7 Natural ways to Grow Hair and Reduce Hair loss

All time Best Natural Remedies For avoiding Dandruff - Thinning Hair- Bald head- Alopecia, Hairfall.

Main Causes (Dandruff - Thinning Hair- Bald head): 

• Thyroid problem, 
• Bacteria or Fungus on the sclap, 
• Clogged hair follicles, Heriditary, 
• age, 
• Cold, 
• Dry whether, 
• infrequent shampooing, 
• Over growth of yeast like fungus (Malassezia), 
• Hormonal changes, 
• Stress, 
• Lack of Zinc and B vitamins.
• Lack of protein food.

Remedy(1):

• Daily do the head bath.
• Do not wash your hair with hot water, always use cold or light hot water to wash your hair during head bath.
• Take protein food(Veg leaves(spinach/Palak..etc), Sprouts, ground nuts, Soya Beans, Almonds,Figs,Non veg..etc).
• Clean oilyness and bacteria on the scalp by applying lime juice or Oniion juice or Kunkudukai (soapnut).
• Try to avoid using shampoos(chemical effects).

Remedy(2):
Shave your head for every 6 months or a year.

Remedy (3):
Apply the Mixture (Coconut oil + Lemon Juice) to the scalp. And Rinse it after 20 min. And Follow this procedure once in a week.

Remedy(4):
Apply Listerine antiseptic (yellow color) and apply directly to the scalp, massage and rinse it after 20 min.

Remedy(5):
Apply Amla oil. or lemon juice and apply on the scalp once in a week.

Remedy (6):
This is a wonderful smelling creamy All natural Coconut Shampoo focused to help stop Thinning Hair! I have used this on myself and others and have seen improvements with hair growth in thinning areas within 1- 2 months. 
Ingredients:
Castile soap- 4-5 tsp, 1 Green tea bag, Coconut milk 3 tsp, Olive oil- 3 tsp, Emu oil 1 tsp,
Lavendar oil 1 tsp, Castor oil1 tsp, Virgin Coconut oil 2-5 tsp.

Remedy (7):
Blend Onion and Garlic with some water in a blender. Apply that paste on the scalp.

Remedy (8):
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Same hair oil can be used to treat baldness in men and women, or hair loss or to prevent hair fall .

PRODUCTS USED 
Olive oil
Coconut Oil
Mustard Oil
Castor Oil
Note: You can use any brand, I use the brands I have trusted from years.
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raf6fnt_mTg

Remedy (9):
Once dandruff occurs, it gives lot of problems. People buy different shampoos and even then dandruff is not cured. Sometimes, hairfall even starts because of that. The best remedy for dandruff is to wash your hairs with sour curd or buttermilk and with Multani Mitti. This is solution for dandruff.

The chemicaled shampoos are cancerous in nature and dangerous for eyes. You should also apply Coconut Oil, Kesh Kanti Oil, Mustard Oil on head as dry scalp also generates dandruff. If you are not able to apply oil full time, apply it at night and wash it next morning.

Ayurvedic Treatment:
1 Spoon Heel of borax + 1 Spoon Tankan Bhasma (You can buy this Bhasma from Patanjali Chikitsalaya or Arogya Kendra) + 1 Spoon Coconut Oil + 2-3 Spoon Sour Curd or Buttermilk + 1 Spoon juice of Neem leaves. After mixing, massage on head and keep it few time and later wash it with Patanjali Kesh Kanti Shampoo. This whole procedure you have to do for 2-3 times to get complete cure.

Eat Amla in any form- Amla Powder, Juice, Chavyanprash, Amalki Rasayan, Murraba, Candy, Amrit Rasayan. If your hairs are becoming gray at small age, then do nail rubbing accupressure for 5 minutes. Dying hairs is dangerous for eyes. Children can do sheershasan and sarvangaasan, it is good for eyes and hairs. People suffering from high Bp, heart diseases, aged people should not do these aasans.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0lOsrty5t8

Improtant Note : A well balanced diet with proper doses of required vitamins is essential for the growth
of good quality hair along with good quality products should also be used to take care of your hair.

Homemade Face Pack for Skin Whitening

How to Make Homemade Face Pack

The large number of products endorsed on the television for skin whitening only confuse us. The growing advertisements about face whitening creams and lotions are signs of how much fairer skin is preferred by many. However, which of these products does one really trust for better and assured effects, no one can guarantee. Along with this confusion also comes the price tag, as most of such whitening products demand a price premium.

Experimenting with chemical products often has the risk of harmful effects on skin which at times could also lead to permanent damage. Another option would be to hit the salon or the spa, but these activities are also seemingly expensive and not within the reach of everyone. There are easier simpler solutions to achieve safer and long lasting skin whitening results using everyday ingredients we readily find in our own kitchens.

Let’s take a look at some of these home remedies – from kitchens to spas. Some of the common ingredients used are lemon juice, yogurt, honey, tomato, fresh fruit pulp, coconut milk, sandalwood powder, oatmeal etc.

But instead of this I thought of trying something else, I mean I agreed with my mom’s recipe for home made face pack, here are few which I am sharing with you.

Homemade Pineapple pulp and coconut milk Skin Whitening Face Pack

white skin

• Mix 1 cup fresh pineapple pulp and 1 cup coconut milk in a jar.
• Pour the mixture as necessary in to a bowl.
• Dip clean sterile cotton balls in bowl till all mixture is soaked up.
• Place the cotton balls on the face for 20 minutes or till they are dry.
• Wash face with warm water and pat dry.
• Repeat this mixture at least 2 times in a week.

Homemade Lemon, honey and Yogurt Skin Whitening Face Pack

• Mix a tablespoon of fresh yogurt, honey and lemon juice.
• Apply the pack evenly on face and neck.
• Leave on for 15 minutes and wash off with warm water.

Homemade Sandalwood powder, lemon and tomato juice Skin Whitening Face Pack

• One teaspoon sandal powder mixed with fresh squeeze of lemon and tomato juice.
• Make into a consistent paste. Apply the pack evenly on face and neck
• Leave it on for 15 minutes or till dry and wash off with warm water

Homemade Yogurt and orange juice Skin Whitening Face Pack

• Clean your face splashing cold water.
• Make a mixture of one tablespoon of yogurt and orange juice.
• Apply the pack on face and neck using fingertips avoiding the eye area.
• Leave it on for 15 – 20 minutes and wash off with warm water.
• Repeat this regularly for 30 days for best results.

Each face pack is natural, with least amount of risk, affordable and easily done at home. Go on bring on your gang of girls and spa up your home with some lemonade and marguerites.

Getting a driving license in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia?

You need to go to Dallah driving school which is near Dallah Hospital on King Fahad Highway. Take any taxi and ask him to take you there.

Before going to the License Office you need following things: 1. Original Iqamah. 2. Photocopy of Iqama. 3. Photocopy of Passport. 4. Driving License of your country 5. If expatriate, translation of foreign driving license in Arabic from an approved translation institute. 6. Passport size photographs 7. Medical report (Blood Group Test) 8. License Fee (400 SR pay it Riyadh bank/ATM for your iqama id and keep the voucher)

Once you have above mentioned things, just take a taxi and ask him to take you to Old Dallah Driving School. Taxi will take 15-20 Saudi Riyals. You are suggested to go there earlier in the morning (reach by 7 am). Now go to shop next to the entrance gate. (You will be approached by persons for license payment in bank. They will asking 430 SR or 450 SR as fees for bank payment. Dont turn to them as you had already completed that in Item #8) From shop, you will get application form which will be filled for you in Arabic then and enclosed in file cover . Total cost for you is 15 riyals.

Now go to Room number 2 in the license office. The person on extreme left will do Eye-sight test. The person on extreme right counter will check your forms, stamp and send you to "License Check" counter. Here one more person will put a stamp on your application and send you for "first try". This trial place is behind the building where you are standing. There will be a car or more and person will be sitting inside. He will ask you to drive the car a little ahead and then reverse a little. Don't worry it is just to see whether you have ever touched the car or not. The person inside will make his comments on your application.

Now come back to room # 2 and deposit SR 100. He will take your file and ask you to attend a 3 hour class. There will be a three hour class in which you will be taught the basics and after that there will be a computer test. Attend the class very carefully and also read all the things written on front and backside of the chart they give you during the class. The questions will be mainly Identification of different signals and general driving rules. Signals & Traffic Rules can be viewed from Riyadh Traffic Site

The questions that are going to be asked for the touch screen computer test, will be mentioned during the class by the training instructor. After class they will take you to a room where you will wait for the test to start. There would be 20 questions and you have to answer them in 30 minutes. If you make any mistake in the first ten questions, then you are failed. In next 10 questions you have to give only five correct answers. If you clear the computer test then they will test your driving. Congratulations, if you clear the test. By the way, it is very easy test. You just have to drive the car for some meters or you might have to do some simple reverse etc. Cars are of model "Cadillac Custom/Camry 2006". Cars are with gears; not automatic.

Go to room number 1 (main room) and just on your left there is a place where "License Delivery" is written. Get your counter number from here and the go to the counter. Now wait until they deliver you the New Driving License. Congratulations!!! You can drive the car in Kingdom for the next 10 years from Now.

Total Expenses Taxi fare (1 day) = 30 SR Photo Pictures = 15 SR Blood Group Test = 15 SR File Cover, Application form filling = 8 SR Photocopies = 2 SR Training Fee = 100 SR License Fee = 400 SR Foreign License Translation = 20 SR ------------------------------------------- Total License Expenses = 590 SR =========================================== Your license is valid for 10 years ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Microsoft Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community

It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work for Microsoft, 
and I think it's boththe end of an era but also the beginning of amazing 
things to come.The .NET 2015 wave ofreleases is upon us. Here's what's 
happening and we announced it today in New York.

There's a lot here, so drink it all in slowly.Be sure to check out all the blog posts I'm linking to at

the end, but here's my personal rollup and take on the situation.

§  We are serious about open source and cross platform.

§  .NET Core 5 is the modern, componentized framework that ships via NuGet. That means you 
can ship a private

§  version of the .NET Core Framework with your app. Other apps' versions can't change your app's
 behavior.

§  We are building a .NET Core CLR for Windows, Mac and Linux and it will be both open source 
and it will be supported

§  by Microsoft. It'll all happen at https://github.com/dotnet.

We are open sourcing the RyuJit and the .NET GC and making them both cross-platform.

§  ASP.NET 5 will work everywhere.

§  ASP.NET 5 will be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mac and Linux support will come 
soon and it's all going to

§  happen in the open on GitHub at https://github.com/aspnet.

§  ASP.NET 5 will include a web server for Mac and Linux called kestrel built on libuv. It's similar 
to the one that comes with

§  node, and you could front it with Nginx for production, for example.

§  Developers should have a great experience.

§  There is a new FREE SKU for Visual Studio for open source developers and students called Visual Studio Community. 

§  It supports extensions and lots more all in one download. This is not Express. This is basically Pro.

§  Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5 will support gulp, grunt, bower and npm for front end 
developers.

§  A community team (including myself and Sayed from the ASP.NET and web tools team 
have created the OmniSharp organization

§   along with the Kulture build system as a way to bring real Intellisense to Sublime, Atom, 
Brackets, Vim, and Emacs

§  on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Check outhttp://www.omnisharp.net as well as 
blog posts by team members Jonathan Channon

§  Even more open source.

§  Much of the .NET Core Framework 4.6 and its Reference Source source is going on GitHub. It's

§  beingrelicensed under the MIT license, so Mono (and you!) can use that source code 
in their .NET implementations.

§  There's a new hub for Microsoft open source that is hosted GitHub at http://microsoft.github.io.

Open sourcing .NET makes good sense. It makes good business sense, good community sense, and 
todayeveryone at Microsoft see this like we do.

 

RELATED LINKS

• Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
• Download Visual Studio 2015 Preview

Building “Indian language learning” apps; Why I Chose ‘Windows 8′ Platform

Being one of the early adopters for developing Windows 8 applications (currently available on Windows Store under Hashia Labs), I am glad to share my experiences. Currently, I have 11 Indian or broadly speaking South-Asian language learning apps published in Windows Store that run on the Windows 8 platform. The languages currently supported are Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, English, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Kashmiri.  These apps allow users to learn, read and write these Indian languages. These are especially suited for native English speaking children who want to quickly learn Indian languages and scripts. There are both trial version and paid versions available. Trial version is free without expiration but has only first 3 out of 14 available features enabled. Links to these apps have been provided at the end for users to download and try it on their Windows 8 PC.

This article primarily covers reasons behind choosing Windows 8 platform for developing my Windows 8 Indian language learning apps.

Background and inspiration

I have a deep interest in Indian(or Indic) scripts and languages and have been learning about them since my childhood. I am software developer by profession and have always been thinking about writing language learning apps ever since the concept of regulated app store for various mobile platforms hit the marketplace. Around six months back, I decided to teach my 6 year old son Hindi language and my plan was to subsequently teach him other languages and scripts that I am familiar with including my mother tongue Kashmiri. I didn’t find the right mobile application that met all my requirements and eventually ended up using actual physical flashcards; the old-school way. Plus there was no Kashmiri learning software app that I came across in the marketplace. This led me to seriously think about developing Indian language learning apps and in the process also contribute to UNESCO’s mother language initiative.

Inspiration also came from an unlikely source- a book, “The Story of My experiments with Truth” by Mahatma Gandhi which by sheer coincidence I was reading around the same time frame. In that book, Gandhiji mentions in one chapter that encouragement to be provided to all major Indian languages including English and vernaculars. He also describes his own effort to learn multiple languages to connect with the people of various Indian regions for understanding their issues and concerns. It also struck me as I came to know that the book was written by Gandhiji in Gujarati (his mother tongue) and was subsequently translated in English by his noted personal secretary Mahadev Desai. What I was actually reading was the translated English version.

As I evaluated competing platforms for my app design I eventually chose Windows 8 for following five main reasons.

1)Modern UI (aka Metro) design

Windows 8 introduces Modern UI design also known as Metro design for User Interaction Experience (UX) on PC’s. Metro design lays emphasis on beautiful typography and uses that typography as a structure for User Interaction (UI) design. Beautiful text content with varying size conveying navigation structure coupled with colors in the background is upfront and central in whole Metro design user interaction experience. In Microsoft’s tech speak it is “Content before chrome” i.e. Content (app’s text and images) takes precedence over graphical UI elements like wireframes which fade to the background and are not needed in many cases. Application themselves are full screen and immersive with no close and minimize buttons. Developer can use the whole screen for app’s functionality.

When I learnt about Metro UI design, the first thing that came to my mind was how Indian scripts would render on a Metro platform especially with neat default sans-serif Segoe UI font used in Windows 8 platform. Apart from diversity of languages, India also has diversity of scripts. In many cases to learn a new Indian language, one has to also learn the associated script with that language.

Given my interest in languages and scripts, I wanted to beautifully showcase Indian scripts and languages and provide opportunity to young folks especially children to learn Indian languages and scripts either as their mother tongue or just as a subject of interest. I wanted them to see text written in Indian script as a work of art that is laid out beautifully and hence I spent extra time making sure I provide appealing visual layout in apps which is text centric with excellent topography.

I found Windows 8 platform with its emphasis on typography and clean text for User Interaction design as a perfect platform to surface my passion.

2) Support for all major Indian languages

Windows 8 with display language in English includes font support for all major Indian languages. That means while developing your application in English you don’t have to install any special fonts or language packs for manipulatingUnicode text in Indian scripts. In my design, I used default Segoe UI font for typography for Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati and Bengali to blend well with default English text font on Windows 8 English typography. For writing feature, I used the associated fonts with these scripts that come with the platform. Below image is created from cut and paste of my Windows 8 apps.

Showcasing South Asian scripts on Windows 8

On the right half of above image is the screen shot of the tiles (app icons) associated with these applications that you will see on your Windows 8 start screen after installing these applications. “Learn Sanskrit” app is in progress.

Windows 8 doesn’t support Indian regional language Kashmiri. But since Kashmiri uses either Devanagari or Perso-Arabic script I was able to work around this problem with some limitations.

Windows 8 also introduces Nastaliq style using “Urdu Typesetting” font.  This font is inbuilt in the platform. Since my two language applications namely Learn Urdu and Kashmiri use Nastaliq style Perso-Arabic script, this really helped me to develop the application in the original script style of these languages.
3) Stylus for writing

For writing, I was looking for a platform which treats stylus as a first class citizen as the method of inputting information. Personally, I find it difficult to conceive that one can practice serious writing of language script on a computer with sketching using finger touch. For a purist like Urdu calligrapher, even stylus may not make the cut especially with Nastaliq script of Urdu where font width varies in the stroke at start and end.

Windows 8 supports stylus (pen) for writing or note-taking on hardware platforms that support stylus. UpcomingMicrosoft Surface Windows 8 Pro (x86) tablet using Intel Core i5 showcases the use of stylus and digital inking. Since I wanted to layout lot of emphasis on penmanship while writing, Windows 8 platform provides a perfect choice as it has stylus and digital inking capability as an important feature of the platform.

4) Includes existing PC hardware

Windows 8 can run on wide range of PC devices including existing laptops and desktops that are currently running Windows 7. Though Windows 8 is touch-optimized and great for touch screen PC’s you can still use the entire functionality using keyboard ora mouse on a PC that doesn’t support touch. My applications were developed on HP desktop PC that I had purchased way back in 2008 and it had Windows Vista pre-loaded on it at that time. I updated it to “Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation” version for my app development. It is estimated that 600 million licenses have been sold for Windows 7. That means all these Windows 7 PC’s are potential candidates for upgrade to Windows 8.  For example, my dad has low-end Acer laptop running Windows 7 and he doesn’t seem interested in buying a separate tablet device as this point in time. But I do see a big possibility of him upgrading to Windows 8.

Expect for writing where I would recommend stylus capable Windows 8 tablet device, all the other features of my Windows 8 applications can be used on existing PC hardware that can be upgraded to Windows 8.

5)Programming language choices

I have spent most of time in my professional career either writing or debugging device drivers. Device drivers is mainly C/C ++ code. Windows 8 provides variety of programming choices from native C++ to C# and JavaScript. I do have some familiarity with C#/XAML (managed code) but in end I chose JavaScript/HTML5.  All my applications are developed in JavaScript/HTML5/CSS.

The reason for choosing JavaScript/HTLM5 was that I wanted to use this opportunity to learn something related to web application development so that I can broaden my overall programming skills. It took me 2-3 weeks to be familiar with JavaScript and to be at a point where I could start developing my Windows 8 JavaScript applications. Microsoft provides msdn documentation and samples to bring developers up to speed for building JavaScript applications using Windows 8 JavaScript library.

If you are a web application developer having familiarity with JavaScript, then JavaScript may be your preferred choice. Think of my applications as bunch of HTML pages styled with CSS with JavaScript control in them. But instead of running inside an internet browser it is full-fledged client application running on a PC.

One more thing, I want to add is related to development tools. If you are already familiar with previous versions of Visual Studio then you can quickly start building with MS Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 using GUI interface and commands that you are already familiar with. Furthermore, VS Expression 2012 comes with a Blend for VS 2012 and is covered in detail in blend insider web site and is great authoring tool for declarative programming to lay out visual UI elements. I found Blend’s ability to provide live view and live Document Object Model (DOM) for my JavaScript applications time saving and powerful. It really helped me to quickly iterate to the nice visual layout that I was targeting for.

Simulator that comes with VS 2012 also comes handy for testing for various screen sizes, orientations and different views.
Features of the apps

All of my applications follow same navigation and layout design with home page listing all the available features. Every word has audio playback and English translation to help native English speaking user to quickly learn Indian language. More than 150 words have been added in each application with audio playback with pronunciation. Features are laid out in 3 distinct groups with functionality as described below.

1. Basics
   • Learn Vowels.
   • Learn Consonants.
   • Learn Pronunciation.
   • Practice writing using stylus.
2. Categories
   • 7 categories namely Relations, Colors, Numerals, Fruits, Vegetables, Animals and Days of the Week.
3. Flash Cards
   • 3 categories of flash cards. These 3 categories are Fruits and Vegetables, Animals and Colors.
   • Random selection of the words in the list of four selection options.
   • Provides scoring of your attempts.

These Windows Store apps work both in portrait and landscape orientation of the tablet PC and adjust the layout in a snapped view for multitasking. They also automatically adjust to screen sizes from tablet screen size to larger desktop screen sizes. They include Zoom in and Zoom out feature for quick navigation of the collection of the words.

Links to the apps on Windows 8 Store

1.)    Learn Hindi in Devanagari script

2.)    Learn Urdu in Perso-Arabic script using Nastaliq style

3.)    Learn Bengali in Bengali script

4.)    Learn Tamil in Tamil script

5.)    Learn Telugu in Telugu script

6.)    Learn English in Latin script

7.)    Learn Marathi in Devanagari script

8.)    Learn Gujarati in Gujarati script

9.)    Learn Punjabi in Gurmukhi script

10.) Kashmiri in standardized Perso-Arabic-Kashmiri script Nastaliq style

11.) Learn Kashmiri in standardized Devanagari-Kashmiri script

User can download and install these Windows Store apps and try them for free on Windows 8.  As mentioned in the beginning, trial version is free without expiration but has only first 3 out of 14 features enabled.

If possible please take time to review and rate the applications on Windows Store so that these apps can be further improved.

Parenting Advise skills

#1 Create the Right Atmosphere

Sadhguru: Creating the necessary ambience is a large part of parenthood. You must create the right kind of atmosphere – a certain sense of joy, love, care and discipline both within yourself and in your home. The only thing that you can do to your child is to give him love and support. Create a loving atmosphere for him where intelligence will naturally flower. A child looks at life pristinely. So you sit with him and look at life fresh, like he does. Your child need not do what you did in life. Your child should do something that you did not even have the courage to think about. Only then will this world progress and something happen.

A basic responsibility that humanity has to fulfill is to ensure that the next generation of human beings is at least one step ahead of you and me. It is extremely important that the next generation should live a little more joyfully, with less fear, less prejudice, less entanglement, less hatred, less misery. We must aim for this. Your contribution to the next generation should be that you don’t leave a brat in the world, you should leave a human being who is at least a little better than you.

#2 Know What Your Child Needs

Sadhguru: Some parents in their aspiration or ambition to make their children super-strong, have unnecessarily put their children through too much hardship. They want their children to become what they themselves could not become. In trying to fulfill their ambitions through their children, some parents have been extremely cruel to children. Other parents, believing that they are very loving to their children have over-pampered them and made them powerless and useless in the world.

Once, there was a yogi who belonged to a certain tradition called Kashmir Shaivism. This is one of the seven forms of yoga. It is a very powerful form, but it has mostly remained in the Kashmir area, so it acquired that name. One day, this yogi saw a cocoon which was slightly cracked, and the butterfly inside was really struggling to come out – the cocoon shell was too hard. Usually, the butterfly struggles constantly for almost forty-eight hours to come out of the cocoon. If it does not come out, it will die. The yogi saw this and out of his compassion he used his nail and opened the cocoon so that the butterfly could come free. But when it came out, it could not fly. It is that struggle to break out of the cocoon which empowers the butterfly to use its wings and fly. What is the use of a butterfly that cannot fly? A lot of people, in what they think is love for their children, have made their children like this. The children don’t fly in their life.

There is no standard rule for all children. Each child is different. It is a certain discretion. No perfect line can be drawn as to how much to do and not do. Different children may need different levels of attention, love and toughness. If you were to come and ask me while I am standing in the coconut garden, “How much should I water each plant?” I would say “A minimum of fifty liters.” But if you go home and pour 50 liters for your rose plant, it will die. So you must see what kind of plant you have in your house.

#3 Learn From Your Child

Sadhguru: Most adults assume that as soon as a child is born, it is time to become teachers. When a child enters your house, it is not the time to become a teacher, it is time to learn, because if you look at yourself and your child, your child is more joyous, isn’t it? So it is time you learn life from them, not the other way around. The only thing that you can teach your child – which you have to, to some extent – is how to survive. But when it comes to life itself, a child knows more about life experientially, by himself. He is life; he knows it. Even with you, if you take away the influences you have imposed upon your mind, your life energies know how to be. It is only your mind which doesn’t know how to be. An adult is capable of all kinds of sufferings – imagined sufferings. A child has still not gone to that. So it is time to learn, not teach.

#4 Just Let Him Be

Sadhguru: If parents are truly concerned about their children, they must raise their children in such a way that the child will never have any need for the parent. The process of loving should always be a liberating process, not an entangling process. So when the child is born, allow the child to look around, spend time with nature and spend time with himself. Create an atmosphere of love and support and don’t try to impose your morals, ideas, religion or whatever in any way. Just allow him to grow, allow his intelligence to grow and help him look at life on his own terms, as a human being – not identified with the family, or your wealth or whatever else. Just helping him to look at life as a human being is very essential for his wellbeing and the wellbeing of the world. Always, the parent encouraging the child to learn to think for himself, to use his own intelligence to see what is best for him is the best insurance you have so that the child grows up well.

#5 Be a Joyful, Peaceful Being

Sadhguru: If you want to bring up your child well, the first thing is, you should be happy. But you, by yourself do not know how to be happy. Every day in your house, when tension, anger, fear, anxiety and jealousy are the only things that are being demonstrated to your child, what is going to happen to him? He will obviously learn only these, isn’t it? If you really have the intention of bringing up your child well, you should change yourself to be a loving, joyous and peaceful being. If you are incapable of transforming yourself, where is the question of you bringing up your child?

If we really want to bring up our children well, first of all we must see if we can do something with ourselves. Everyone who wishes to be a parent must do one simple experiment. Let them sit down and see what is it that is not okay with their lives, and what would be good for their lives – not about the world outside, but about themselves. Something about yourself – your own behavior, speech, modes of action, and habits – if you can alter that in three months, then you would handle your child also with wisdom.