What 'label' does your child carry ?

No one knows a child better than his own parents. They watch their child speak, move, spit, squat. They can read his gestures like no one. They know their child in and out. And they are the ones who have the license to analyze and give him labels like 'happy', 'aggressive', 'creative', 'stubborn', ' fearful', 'irritable', 'shy', 'intelligent', and so on.

This label is what the world begins to believe your child is. Most important, your child will identify himself by not what he feels he is, but by what label his parents have given him. Tell your child is an achiever, and he'll be. Tell him he is a loser, and he'll lose all the battles of his life.

Your labels keep changing as your child grows up. What once you thought is a meek, fearful girl now doesn't let you enter the mall till you let her do bungee jumping! Now you have discovered that your child is not a 'lamb' after all. So when these labels cannot stand the test of time, why not give your child a label you want your child to be? Believe your child is loving, caring, happy go lucky, witty, gutsy, and see your child will become so. All this doesn't mean that you expect your child to be perfect, no human being is. He will always have his limitations. But if you as parents look at his positive traits, he is bound to give less importance to his weaknesses and more importance to his strengths. That again doesn't mean that your child can overlook the negative shades of his personality and never improve upon them. But to motivate him for improvement, you don't have to demean and belittle your child. Your positive label will empower him with the motivation and the confidence to be present to his weaknesses and not let them overpower his personality.

The label you give to your child is the ultimate truth of his life. When he grows up and tries to assert his identity as contrary to what you have labeled him, he might become successful but will never be able to shed the label you have given him. It becomes his shadow. Even if he becomes the CEO of a multinational, your label of being 'good for nothing' will always be on the back of his mind.


I have always seen my elder son as a shy and quiet boy. After 19 years, he hasn't changed. He will not. But I have never fought his shyness but always looked at the maturity with which he handled every situation in his life. Today my son is not conscious of his shyness, but of the perseverance and tolerance that has built up in him. He is proud of himself because somewhere all our life, we have always been proud of who he is.

About The Principal
Mrs. Sudha Gupta is an educationist par excellence and a visionary with a difference. Her expansive vision encompasses children, parents, teachers and the society as a whole. ‘To create a better world' is precisely how she explains her vision.

She has done extensive work in the field of education for the past 11 years. As the chairperson of 15 branches strong chain of preschools known as Mother's Pride, she has propagated the concept of holistic education that focuses on overall development of children namely academics, life skills and talents. To bring the concept of holistic education to formal education, she established Presidium with a unique vision of ‘Be what you want to be'.

Being a renowned educationist herself, she knew that only happy and motivated teachers could make her vision a reality. This led to the conception of ‘The Knowledge Tree', an academy which imparts new age expertise and skills required in teaching and school management. ‘Leaders in education' and not teachers is what she aims to produce.

Sudha Gupta is also one of the nation's most sought after parenting expert. As the chairperson of Mother's Pride chain of pre-nursery schools and Principal of Presidium Senior Secondary School, Sudha Gupta uses her 11 years of experience of dealing with parents and children to pen down some inspiring tips of positive parenting. She has conducted research on thousands of children and parents to reach some very effective methods of parenting. Sudha Gupta has written more than 1000 articles on the subject of parenting in leading newspapers and magazines like Times of India, Hindustan Times, India Today and Femina. She has authored several books on early childhood education and parenting, Celebrate Childhood and Jingling Rhymes to name a few. Her seminars, publications, T.V. and radio programs on parenting have transformed thousands of parents of Mother's Pride and Presidium, her staff of more than a thousand members and over a million of readers and listeners.

Mrs. Sudha Gupta plays another role with aplomb, that of a humanitarian through the NGO Sparsh. The NGO has so far touched the lives of millions of children, the elderly and women who have been victim of life and circumstance. Her next dream is to create a school for mentally challenged children as soon as possible.

Mrs. Sudha Gupta's work speaks louder than her words but it is an inspiration for everyone when she says ‘I want to leave this world a little better than I found it'.