On conscious parenting and natural learning

I have been an avid reader of Sangeetha Sriram's fascinating blog on conscious parenting . I posted a question in her blog recently. I was so enthralled by her answer that I felt strongly to share it with the readers of my blog.  

Venky: A question came into my mind while I was watching one day few kids playing with their mother in the train. The kid in his playful mirth was enjoying the sights of the train. His mother was feeding him some rice packed in a small box. The kid picked some rice and started rubbing them in the mother's skin. The mother immediately rebuked saying, "Aren't you a good boy?

As I heard this line, I began to wonder, isn't this how we were brought up. Defining the world in terms of good and bad until we grow up and evolve and see that there is nothing good or bad and these polarities are indeed causing a lot of trouble in the world. So my question to you is: How do we ensure that kids' minds aren't conditioned in these polarities? Have you faced such situation before? How did you handle it? 

Transforming Capitalism - Jet-lagged reflections

As Arun Maira sets the narrative frame with the significant turn of the events in the first decade of the twenty first century which led him to write "Transforming Capitalism: Improving the world for everyone", he reassures the prospective reader, the social-media savvy generation habituated to small but titillating information doses, of his intent to keep each pieces "short enough to read during a brief plane ride". My mind went back to those words. It was long enough to make me feel disoriented, groggy and mildly irritable. Possible symptoms for jet-lag before I could aboard his plane of thoughts. The jet-lagged mind began to wonder: Is it possible to reflect on transforming the institutions of capitalism within the cosy confines of an airplane, the ungrounded symbol of capitalism, the maharajah  of India's long, malodorous affair with subsidies? 


While flying above the air at an average speed of 600mph, will it be possible to reflect upon our addiction to speed which has satiated our desire to move faster and faster, blinding us from seeing its pernicious costs on the environment and eventually on our quality of life?