India, Jan. 27 -- I was looking through some parenting content on Google recently when the picture of a 'family' from a children's book popped up. It showed a child with a mother, a father and 2 grandparents standing together, all smiles.

While it was a beautiful picture, it had me worried. Would my child, too, be growing up learning that only this is what a family looks like?

Research shows that early learning in children is of immense significance. It is during these years that kids are like sponges, absorbing every piece of information around them, getting ready cognitively, emotionally, and socially for their lives ahead.

We shouldn't hide truth from children

What they see and hear at this age, with their brains learning and devel...