Importance of Co-Parenting in Modern Indian Society: ABP Live
ABP Live has published a piece on the importance of co-parenting in modern Indian society, drawing on ideas from This Book Won’t Teach You Parenting, an Indian parenting book by Riri G. Trivedi and Anagha Nagpal.
This ABP Live article, featuring Riri G. Trivedi, discusses why co-parenting has become essential in today’s Indian households. Traditionally, mothers managed childcare and domestic duties while fathers focused on earning. In recent times, trends have increased where both parents are now working, the families are becoming smaller, more nuclear, with limited support from grandparents. Therefore, one parent can no longer manage everything alone.
Riri Trivedi explains that co-parenting means sharing not only household chores but also emotional, mental, and decision-making responsibilities. The article further highlights how urban India is gradually adapting to and embracing this shift: parents attending workshops, joining school activities, sharing household tasks, and opting for paternity leave or flexible work options.
This book won’t teach ou parenting
It also emphasises that shared parenting helps children feel secure, reduces mothers’ stress, strengthens fathers’ emotional bonds with their kids, and creates more balanced, communicative, and resilient families. She further underscores the vital role of co-parenting by showing how shared responsibility and consistent values between caregivers create a more secure and balanced environment for children in her book: This Book Won’t Teach You Parenting, which can be ordered through major bookstores and online platforms.
Rooted in global research and enriched with real-life stories, this book provides a practical framework for positive parenting within the Indian cultural context. It offers timely, age-appropriate strategies to navigate every stage of your child’s journey. It also guides you in healing from your own childhood wounds and breaking unhelpful patterns through meaningful self-reflection exercises. Ultimately, the book talks about the importance of co-parenting and shared responsibilities, and how it is the need of the hour in Indian households.
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