Psychology says children who immediately change the subject after being praised may have complicated feelings about attention

“You did such a good job!” a parent tells their child after seeing a drawing. The child smiles briefly, then starts talking about a cartoon they watched or asks what is for dinner. Another child receives a compliment about a school performance but immediately begins discussing something that went wrong that day. Parents may find…

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‘I had no idea that women don’t get fighters’: As a little girl, Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth ran after jets; today, she is IAF’s first woman Fighter Combat Leader

Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth became the first woman officer in the Indian Air Force to qualify as a Fighter Combat Leader. As a little girl, Bhawana Kanth did not know much about aircraft. She remembers seeing a jet in the sky and running after it, trying to follow it for as long as she could….

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