Articles On Mindful Parenting
It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~ Joyce Maynard
Parenting Strategies Involve These Steps
Awareness
What children crave, fear and wish you knew. Who is an ideal parent and why can’t we all be one?
Education
Why children rebel, what they teach us and how can we help our children reach their highest potential.
Empowerment
In this Digital Age, what are the strategies to ensure we are raising well rounded, compassionate and contributing adults.
AI Chatbots Are Being Misused to Create Child Sexual Abuse Material. And It’s a Wake-Up Call
- Parents, Here's The News Coming From The IWF For the first time ever, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has confirmed something deeply disturbing: AI chatbots are being used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This isn’t just a hypothetical risk...
Babysitting and Brain Rot Stations: What Kids Can Teach Us About Living in the Now
- Last week, one of our funniest Swamijis (Ramakrishnaji) was in town for a Satsang, so I was assigned the task of babysitting kids at a local chapter of the Chinmaya Mission. As I got on with the task of monitoring what I wondered would be a wolf pack of...
What Marcus Aurelius and Kahlil Gibran Can Teach Us About Surviving (and Thriving) in the Age of AI
- The Poet In My Memory "In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness, and that longing is in all of you." Kahlil Gibran wrote in his seminal work, The Prophet. The first time I came across the name Gibran was in my childhood when my mom would read...
Ancient Dreams, Modern Wake-Up Call: What Buddha and Rama Teach Us About Life Today
Challenging Our Heroes With Prompts On a prompt challenge from a friend, I asked ChatGPT questions on what Buddha and Rama would have been thinking at times of extreme turmoil in their lives, especially during some inflection points in life like when Siddhartha...
When AI Becomes More Human Than Humans: Relationships, Intimacy, and the Age of the Promptstitute
- Erotica, Intimacy And AI It feels like yesterday we were seeing huge societal changes happen in the way Gen Z is turning to AI for emotional support instead of actual dating. I had written about it here. And just this summer, I was whining about how adults...
They’re Touching Grass! Small Joys of Parenting Gen Z in a Screen-Obsessed World 📵🤳
- The Small Joys of Parenting Gen Z Yesterday, my 21 and 17-year-old were part of a music pop-up show in Piedmont Park in Atlanta. Daniel Caesar, the Canadian singer, was performing for a group of young adults. And the best part, they were touching grass! Too...
If You’ve Been Searching for Joy, Read This
- Chasing Permanent Happiness Many years ago, in my early thirties, I started asking myself why I wasn’t truly happy. A vital relationship in my life was in shambles, and a series of unfortunate misunderstandings had left things hopelessly deadlocked. But,...
Meta AI Scandal: Leaked Guidelines Allowed Chatbots to Flirt With Children
https://youtu.be/tSgvsXe-cwE - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Meta AI's Perilous Child Chat Guidelines 🚨 Multiple news outlets are reporting on a controversy surrounding Meta AI's internal guidelines for chatbots interacting with...
Smartphones Are Destroying Young Minds Faster Than Any Technology in History
- Smartphones: A Civilizational Threat to Human Cognition 🧠📵 An opinion piece by Colby Hall in Mediaite, titled “Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed,” is going viral. And rightfully so, because it warns that...
Child Bearers of the World – Review of a Poem on Loneliness, Loss, Survival, and Inheritance 💔
- Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Child Bearers: Loneliness, Loss, Survival, and Inheritance 💔 Child Bearers of the World - What Remains by Rachana, is a poem exploring themes of loneliness, loss, survival, and inheritance, specifically...
How Smartphones Are Stealing 25 Years From Students’ Lives
- Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Students & Mobile Phones: A 25-Year Habit 📱 A recent UK study by Fluid Focus highlights a startling trend: students across schools, colleges, and universities are spending an average of 5 hours and 30...
When Children Are Giving Away Signs Of Emotional Struggles, Are We Listening To Them?
https://youtu.be/V40EthHkvAo - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Noticing Mental Health Struggles in Children This article from "The Mentor Well," focuses on identifying subtle indicators that a child might be experiencing mental health...
Writer-At-Large – A Mother’s Words for the Ache of Missing Her Children
Kanu dappika "కను దప్పిక", which when translated from Telugu literally means “the thirst of the eye”, is what my mother told me she feels for me and my sister from 8000 miles away. As soon as she said those two words, I knew she was helping me describe the kind of...
50 Mind-Expanding Articles to Make You Smarter, Calmer, and Ready for the Future
These below articles span FutureSTRONG’s core themes that are focus, mindfulness, parenting, STEM, AI, mental health, wisdom, relationships, and purpose. Read these independently or as part of a series to reframe your ideas around the given topic. Thank you. 🧠...
Why the War on Drugs Fails: Rethinking Incarceration, Addiction, and Justice Reform 🚨
- Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration 🚨 This article from RehabNet.com, discusses how the "War on Drugs" in the US has drastically increased incarceration rates. It highlights how drug offenses and...
How to Prevent and Respond to Sextortion Scams Targeting Kids Online 🛡️
- Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Sextortion: Prevention and Response for Young Eyes 🛡️ The article that's referred to here is from protectyoungeyes.com and it provides information on how to prevent and respond to sextortion scams. It...
A Heartfelt Guide to College Life: Helping Parents and Kids Navigate the Journey of a Life Well Lived
- Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - A Heartfelt Guide for College-Bound Kids In this touching video, we explore the emotional journey of sending your child off to college. From training to testing, it’s a heartfelt guide filled with advice,...
How Entertainment Is Killing Public Discourse: Neil Postman’s Warning in the Age of Screens
- Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they...