...
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