Nepal, April 5 -- No one likes a nag and no one like being a nag. But where children come into the picture, concern, mostly a lot of it, inevitably turns parents into a nag. There's no guide to parenting. Everyone does what they believe is best for their child. And it's no simple feat; that much is true. It's perhaps the trickiest of skills there is, one that really can't ever be mastered.

"You go by instinct. No parent will do anything that will harm their child," says Kiran Khadka, a mother of two boys who is also a part time UCMAS instructor at Ambition Academy. Khadka's sentiment is a common one, but parenting, most confess, isn't as simple or clear cut as she makes it sound.

To ensure their children's lives are smooth, many parents...