How does a person become indecisive?
Psychology says a few experiences he had as a child.
An example: “Children are very sensitive to the way their parents talk. On the surface, if a parent says she is ‘fine’ but the terse and rigid tone of her voice indicates something else, the child gets confused. This grows on the child’s mind and he becomes indecisive as a teenager.”
This was one of the mysteries unravelled by an expert at a brain seminar, Unravelling the Mystery and Myths of Brain Research, at Rang Sharda Auditorium, Bandra (West), on Sunday. The event was organised to trace back why kids behave in the manner they do and what could be done for the development of their mind.
Many parents along with the teachers of Podar Jumbo attended the seminar and were apparently benefited by it. They got to know how cautious they should be during the formative years of their children.
Sujata Auddy, a mother of two, said she would be very careful while reacting to her three-year-old daughter’s mistakes. Auddy said she understood that if she were not careful, it would affect her child’s personality in the long run.
Similarly, Rashmi Punjabi, a mother of three-year-old, said she learnt in the seminar that children should not be woken up in a way that will make then rigid and irritable when they grow up.
Swati Popat Wats, president of Podar education network, said: “After a spate of suicides, we wanted to look into what affects our children. We discovered the problem lies in the way they are brought up and their minds develop.”
Dr Anne Rushton, brain research and personality analyst and professor of education at the University of South Florida, was also one of the speakers at the seminar. “Through such seminars,
we try to tell parents the powerful impact they have on their children. For example, if they put fear in their children’s minds, they
develop problem in learning and can’t retain what they study.”
According to psychiatrist Harish Shetty, such seminars can do wonders for children and their parents.
“Parents should make their children aware of the infinite capacity of the brain and its functions. It’s an unexplored organ and the parents should motivate their children to use it to its fullest,” said Shetty.
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