Our Children Need Teachers, Not Just Lessons
Today’s children have lessons everywhere, but good teachers are becoming harder to find. A reflection on why children need mentors, role models and human connection beyond the classroom.
Pakistan's Growing Family Problems and Their Possible Solution
A psychiatrist traces his path from cardiac surgery to psychotherapy, and argues Pakistan's joint family system is quietly failing a generation.
How to Protect Your Child’s Self-Worth in a Materialistic World
How can parents protect a child’s self-worth in a world that measures people by money and possessions? Raising confident children begins with teaching them that their value lies in who they are, not what they own.
Our Mothers Taught Us a Habit We Need to Unlearn
How generations of women learned to earn their rest through exhaustion, and why it may be time to leave that guilt behind.
Study Stress and the Burden of Naam Roshan Karna
Naam roshan karna sounds like encouragement. Children hear a debt. How exam pressure harms South Asian teenagers, and what parents can do differently.
What Teens Eat During 14 Hour School and Tuition Days
Samosas, chips and energy drinks are feeding a generation of coaching students. A look at the nutritional cost of the fourteen hour school day in Pakistan.
Child Protection in Pakistan: What Exists, What Fails, and What Falls to Us
Pakistan has child protection bureaus, helplines and new laws. Most parents have never been told they exist. Here is what they are and what still falls to us.
Do Not Let Relatives Bully Your Children
Relatives often mock a child's colour, weight or speech in front of you, and you stay quiet to keep the peace. Children do not forget those sentences.
Why Selfish Mothers Raise Healthier Kids
Why setting boundaries, resting, and saying no might be the most psychologically healthy thing a mother can do, for herself and her children
The Result Is Theirs. The Post Is Yours
Not every result gets posted. Only the good ones do. A piece on the scoreboard feeling of result season, and what actually happens to the child scrolling underneath it.
The Contract No Child Ever Signed
Marriage, employment, trade, even a purchase at a corner shop. Every arrangement in life is agreed by two sides. Birth is the only one decided entirely by one. So why do we speak so loudly of parents' rights and so quietly of children's?
Every Teenager Gets Angry. Not Every Home Makes It Louder
An exploration of why teenage anger affects every home differently, and how temperament and family environment shape a teenager’s reactions. It looks at what can amplify conflict and what helps young people feel safer, calmer and understood.
Whither Campus Training?
Rashid Chaudhry explores how Pakistani universities focus strictly on degrees while discouraging active student engagement, leaving young people informed about politics yet unprepared to practice citizenship in public life.
"Don't Give Them the Phone." Then How Will They Learn?
I gave my son a tablet when he was seven. Everyone told me I would regret it. He is seventeen now, and he built the website you are reading this on.
What Your Teenager Knows That You Don't
Desi parents often assume experience settles every argument. But some things only the young can see, and the house that asks is the house that gets told the truth.
Bus Mein Dhakkay: The Story Pakistani Parents Can't Stop Telling
They gave their children everything they earned. So why does the bus story keep coming back, and what does it do to the teenager hearing it?
The Childhood Behind a Harsh Adult
The way we treat children today shapes the leaders, parents, teachers, and officers they become tomorrow. This is a story about the lasting impact of childhood trauma
Why Do We Bring Children Into This World?
A deeply personal reflection on the fears, responsibilities, joys, and suffering that come with bringing a child into the world. A difficult question lies at its heart, if life is full of uncertainty and pain, why do we choose to give it to our children?
The Architecture of Absence
From the young man in the faded blue shalwar kameez to the boy eating cement-dusted rice in the dark, they build the walls that outlast them, knowing the only permanent thing they leave behind is their own invisibility.
She Was a Child Too — The Silent Sacrifice of the Elder Sister
In poor South Asian households and villages, a new baby arrives almost every year and the eldest daughter pays for it with her school, her childhood, her whole self
Is Your "Good Child" Actually Free?
How South Asian parenting confuses control for love, and why the "perfect child" often grows into an insecure adult