Q: Hi, Karishma, welcome to Heartfulness Magazine.
Hello, Elizabeth. It's lovely to be talking to you. Thanks for your time.
Q: We're here to talk about your book, Parenting Homo Sapiens: The Seven Eternal Truths for Raising Happy Humans. A great title and a hot topic, so first tell us about yourself, and why you're interested in this.
I'm a wife and mother of two daughters, and we live in Sydney, Australia. After graduating with a medical degree, I worked at Nepean Hospital, and then moved to education at the University of Notre Dame, where I taught medical students.
Right now, I spend most of my time with my children, and am very involved with their education.
Q: Tell us about your book, Karishma.
The inspiration came after the birth of my eldest daughter. I was a young working mother. There was so much information available on parenting, and I was determined to distill the essence of it all.
At that time I worked long hours as a doctor at Nepean Hospital, with very few holidays. The environment required me to suppress the fact that I was also a mother, and commit my full attention to the job. I'm sure many women relate to a high-pressured work environment. Denying my role as a mother at work was very confronting. It made me question what I was doing, and what effect this would have on my children, my husband, my family, and myself.
Are there common threads to effective parenting methods?
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