New Delhi, July 3 -- Being a parent today feels like stepping into a job no one prepared you for, with rules that change every day and expectations that are sky-high yet hard to pin down. Ask any parent raising a GenZ or GenAlpha child, and they will tell you the same thing-it has never been more complicated. Not because children are bad. Not because parents do not care. But because the world around them has changed so much and so quickly that old approaches no longer work and the new ones are dicey.

What once came instinctively to parents is now viewed through a lens of scrutiny by today's children. Setting a boundary feels like issuing a threat. Saying 'no' comes with a pit in the stomach. Raising your voice-out of worry, frustration, ...