"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
This caselets-based narrative does not seek to laugh or cry at the predicament of parents or their children. It is also not intended to pass judgments on them. In seeking to understand them and their travails and troubles, care and concerns, joys and sorrows, they become the cornerstone for this book.
Are you an anxious, over-concerned parent? Are you overprotective? Are you the slack, indifferent type? Or are you the suspicious or strict parent? It could be that you want to be the best friend to your child. Or you might be a weekend parent or an online virtual parent for your child.
Whatever may be the case, this book can provide a thought-provoking insight. Whether you are a student and researcher of human behavior, a parent or caregiver, a teacher or child-rights activist, it is an eye-opener for everyone. The book is a must-read accompaniment to seminars, workshops, brain-storming sessions, focus-group discussions and other technical group activities for parents or children. It is a handbook for all who have once been a child and is now a parent, or wants to be a parent sooner or later!
S. VENKATESAN
Srinivasan Venkatesan is an academic with three decades of experience in teaching/training parents and professionals in behavior sciences like psychology, special education, speech-language pathology, nursing, social work and child-development. His interactions with children and their parents daily as a clinician-practitioner have given him a unique perspective on parenting. As a certified and qualified clinical psychologist from national level institutions, the author draws heavily from case illustrations and his experience of conducting seminars, workshops, focus-group discussions and training programs across the country.
A recipient of several awards and accolades including the Fellowship of the Society for Advanced Studies in Medical Sciences in psychiatry, he was decorated with Gold Medal by a former President of India in 1994. His publications have received Google Scholar H-Index of 14, i10-Index of 24 with 15000 views on Academia.edu, Research Gate Score of 21.18 and 72000 reads, which is higher than 70% of the group members on this date. He sees each client as a prospective challenge or an unread book of life to be meticulously unraveled and understood. He seeks to understand them!
