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SELF-HELP Management guru D.K. Vohra now comes up with tips on handling children
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It is a case of daughter showing father the way. It so happened that Divvya, a student of dental surgery, noticed that most teenagers were living in a "pressure cooker atmosphere of expectations, heavy syllabi and peer rivalry". The father, D.K. Vohra, a management guru who has authored more books than many can remember, took the hint. And plunged headlong into a book to rear children. The result? "7 Traits of Highly Talented Children", a Pinkberry9 publication, in which he has dwelt at length on dos and don'ts with children.
Says Vohra, "These traits stem from my experience. They are not the words of Bible, Quran or Gita. They are only indicative in nature. Most of the traits are visible very early in childhood. How these traits develop in an adult depends on the growing process."
He believes every query of children needs to be attended to. "You need to be patient. Parents must support their children, give them quality time. This might require certain sacrifices on their part but they must share their experiences, narrate stories to children."
Vohra talks of talented children as great dreamers, exhibiting a healthy attitude, mental toughness and the like. Fine, but what's new? Aren't all self-help and management books about such traits?
"Yes, they are but most of the books available on the subject are foreign. Here we have given the content an Indian ethos. The publishers wanted visual support though I was not exactly comfortable with the photographs," he confesses, hinting at the usage of foreign children in the pictures in the book.
After the pangs of growing up children, Vohra is now concentrating on a book on Krishna, this time without co-authorship of Divvya. "Krishna has a timeless readership. It is not a religious book".
ZIYA US SALAM
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