Srinagar, April 22 -- What if everything a child becomes begins in the quiet corners of a home? Not in the big decisions, but in how a parent looks up when a child enters the room. In the pauses between words. In how arguments end, or don't. We like to think children grow up by themselves. That they figure things out as they go. But the truth is, they watch us. Closely. And they remember more than we think.

Some things are passed down on purpose: bedtime routines, family recipes, the right way to say thank you. But most things come through without notice. A raised voice. A distracted nod. A silence that lasts too long. Parents often raise children the only way they know: by repeating what they saw, what they heard, what once shaped them....