I have one son who is mentally challenged. I am worried about his future life after my demise. Can you suggest the names of institutions who can take care of such persons. I am ready to pay and deposit more than one crore rupees for his care after my death.

Kind attention Rediff Gurus : My 2 year old son clearly speaks Mummy and Papa but struggles to talk/utter other things. We are also not able to understand what exactly he wants and then he starts crying badly. Does he need any medical attention. My elder son started talking when he was just 1.5 years old. Kindly suggest

Hi Arun , My 3 yr old (Girl) she always cry for small things for Ex. if we take mobile from hand . if we take any thing from her hand . she cannot walk properly only touch with leg figures while walking. please give me any suggestion for this.

hello mam,my 2 yr old (girl) doesn't eat anything except daal rice,we hv tried a lot of diff techniques to feed her different items but she spits it out.is this normal in 2 yr olds? what shud I do to get her to eat different varieties food like other children?

Thanks for your quick response Aruna. He does not want to mingle with us...He has his own set of friends and will always hang around with them. As parents we are totally confused.... how to make him understand that if he studies well then only he can fulfill his desires by getting good job etc. He has a liking for cars, branded shoes, branded dresses. etc

Dear Aruna, My child is 16.5 year old and is in 12th Standard. He wanted to pursue JEE and hence we got him admitted to a school who has integrated program where along with CBSE they impart JEE training as well. They also had a hostel facility. We had shifted him to this hostel during his 11th after lot of thinking as he used to waste lot of time gaming and hanging around with his friends...he had got 78% in his 11th and this was because he stayed in the hostel. Now he is saying that he will not go back to the hostel at all and prepare at home. But he does not seem to be serious at all...he has been gaming, hanging around with his friends etc.When asked about all this he says that he is well ware and will do the needful..Off late he started saying that he is not interested in doing JEE and make basket ball as his career...we as parents are very confused...I even have fights with my son because of this...Please advise what needs to be done. I would like that he rejoins hostel as this would make him disciplined and responsible...It is important that he completes his 12th standard with good marks and i feel that staying back home is not going to help at all. he is intelligent and teachers appreciate him a alot..he is also talented but is wasting lots of time...he says that he knows everything and no one need to tell him anything. Whenever he hears abt hostel he gets irritated. This hostel does not allow mobile phones or any electronic gadgets at all.

My daughter is 14 years old, At this teen age she is addicted to mobile and using instagram a lot. She is quite narcissist and uploads a lot of photos and do make senior male friends. She is not at all focussing in studies. even she scored low marks in Std-IX for which she had to repeat class-iX and changed the school. I had already consulted a psychiatric and she is under medication. Even I got a pet (rabbit) for her . But still she is not reducing mobile consumption and not going school regularly in new school. Pl guide me what to do.

My five-year-old daughter has just started school. For the first two days she was fine, but after that she started crying the whole time. Her teachers called us, asking us to take her home as she was crying relentlessly. We were even allowed to sit with her at school, but still she refused to go to class. Now, she even refuses to go to school. We push her inside the class but she comes out running moments later. Cries the whole time she is in school, whether we are there or not. We asked her if everything is fine, she only says 'I don't like school, don't like teachers and classmates'. Two of her friends, with whom she plays every evening, are also in the same class. But she refuses to even sit with them in the class. She misbehaves with teachers when forced to sit in the class. Though she apologises later when prompted. One day when we left her in school, we got a call within half an hour that she is showing very violent behaviour, hitting herself against the wall and running towards the school gate. All this made us very frightened as school buses keep coming and going on the main thoroughfare. The school counsellor failed to help. She said my daughter is not responding to counselling. We are absolutely clueless about what to do. Forcing her seems pointless.

My name is GGVVS, Am 52 yrs old, am weighing about 83 kgs, about 8 yrs back due to increase of Thyroid to 500 units, (detected on doctors advice) I started having constipation issues, it was told that small intestine has become sluggish , due to which my digestion has slowed down, Gas accumilation has increased, Body pains are more dominent ,especially after waking up from sleep in the mornings, concentration distortion. I do walking for 1 hr , suryanamaskar & Yoga every day. Even now am experiencing the same issues on daily basis, inspite of visiting many Gastroentrologists I didn't get any result.Kindly advise me if any solution is availiable .

My 5 YO son is addicted to gadgets. He gets very angry if we switch it off. We have tried to hide the TV remote, change the password on the mobile and set strict rules for TV and gadgets at home. He agrees temporarily. But on the rare occassion he gets it for a few extra minutes on an available device, he displays the same behaviour. How do we fix this?