For parents in India · Ages 8–12

When did you last truly reach your child?

Not their grades. Not their schedule. But what is actually going on inside their head — what they are afraid of, what they are carrying, what they wish they could tell you.

Help me build something to help your child. Just an honest conversation.
What parents tell us
"I can see something is wrong — but I can't reach them."
On the wall between parent and child
"I react before I think — and immediately regret it."
On losing control in the moment
"I don't know if my pressure is helping or hurting."
On the guilt of not knowing
If any of this sounds familiar

You are not alone — and it is not too late.

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"There is a wall between us."

Some days it is thin. Other days it feels permanent. You do not know if they are okay or just hiding it from you.

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"I hear my own parents in my voice."

You say something and instantly wish you hadn't. You know the cycle. You just don't know how to stop it.

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"Am I helping or hurting?"

You push because you love them. But you don't know where care ends and damage begins. That uncertainty keeps you up at night.

Meghana in Paris

Paris, 2022 — working abroad while battling severe clinical depression.

Why I am building this
"I was an A+ student my whole life. I traced my clinical depression back to one thing — I had no identity outside of my marks."

Growing up, I believed that if I studied hard and got good marks, life would fall into place. And for a while, it did.

In 2018, I got into my dream university — ESSEC Business School — and moved to Singapore. And that's when everything I had built my identity on quietly began to collapse. Suddenly, marks didn't matter. What mattered was who you are. What you stand for. What your worldview is. And I realised I had no answer to any of those questions.

Clinical depression moved with me — through Singapore, France, Germany. It got worse with every year. Until it got so bad that I quit my job, came back to India, and took a career break just to focus on healing.

During that time, I ran a small workshop for children. A 5th standard girl had an anxiety attack right in front of me — terrified of letting her parents down over her exam marks.

This child was me, twenty years earlier. And nobody had caught it then either.

I am building The Connect Lab because I believe the answer starts not with the child — but with the relationship between the parent and the child. Before I build a single thing, I want to listen to parents like you.

— Meghana · Founder · Bangalore

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