Soha Ali Khan on why parents should not give children everything they want

Getting a child to pick up a book when there is a television, tablet or phone waiting nearby is hardly an easy parenting battle. Soha Ali Khan knows this well. The actor and mother to daughter Inaaya Naumi Kemmu has admitted that sometimes, getting children to develop a habit they don't naturally enjoy requires a little negotiation- and even a little bribery.In an interview with Tweak India, Soha talked about her parenting approach and said she sometimes tells her daughter, “Inaaya, until you read this book, you can't watch TV.” And she is quite candid about the fact that this is not necessarily a perfect or foolproof strategy.“Sometimes you have to bribe your children, sometimes you have to incentivise them,” Soha said, acknowledging that not every child will automatically grow up loving books.‘Not all of them will be born readers’For Soha, one of the biggest parenting traps is comparing your…