WALKING LESSONS

When is the best time to teach a child? Most parents spend years searching for that answer checking calendars, moods, exam schedules, and emotional readiness. And in the process, they unknowingly postpone the most important lessons. In Walking Lessons: Why Children Learn Best When Life Slows Down, Dr. Abhishek Gilara reveals a simple but powerful truth: children learn best when no one is trying to teach them. Drawing from lived experience, neuroscience, and the author’s previous work on discipline, environment, and presence, this book explores: • Why waiting for the “right time” often means missing the real one • How holidays reset the nervous system for parents and children alike • Why long walks dissolve hierarchy and invite honest conversation • How values are transmitted through shared moments, not lectures • Why children remember presence longer than destinations This is not a parenting manual. It is a shift in perspective. Because sometimes, the greatest lessons are learned not in classrooms, not in conversations, but between two footsteps  when life finally slows down enough to listen.