to Grow a Soul-The definitive guide raising human

Most parenting books are written about children. This one begins with the parent. To Grow a Soul follows Kartik and Shreya - a modern Indian couple - across two decades of raising their daughter Deepika. From a Bengaluru rooftop where Kartik first asks whether Shreya is Partner Material, through the 3:00 AM silences of early infancy, a child's muddy curiosity, a teenager's closed door, and the driveway where they finally let her go, this is a story before it is a guide. Woven through that story is a map: of the parenting styles that serve each stage of growth, of the parent's own transformation alongside the child, and of how to raise a person who arrives in adulthood emotionally whole and financially capable - because the adults in their home were doing their own work first. "The real reward is a child who doesn't need you, but who chooses you." Dedicated to Aiden Richard Dsouza - the heartbeat behind every word on these pages.