My Daddy is the Best - Lyrics

Father's Day falls on 3rd Sunday of the month of June. It is celebrated to honor Dads for everything they do to bring up kids and bond a family through out their life. As it's been celebrated on June 21st this year, here's a song lyrics "My Daddy is the Best" and I am sure, kids will love to sing this song. This is from the Album of Penny Vaz, an Indian singer from Bombay. You can also find 'Dad-A Role Model and Tips for Dads -(article in my Book 'Guardian of Angels' - a copy can be grabbed from Amazon.com ) - Enjoy!

My Daddy is the Best
I hear from my friends everyday, About the things their daddies do
So rich and famous they may be,I know that what they say is true
Some are doctors some are cops
Some have reached the very top
Some are short and some are tall
Some they say just have it all
But I still like the one I've got'Cause he's the Best one of the Lot

Chorus: My daddy is the best
He's a cut above the rest
I know he cares for me
He's everything a dad should be...
My daddy is the best
He's a cut above the rest
I know he cares for me
He's everything a dad should be
My daddy is the Best.

He gets home tired everyday
But then he takes me on his knee
He strokes my cheek that special way
I know how much he cares for me
Takes me to a movie show
Anywhere I wanna go
Takes me to the beach to play
Yes, my daddy makes my day
There are times when I', feeling sad
But I come alive holding his hand...

Repeat Chorus.

- ilaxi patel

Author of Guardian of Angels
Editor, http://www.kidsfreesouls.com/

Build the Confidence and block anxiety

Confidence is the key to success. We all know this but often we find our children lacking the confidence. Especially, during examinations. Examination period is also a cause of anxiety. It is observed that many people have the social phobias in their personal and professional lives and many find it a ‘Blocking Door’ as they stumble over a presentation at work or go blank on a test or baffle to speak and find stammering in nervousness in certain situations. This is a disturbed social confidence and a stressful situation.

Do not let a Parental Anxiety create stress for children. In fact, turn the anxiety into Energy. Keep cool. Believe in yourself and your child. A child who is stressed with Parental anxiety often finds loss of memory and loss of confidence.

Eight Things you can do to boost Confidence in your kids:

Build self esteem

Encourage responsibility

Communicate

Discipline

Instill Moral values

Deepen child’s Self-knowledge & Awareness

Respond sensitively to set back

Decision spontaneity

Moreover, never compare. Nor, let the child feel inferiority complex. Follow the examination tips and the Blog note on Ed Desk here and let examinations be a wonderful experience for kids and you too - as a Parent, it's a happy educating a child to reach his goals some day.

- ilaxi patel

Author of Guardian of Angels
Editor, http://www.kidsfreesouls.com/

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Smooth Sailing Relationships

Relationships mean a lot in life! Let there be Smooth sailing Relationship with soft hearts but no broken relations if one got to stay happy, make happy, stay cool. How often, we find people with 'Crush' and this can happen with anyone - children to adults! Only as parents or teachers, we ourselves need to be too aware of our emotions and set a positive example to children who often need guidance.

Here are tips that might help adults and guide children too :

Stay cool. Make sure the person you like so dearly is not married because it sooner or later spells disaster. If you do so, keep the friendship a distance and let not your emotions go haywire. After all, many people learn this from experiences only!

If your Crush is too young, treat her right! Don’t scare them out of your wits. Just be cool friends, give positive signals of openness to make her realize that you care. Even if you don’t get encouragement to positive signals, let go. Don’t hurt yourself or the other. Do not tell tales about your Crush as it would only harness yours and her reputation spreading rumors about your relationship.

If your crush is too old, Watch out! Snoop around a bit and get to know how her reputation holds importance. If you think of her as a flirt, the warning signal but if she is a flirt like all libras and Leos do, just remember that she lives a lot in realities and you will sooner or later realize your own mistake! Don’t get smitten with love bite but be cool to let your relationship take on a lighter tone while flirting and think positive that some relationships are inspirations and encouragements too. These things are more important to back you up in pursuing your responsibilities in life.

Staring, sending cards, making phone calls, sending messages and stuff should mean something but let not those emotions run wild. It may happen that your crush is more mature and finds such things ‘Silly’. Just ‘Be yourself’ Do not act in haste, make a show-off, smoke, drink or drive senseless to impress someone. In any case, mature people don’t change themselves to please others. Stop those ‘Blank calls’ and all the crazy ways if you have the Crush. Soon you realize its only a ‘Crush’ but if you think, you like the friendship, go ahead and be practical instead of being crazy because friends are forever. If you think, your emotions are chasing high, stop, think and analyze and then, go and let your Crush know point-blank what she means to you or you are interested. If you feel you are right, you are right and stick tight but if you don’t have those reciprocal relationship treat, just Relax, stay cool – catch the hold of the moment, let the heart beat into the sweet memories forever.

Well, I have covered up a Chapter 'Temperament and Values' in my book 'Guardian of Angels'. We all need to Conquer Anxiety and Master our Moods. Know Emotions and stay cool, impart values to our children as they grow up.

Btw, here's Moms Zone for Parents and teachers on Kidsfreesouls.

- ilaxi patel
Author of 'Guardian of Angels'
Editor, http://www.kidsfreesouls.com/

How to Tithe?

Christmas time and time to be Spiritual and spread love, faith, peace around. I've been attending the Midnight Mass at the Church since years and what I find so amazing is the holy silence as the sermons are being read. There is a spiritual feel in the air as the baby Jesus is born and everything is so different that makes one believe in a super power 'God'.

Some parents are concerned on How do we teach the child Spiritual Wisdom? And here's guidelines to build the Faith. However, it is also important to teach your child to Give (or call it Tithe, which means giving tenth part of income to church). Like the song we teach our kids, "If you give love, you will receive love - same way, it is important to teach a child to give away their share of things they like to buy like toys, clothes, cassettes. Sometimes, children do not like to share their belongings. However, charity begins at home! So, how do you teach your child to 'Give' (or Tithe)?

Read more here on the main Kidsfreesouls Ed Blog and for more, click to the Kidsfreesouls website here. Enjoy, Peace be with You, Keep the Faith.

- ilaxi patel
Author of Guardian of Angels
Editor, www.kidsfreesouls.com
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Children's Day in India: Nurture a Genius in your child

Albert Einstein thought ‘Nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mostly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail.' Nurture a Genius in your child. An article in Guardian of Angels speaks of various intellectual skills. These skills develop with the age and the educational feedback as well as the day-to-day core and living in free atmosphere. They possess the following main intelligence skills and its upon a parent to nurture their Genius minds in the category they fall into:

Linguistic skills
Creative skills
Logical skills
Music
Spatial Intelligence
Bodily movements
Empathy skills & Self Understanding
Harmonious Approach with Intra Personal capabilities
Sense of Nature Love

Recognizing the child’s potentialities and their interest reflects their intelligence skills and whilst most systems in school focus on Linguistic and Logical methods of learning, it is the Creative spirit to be nurtured in the kid and a Genius is Born.

Well, you got to read more in Guardian of Angels. Btw, here's to celebrate Children's Day in India with Kidsfreesouls Picture Gallery and Paste Board on the Web. Read my main Editor Blog on Kidsfreesouls and Enjoy!

- ilaxi patel
Author of Guardian of Angels
Editor, http://www.kidsfreesouls.com/

My Parents are the Best!

Once I found some children casually talking to each other when they suddenly got into a debate and each said, "My Parents are the Best and best-est!"

Every child is proud of his parents and their whole world revolves round their family - the love and caring, nurturing relationship. We have many books on Parenting including mine, but alas, like most things in life, parenthood too comes with No How to do Instructions and statutory warming but an experience to balance and facing challenges to offer the role of parenting. Successful parenting comes from within, with an insight and inner values. There are no clear cut methods on good parenting but habits you can develop to ensure that you prioritize your method of upbringing the child with greater responsibility.

As parents, we fondly hope that our Children want to say these lovely words, "My Mom is the Best of My Daddy is the Best-est!" And here are steps to follow as Guardian of Angels to be the 'BEST' and feel on top of the world:

1. Be firm
Build a easy frame of life. Children don't like chaos. Be firm in your decisions and reactions. Let there be consistency in your attitude for their behavioral development.

2. Teach, Do not Preach
Most often, Parents lead to Preach rathar than teach. Even if you are not a great teacher, every parent feels a sense of gratitude while the kids learn and follow them. Learning builds in confidence and can be made fun. Sharing experiences, playing together and teaching in a normal way is a way to go than to preach and tell (or rather Nag!) the child to 'Do This' or 'Do That.'

3. Get Involved
With the tech savvy kids growing up, help them grow gracefully. Involve yourself in their academic growth, Activities, social developments and more. Be together on their Life journey as a guiding light and provide your wisdom. Even you need to learn to help them learn newer things. Your Interest as Parents in every step helps the child get motivated and encouraged. They build their self confidence as you feel good factor of your involvement.

4. Rejuvenation
Rejuvenate yourself and make the child's week ends fun. Recreation is must as 'All work and No Play' is no good idea. Children have their own friends and love to spend time with them - Watch a movie, listen to ipod, dance around or go for explorations. However, quality time with parents is must as they learn to value family life as much as they love to be with friends.

5. Clear Stress signals
Let not your stress fall on children. Parental issues are worst as children are anxious to what goes around them as they are fond of both the parent. Your relationship issues cause worry for them. Even stress at your workplace, money crisis, family issues and so on have an impact on your stressful behavior. As a result, Parent stress is a Kid's Stress. Children need to be free of mind of any kind of tension.

6. Be Religious
One need not force Religion to kids. However, rituals are good for faith. A child who lives with faith learns to love the world. Celebrating festivals like Christmas, Diwali is togetherness. Let there be cozy dinners together and saying 'Grace' at mealtimes. Or, Watch television show or a sports game - It's a family time to bond and feel close.

Be the BEST - Be the successful Parent and it often comes with an Understanding and a lot deal of Sacrifice too!

- ilaxi patel
Author of Guardian of Angels

Stage Fright?

Stage fright or performance anxiety is something that is very common among all of us and even children. Often, in school you may be asked to come up on stage and give a short speech or be a part in the debating team. But, if you find nervousness creeping in you, your hands would shake, voice falter and heart keeps pounding - chances are that you have a Stage Fright. Anyone who is participating in an activity that will bring them into close or direct contact with a small or large audience can experience stage fright. Often it happens, you are told to give a speech and words either roll out which goes out of topic sometimes or it's just you start fumbling for words. May be, you are not scared of the Stage but it's a speech faltering. Whatever, the stage performance weakens.

If you find yourself in such situation, never try and shun public performances altogether. This is a mistake. Stage fright is something that you need to overcome. But how? So, here we go:

1. Be positive : Meditate before you begin. Close your eyes and be positive. When you have a speech performance, begin with a quote. Or, when you have a stage performance, murmur to yourself a quote that builds your confidence or say to yourself, 'I can do it' and you will.

2. Don't be nervous : shrug off the blues and don't be nervous. Negative thoughts are not to pop up in your mind

3. Be prepared : Be well prepared before you go to stage. Memorize your words or focus on what you have to say.

4. Eye contact : Do not focus on a single eye contact. Let your vision be focused on the audience in whole without allowing your eyes to wander.

5. Focus on the character : When you are on stage performance, focus on the character you have to play and not yourself.

6. Concentrate : Do not allow your memory to lapse. Concentrate. If you let your mind wander, your dialogues will start fading.

7. Don't Listen to audience : While performance, don't listen to the comments of audience - bouquets or brickbats. If your performance is found good, audience is apt to be emotional and their emotions might distract you to make mistakes. So, stay focused.

8. Be your usual self : Don't do anything unusual when you have to go for stage performance. Do not break your routine schedule. Don't skip meals nor sleep less. This may only disturb your health.

Stage fear Anxiety need to be let off. I felt the Stage anxiety when I did have to stand up to an audience to give self introduction which is quite lengthy professional data and made me confused as to what to say. It made me real confused and falter. Hence, first priority should always be 'get well prepared.' and avoid spontaneous speech. Moreover, Be your best, dress your best, do your best and perform the best.

- ilaxi

Guardian of Angels Blog Widget & Pocket money for kids link

How much pocket money did you get as a child? And how much pocket money would you give to your child now?Think over! You need to Change with the Change, isn't it? However, like I mentioned in one of my articles in my Book 'Guardian of Angels', Morris Mandel from Jewish Press says, "Four Magic words : We can't afford it", should be a part of every child's education. A child who has never heard these words, or also has never been forced to abide by their meaning, has surely been cheated by his parents. As exercise strengthens the body, frugality strengthens the spirit. Without its occasional discipline, character suffers."

What every parent need to do is, 'Draw a line on How much pocket money to give to children' and the second thing to teach children is, 'How to manage money.' Those parents who fail to do so, often face stress and ultimately, kids also fall in the category as their demands keep rising and following a herd mentality is quite common we see in a tech age. Thus, it's Parent stress-Kids stress!

You can find more on this on my main Ed note on kidsfreesouls blog.

Btw, now you can add Guardian of Angels Blog widget and also other widgets from here and place on your blog, website or social networking places. Enjoy.

- ilaxi patel

Author of Guardian of Angels

Know your child's friends & Teacher's welcoming note

Schools have now become a routine when fun goes amiss. Some children are still stressful and so are the parents. It's time to make your child independent and organized. Change in bedtime routines and a healthy breakfast in the morning. Apart from all, One thing really important for a child is Making connections. Children do make friends on their own but yet, a parental guiding help can add to his positive friendship.

Even teachers need to get an insight to know the child, about their learning abilities and methods to adopt while dealing with children. Welcoming note always help with 'Child Development Review.'

Here's my recent post on this on my Ed Blog note. Enjoy.

- ilaxi patel
Author of Guardian of Angels

Brat Kids!

Sometime ago, I came across a parent who wanted to enroll her kid to my Library and she labelled her child as 'Bratatouille' - She almost bitterly blurred out words of hidden anger and frustration as she even considered herself 'Unlucky' to have such a kid. She wanted me to counsel her child and help her out in teaching him right manners.

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Well, as the child takes the first steps, parents often are thrilled with the experience of the little gestures and smiles of the baby. They pamper around and call nick names. As he grows up to understanding age of 4-12 years, the child becomes a brat as like a monster, shouts and screams, giggles at guests or never leave you alone. So, what went wrong? Why do they act this way? Ever wonder about their attitudes and you come closer to the answer "Why my child acts the way I don't like'. Some reasons can be:

1. The child needs your attention. Maybe you are a working mom or too busy in your life with other things to do, the child is often neglected. Especially, when you don't have time to listen to his sweet, silly talks. Here's when he finds challenging to draw your attention.

2. Today's kids are savvy. They know the tricks of the trade to appear angelic and they tell all kinds of tales to make believe. Let them feel you are much clever and can see their tricks. Do not get into arguments but nevertheless allow them to over-rule you.

3. Jealousy is always have deep roots especially siblings which turn them nasty. A child feels that the other is the apple of the eye of the parent. So, treat both equal. Do not praise much or criticize in front of the other. Pay equal attention, give equal pocket money or favor them equally. Don't let them feel down or lower.

4. In social gatherings, don't just ignore the child or else, he is sure to create tension while he tries to draw your attention. When guests turn up, the child may bang on the music loud or play the games on their PS2 to irritate you. Hence, occupy them in their interest and teach the right manners.

5. Kids with no activities often get bored. Books, television, friends or games - all often get them distracted after some time. Keep them busy as bored equals naughty equals brats.

6. Do not React too far. Avoid their uncomfortable questions and keep your cool. Silence and tact brings in results of good behavior.

7. Don't complain - to your family members, teachers or their friends about their mis-behavior. Every child is different and needs love and understanding. Reacting adds to hurt self esteem and further disturbs his and your peace of mind.

8. Introvert kids are often the result of neglect. Reason out and convince that you have your own job and friends just as he has his friends and school.

We don't call children brats but it's good parenting without guilt. Render discipline without anger and reward for good behavior. Always do not overschedule yourself nor your child's work. Have play time and outings together. A friendly and loving attitude establish better relationships. Enjoy.

- ilaxi patel
Author of Guardian of Angels: A practical guide to Joyful Parenting



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