tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57327628946453661692024-03-18T03:21:36.747-07:00Swati Popat Vats - KiducationDr. Swati Popat Vatshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13238068978053483659noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732762894645366169.post-40792919306186995902020-03-17T02:43:00.002-07:002020-03-17T02:43:58.245-07:00Incorporating the work of India’s pioneer early childhood educators into contemporary preschools.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Dear Educator,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Here is my full keynote
given at the ECE conference of Education World In Mumbai - 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Incorporating
the work of India’s pioneer early childhood educators into contemporary
preschools.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Its time to be
‘Glocal’, especially in early childhood education. Its time to know what the
latest global research advices about early care and education but it is equally
important to understand that at the sensitive age of zero to six years it is
the child’s mother tongue and culture that will have a lasting impact on
learning (cognitive, socio-emotional) for life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So while we are
aware of Froebel, Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner as the leaders in early
years education, what we should also be aware about is the history or evolution
of early years care and education in our own country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">There were
pioneers who took the best of research from around the world and adapted it for
Indian culture and children. As early childhood educators it is time we know
about their work, incorporate it, benefit from it and celebrate it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The four pioneer
early childhood educators who I feel we should read about and learn from for
our contemporary preschool work are: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gijubhai
Badeka, Rabindranath Tagore, Tarabai Modak- Anutai Wagh and Mahatma Gandhi.</b>
Of course there are many others too but lets begin with understanding their
work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Around the 1920’s the first foundations of early
childhood education were being created in our country. Rabindranath Tagore
backed the Montessori philosphy and started the Tagore Montessori schools
across the country. Meanwhile Gijubhai a lawyer did not want his child to go
through the same traditional education in school that he had suffered through.
He read up on everything to do with early childhood education and parenting and
was greatly impressed with the work of Maria Montessori. He was fondly called ‘Moochali
Maa’ (mother with a moustache!) by the children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Montessori influenced and inspired Gijubhai,
but he adopted only those ideas that were possible to be implemented in India.
One of the first things we can learn from Gijubhai perhaps is that it is good
to be influenced by global practices but <b>Adapt, don’t adopt global practices
blindly.</b> In 1920 Gijubhai Badheka set up the first Bal Mandir or early
childhood education center. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In most schools the teacher waits for the
children to greet them and say, ‘Good morning’, etc. but Gijubhai would greet
every child at the door with their name, both at the beginning and end of the
school day. It is after all relationships between students and teacher that
brings true passion and interest in learning. <b>Be the first to greet children
in school, its not always about them saying, “good morning teacher”.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gijubhai believed that any concert that the
children put up to showcase their talents to parents, should be work done
completely by the children in school. The kids put up their own annual day
show, related to what they have learnt. An annual show should showcase what the
children have enjoyed and learned throughout the year, they should be the
directors, actors, designers of props etc. Sadly today annual days in schools
have become song and dance extravaganza, choreographed by professionals! <b>Maybe
its time we rethink about making our end of the year annual concerts more about
children. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gijubhai was against corporal punishment and
even created a ‘vanar sena’ a group of children that would look out for
children who were beaten at home or by teachers and then report to Gijubhai who
would intervene and educate the adults about the negative impacts of corporal
punishment. Child Abuse starts at home and we should safeguard children from
this because ‘touch should never become trouble’ for a child. The Early
Childhood Association recently conducted a survey and found that parents still
spank children, its time for a community conscience, <b>its time to say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">#I will not</i>, to spanking and corporal
punishment <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In schools. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Most educators and schools have lost track of educational goals in their
quest to fill their school with children and their cupboards with student
achievement trophies! Its time to revisit this poem written by Gijubhai Badheka
and make it our vision and mission statement. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">This
Will Not Do…In Our School</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">(Excerpts
from Prathmikshalama Shikshak,first<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>published in 1932, written by Gijubhai Badeka)</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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will do if the walls in our school are not covered with paint. It will not do
if there is dust and cobwebs in corners.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will do if the floors are not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>covered by
carpets.It will not do if there is litter and dirt strewn on them.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will do if there is not a laboratory full of fancy equipment .It will not do if
the little equipment<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that is available
is not ever used.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will do if there is not a great big library.It will not do if there are not at
least a few books that children would enjoy reading.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will do if we are not great scholars.It will not do if we cannot give our
children due respect, and an environment that encourages their development.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will do if we are not constantly engaged in ‘teaching’ children. It will not do
if we interfere in their activities or threaten or force them to sit down to
study.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Tarabai Modak was
a social worker from Maharashtra; she also served as a Principal of a Women’s
college in Rajkot. Inspired by Gijubhai’s experiments she joined him in his
work in his balwadi. Together they started a training college for pre primary
teachers in 1925, which proved to be first training college for pre primary
teachers in India. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And sadly till today
India does not have a common Early Childhood Teacher Training Course, like it
has the B.Ed. course. The new National Education Policy has included early
years but has not defined a common early years teacher training program,
whereas we had one as early as 1925!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">On hearing a
criticism that preschool education was meant only for the rich children,
Tarabai took this up as a challenge and conducted a Balwadi in a Harijanwada at
Amravati in Maharashtra. In 1936, she started Shishu Vihar Kendra at Bombay,
which was a centre of Pre School Educational training. In 1945, she moved to
Bordi & founded Gram Bal Shiksha Kendra. Later she moved in 1957 to <strong><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Kosabad,</span></strong> tribal
area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tarabai Modak and Sarla Devi
Sarabhai (PSE worker) were called one of the two “ Montessori Mothers” as they
have Indianized the Montessori education and popularized it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tarabai
pioneered the concept of balwadi - a centre for preschool children. She started
two types of balwadis at Bordi - Central Balwadis and Angan Balwadis. The
central balwadis were run for five hours, had all essential educational
materials and children were brought from their homes to the balwadis. The angan
balwadis on the other hands were conducted in front of the parents in their courtyards;
teachers would carry simple material and conduct songs and games on hygiene,
cleanliness, oral language etc. Anutai Wagh was a professional colleague of Tarabai
Modak and she along with Modak pioneered a programme whose curriculum was
indigenous, used low cost teaching aids and was aimed at holistic development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The concept of anganwadi in the
ICDS scheme has been drawn from her work. And the inspiration that we can take
from her work is that all children deserve a good education start to their
lives. Its time for a public- private partnership to achieve this. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rabindranath
Tagore backed the Montessori pedagogy and established 'Tagore <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Montessori</span>' <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">schools</span> across the country in the
1940s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tagore wrote extensively on
education and his story, ‘Tota Kahini’ (Parrot’s Training) is a satire on the
education system and is sadly still relevant today. In 1929 the first International
Montessori Congress was organised in Denmark. Tagore travelled to Denmark to
attend this Congress and did you know that Jean Piaget was also part of this
Congress! In 1940 when Montessori came to India, Tagore welcomed her with a
letter. Tagore believed that education should begin with the training of
instincts, emotions, self-reliance and co-operation. Then art, music and play
should be introduced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Today we take so many inspirations
from global curriculum methods, but he advocated the following methods of
teaching almost a century ago, which I think are so relevant even today for
curriculum developers and educational boards designing their curriculum, both
nationally and internationally. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Peripatetic method:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> He
was concerned with the association between body and mind in order to establish
a total rhythm and harmony in life. The children should be taught drama and
arts as compulsory subjects from the beginning. This is because the children
need the opportunity to give expression to their feelings through their bodily
movements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gave emphasis for activity method. He wanted children to understand the
concepts through performing activities. For example to understand a verb
“tear”, he used to make the children to tear some papers to master the concept
of tearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Environmental approach:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> He
emphasized teaching through environment. He included more number of nature
walks to teach the concepts for younger children. He believed in providing
first hand experiences to children in their learning process through nature. The
modern approach of learning by organizing “nature trails, in the subject of
environmental studies are similar to the ideas of Tagore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Its
time to learn from Tagore and recognise that children are not unfinished adults
and that the difference between children and adults requires different methods
of learning.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">In
1937 the scheme for new education or Nai Talim was introduced, but it was in
1944 that Mahatma Gandhi realized the importance of early childhood
education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>"The real education
begins from conception, as the mother begins to take up the responsibility of
the child. It is very clear that if this new education is to be effective, its
foundation must go deeper, it must begin not with the children but the parents
and the community." <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He gave the term 'Pre-Basic</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Education' for the education of children under seven
years of age.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pre-basic education, he said, must aim at
"the development of all their faculties, conducted by</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the school teachers in cooperation with
the parents and the community in schools, in</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the home and in the village." <i>"We labour
under a sort of superstition that the child</i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">has nothing to learn during the first five years of
its life. On the contrary, the fact is</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the child never learns in after life what it does in
its first five years.” </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
Pre-basic school is geared to the needs of the following four groups of children:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the mother and the child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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years of age are provided stimulating play activities. They are free to act, to
move about and to choose their own activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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participates in activities like cleaning the classroom, measuring and weighing
things, and other similar activities. '<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">It is so heartening that the above
is incorporated in the new NCERT preschool curriculum and the National
Education Policy. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As we struggle to force handwriting skills on
preschoolers, we must remember what Mahatma Gandhi had to say about the teaching
of handwriting to young children, maybe this would cure us from our obsession
to ensure that children write before they can read or understand!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“ I consider writing as a fine art. We
kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning
of learning. Good handwriting is a necessary part of education, but I am now of
the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before
learning how to write. Let the child learn letters by observation, as he/she
does different objects such as flowers, birds etc. and let him learn handwriting
only after he has learnt to ‘draw’ objects. First teach the child to draw
straight lines, curves, triangles, birds, flowers, leaves, as that would help
the child to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">draw and not to scrawl
alphabets</b>! Children should be taught to read before they learn to write.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope
curriculum designers are reading this, it is also mentioned in our new NCERT
preschool curriculum, so download a copy and match your preschool curriculum to
it to ensure that what these ECE pioneers worked so hard to prove is being practiced
in our schools so that our children grow up learning what is developmentally
appropriate. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All the ideas like experiential learning, hands on learning, play way, that
we are bringing in our schools and thinking that they are new, were already practiced
by our ECE pioneers even before independence.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Its time to revisit, relearn about them and stop reinventing the wheel!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Or at least stop giving credit for the wheel to others!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Its time to celebrate our Indian ECE pioneers. Here are some books written
by them that you can read for more inspiration and learning:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mahatma Gandhi</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">- </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Basic education </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Early
Childhood Association and Association for Primary Education and Research in
partnership with Education World are proud to announce an Educators Pilgrimage
to visit the inspirational places and works of these 4 ECE pioneers: Gijubhai
Badheka, Tarabai Modak, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. Join us on this
immersive education pilgrimage. More details are given in this issue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 8.0pt;">This article is written by Dr. Swati Popat
Vats, a passionate crusader for the upliftment of early childhood education in
our country, for ALL children. She is the President of the Early Childhood
Association and Association for Primary Education and Research and is also the
President of Podar Education Network where she heads 500 early childhood centres
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Day 2 after the article in Mumbai Mirror was published about the teenagers who crossed all boundaries of decent behaviour!<br />
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<li>Parents of ‘those’ boys must introspect, how did that cherubic baby that they held in their arms when it was born turn into this devil without boundaries spewing these sick things! Reflect at what stage and age did you go wrong and then rectify it going forward. </li>
<li>Other parents- did you discuss this incident with your young boys and girls? Please don’t think they don’t know about it. Its best to sit down with them face to face and without going into gory details make it clear to them that this kind of a behaviour is not acceptable and if they are indulging in something similar then they should admit right now or if they know if someone in their circle is doing something similar. </li>
<li>Schools its time for you to get strict too- have a meeting with your PTA, student council and come out with a better reporting mechanism so that such things can be nipped in the bud and maybe draft some rules and repercussions about such deeds. Words and actions that are not allowed for students and make parents follow them too. </li>
<li>Impulse control, self-regulation, empathy, the ability to understand right from wrong, moral values, logical thinking and courage not to bow down to bullies- these are the things that went wrong in this case. These are essential life skills; these are what make the difference between a good citizen and a criminal! Time for schools to assess if they are covering these essential life skills in their ‘curriculum’. Time for parents to assess themselves if they are covering these life lessons in their parenting.</li>
<li>Time to also think about a more pertinent punishment for the boys rather than just removing them from the school. They will only become another school’s problem. </li>
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Its time for schools and parents to start working together instead of working against each other. After all is our future that is at stake here.<br />
Dr. Swati Popat Vats<br />
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Mumbai city woke up today to a shocking story about how 11 to 14 year old boys were sending messages on whatsapp that were sexually derogatory against the girls in their class. I came to know about the story quite early when my whatsapp starting buzzing with messages from educators, who asked, “which school?” Shame on us for wanting to know which school, rather than wanting to understand what is going wrong with our children and us as a society!<br />
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I read many blog posts and social media posts about the article and here are some comments that I found particularly offensive and confusing-<br />
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<li>“We should thrash our children left, right and centre and they will then not indulge in such thrash!”- Written by a very educated parent, it suggests that because we are not beating our children, they are behaving this way and that by beating them; they would stop indulging in such things! Height of, sorry to say, but stupidity and illogical thinking! You hit kids, they retaliate, and they don’t conform! They either fear and face mental issues or they become offensive and indulge more.</li>
<li>“We need to talk more about sex, we are not open as a society and that is why our children are indulging in these things!” –incorrect again! Ancient Indian temples had erotic carvings that were quite explicit and left nothing about sex and erotism to the imagination. Do you think there were no rapes in those times? There were!</li>
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As a sociology student we had a subject called Women and Society and the history of women in society was about being considered a property through whom the lineage of any culture or society would grow and progress. So it was the woman who was exchanged for territory, money, power and it was the woman who was raped when you wanted to show your power over a particular community or people or adulterate the lineage of any community or sect. Disgusting, but go through the history of rape and this is what is common in ancient communities around the world.<br />
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What is the reason our boys and men are behaving the way they are?<br />
Are we failing as parents and educators? Are we too closed up about sex as a society? Is there too much of porn being viewed? Should movies stop item numbers? Should we make prostitution more available?<br />
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The solution is not so easy and will have to begin first in the family, with the parents.<br />
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<li>Children need to see women being respected in the family, having a voice and children need to see equality being practiced in the family. </li>
<li>Neither the boy nor the girl should be seen as being favoured or more important. Its time for parents to start being sensitive to gender bias and gender equality in every decision they make about their children and themselves. </li>
<li>Children need to hear their parents and their friends and relatives talk respectfully about women and girls. Be alert about anyone in your circle talking flippantly about girls or women. And please do not ask young toddlers and children whether their friend is their ‘boy/girl friend’..’Will you marry her/him’…its so sick, that at that young age you are turning every relationship with the other gender into an intimate relationship.</li>
<li>If you are fond of watching porn, ensure that your children never, ever find any trace of it. It’s serious! Children can never get over the fact that their parents watch porn! And that leaves a huge impact on them. </li>
<li>When your child first asks you about porn or when you feel your children may be knowing about porn, probe with questions to find out what they know instead of being shocked and throwing a tantrum and making them feel ashamed about it. </li>
<li>Explain to your children what is porn and what are your family’s rules about porn. </li>
<li>Do’s and don’t about sex, sexual language, sexual references, sexual talk etc. should be discussed with your children, if you find them or their friends misusing it or abusing it.</li>
<li>Children don’t become horrible adolescents over night! It is the same toddler that is now a teenager! So are you there when the child is growing up? Are you bonding with your child daily? Or do you just talk about studies and marks? That drives the worst wall between parents and children, when parents only talk to children to criticise them. </li>
<li>When you give a phone or allow children to use social media and the net, it should be with a condition, that you would regularly check it in front of them to monitor their use. Yes, you can and should do it as you are a parent and the child is a minor till age 18! Nothing to be shy about, better than thrashing the child!!</li>
<li>Know your children’s friends…all friends. </li>
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In the case of these 11 and 14 year olds, they are not inventing this kind of language! They have definitely heard either their parents or other adults talk derogatorily about women and sex. Or they have seen content that taught them that women and girls are just for sex and you can hurt them with sex. It is a sign of dominant ideology of patriarchy that is clear in their behaviour and that does not come from your genes, it is learnt and imitated behaviour gone unchecked and uncorrected for a very long time. If these boys had been taught to respect and if respect was given the highest priority in their behaviour they would have never ever broken the ‘taught’ boundary of respect. Its time not only to counsel them but their parents too.<br />
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It’s also time to make children understand about consequences and that again will be easier to teach from childhood. It is part of impulse control and self-regulation, and needs to be an integral part of our upbringing and education of children.<br />
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Its time for parents and schools to regularly check the ‘mental’ content of children to understand if the content these young brains carry is age and developmentally appropriate and if not then to take immediate counselling action to ensure that we sensitise and sanitise their brains about sex, sexual behaviour and gender respect.<br />
Dr. Swati Popat Vats<br />
Parenting mentor<br />
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understand that this will be a science topic to develop scientific thinking in
children so avoid making the objects ‘talk’ as it confuses children and does
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must know when to teach with stories and puppets and when to teach facts. (For
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logical- mathematical, bodily kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal and
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">3.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">What is ISRO- Indian
space research organisation- it is based in Bangalore (show CORRECT map of
India, see if they know where it is) </span></div>
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4.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">You can also show them
website of ISRO if required- </span><a href="http://www.isro.gov.in/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">www.isro.gov.in</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">
here it is important to teach children that when we receive some news on
whatsapp we should double check with the ISRO website to know the real facts.
(This is called seeking evidence, this will be our way of laying the foundation
of teaching children about fake news.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">5.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Point to picture of Dr.
Shiven ISRO head and hundred’s of scientists worked on Chandrayan-1 and 2
missions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">6. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Here many children may
talk about how our PM was consoling/hugging Dr. Shiven. Good opportunity to
talk about emotions. That it is ok to feel sad and be upset when we fail or
think we are not going to be successful or get what we wanted and the best way
to cope with such emotions is to cry or talk to someone and that is what you
see happening. It is ok for everyone to cry. (In many areas you may get
children who may say that it is sissy to cry or boys don’t cry, so use this
opportunity to teach that crying is a way of showing your emotion just like you
smile or laugh when happy, similarly you cry when upset, nothing wrong and
everyone can cry, even boys and men)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">7.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Why is the Indian
mission named Chandrayan? It means “Moon Craft” in Sanskrit language.
(Ancient-oldest language of India)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">8.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Just like you have an
aircraft this is a moon craft. It was the size of a refrigerator</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">9.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">What was chandrayan-1?
It was the first orbiter sent to the moon and orbited around the moon from a
distance (100kms to 200 kms)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">10.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">India launched
Chandrayan-1 in 2008 and it brought back pictures of water on the moon- slabs
of water ice buried in the craters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">11.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">So India launched
Chandrayan -2</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">12.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">That is why Chandrayan
-2 mission has a rover to physically land on the moon to explore this evidence
of water.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">13.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">India wanted to explore
the south pole by doing a soft landing of its robot- vikram lander</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">14.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">What is chandrayan-2
mission? Chandrayan- 2 is India’s moon mission to explore the southern side of
the moon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">15.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">It was launched from
Satish Dhawan Space center- Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh on July 22 (show
CORRECT map of India, see if they know where it is)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">16. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Chandrayan-2 has an
orbiter, lander and rover to explore the unexplored south pole of moon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">17.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">So the chandrayan-2
orbiter has already reached the moon and is orbiting around it</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">18.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">The orbiter has a
camera and it is like the camera on a mobile phone but much better with very
high resolution</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">19.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">It will work on solar
power</span></div>
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20.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">The chandrayan-2 also had a lander with an rover</span></div>
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21.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">The lander is named
vikram and the rover is named Pragyan</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">22.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Vikram lander was to
make a soft landing on the moon and release Pragyan rover who would then be
active for 14 days exploring the physical moon surface.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">23.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">On September 7<sup>th</sup>
at 1.53 am the vikram lander came very close to the moon but a little away from
landing it lost communication with ISRO</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">24.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">So presently we don’t
know what is the situation of vikram lander and pragyan rover. It could have
landed</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">we don’t know as we have lost
communication with it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">25.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Here it is very
important that you don’t say anything that is not a fact, don’t say it is
destroyed or crashed etc. give facts that are evidence based only.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">26.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">How was ISRO
communicating with Chandrayan-2? With a high velocity signal there was
communication through data. So its not like they were connected with a mobile
phone or TV. It would send messages in codes to ISRO that the scientists would
then decode.</span></div>
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around the moon and took pictures from a distance (100- 200 kms) whereas
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">When vikram would have
landed on the moon, Pragyan rover attached to Vikram’s door would be exposed to
the sun after the door opens. Soon after getting solar energy the rover’s
battery would be activated. The rover has 6 wheels with our tricolour and an
ISRO logo embossed on it. It would move at a speed of 1 cm per second and use
navigation cameras to scan its surroundings. The scanned data would be sent to
Vikram to send to ISRO, as Pragyan does not have its own signalling system.
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stamping or embossing the Asoka emblem, singing songs and rhymes, making the
models of the Chandrayan, Vikram and Pragyan etc. And helping children express
by drawing (don’t forge to document their drawings).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All the best, lets make
children aware about Chandrayan-2 and use it to teach ‘academic skills’ the
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Independence Day is on the 15th of August and not the 14th of August!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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We teach children about our
independence history, (I hope all schools still teach this!) we teach them
about the sacrifices made by Indians to help us achieve the freedom that we now
enjoy, and to show our solidarity to each other as citizens of this country. I
am sure we teach children about our Independence<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so that they grow up valuing their past,
savour and enjoy their present, and can make the right decisions about their
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But then we send very mixed
messages when we celebrate Independence Day on the 14th of August, just for our
convenience! Did our freedom fighters see their convenience? Would we be
enjoying the democratic life we now do, if they had thought about their
convenience? Many schools celebrate India’s Independence Day on the 14th of
August, forgetting that India got its freedom at midnight on the 14th, so it
was 15th of August. Pakistan celebrates its independence day on the 14th, not
India. So sorry to say but shame on those who look at their convenience and
celebrate India’s Independence Day on the 14th, just so that they can enjoy a
holiday! <o:p></o:p></div>
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What kind of a message are we
sending to our children, when we see our convenience instead of our duty? What
kind of a message are we sending to our children when we don’t give importance
to the most important day of our country? And then we say that the young
generation has no values, has no sense of belonging. But didn’t they learn this
from us? Who was their role model?<o:p></o:p></div>
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This time Independence Day and
Rakshabandhan fall on the same day. Rakshabandhan is the celebration of the
bond between a brother and sister; blessings and promises are exchanged on that
day between a brother and sister. Many schools are forgoing Independence Day
celebrations this year so that they and their staff can celebrate
Rakshabandhan. Why should it be an ‘or’, why can’t we celebrate both? It takes
10 minutes to hoist the flag, sing the national anthem and pay your tribute to
country. Come on, educators, if education is why you have set up your school or
are a teacher, then Independence Day and Republic day are your teaching
moments. To teach children that we have a duty towards our nation, to teach
children that if we want to enjoy the freedom that we have then it is our
responsibility to acknowledge the country that has given us that freedom. Bond
with your country and then every personal bond will be cherished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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There are thousands of soldiers
at our borders who don’t get to celebrate Rakshabandhan or other festivals with
their family. They forgo all that to keep us safe while we get the freedom to
cherish and relish our relationships and celebrations. What if all our soldiers
saw their convenience? <o:p></o:p></div>
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As a proud Indian citizen and an
educator I appeal to all of you, stand up for your country proudly every
Independence day…15th of August…and look with pride at the tricolour and sing
the national anthem with gusto. Then go home and tie a Rakhi or get a Rakhi
tied! In years to come maybe Eid or Ganapati or Onam or Pateti etc. will be on
the 15th of August, don’t choose, celebrate both…the sense of pride and freedom
of your country and your personal, religious celebration. Jai Hind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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takes a village to raise a child is a well known quote but I feel in India it
should be- The village should raise every child! Because in India our private
preschools cater to and do a fairly good job for the children enrolled , but
that is just 20% of our child population. The other 80% do not have access to
any early childhood education program or have access to but is not of the
quality that it should be. Our country proudly runs the largest Integrated
Child Development Services (ICDS) or called Anganwadis. But these were
established and remain primarily health and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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presently as a health and welfare unit- education is missing.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sevikas are not qualified in ECE but given training as and when.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of a curriculum draft, our ICDS are ill-equipped to follow it due to lack of
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year the ASAR reports laments the fact that our fifth or eight standard
children cannot even read a second standard reading activity etc. This will
continue to happen unless we focus on early years education because </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">attendance at a quality preschool from age three
predicted better outcomes in English, science, and math when compared with
children that had not attended preschool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Analysis of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
also shows that in most countries, students who had attended at least one year
of early learning perform better than those who had not, accounting for
students’ socioeconomic background (OECD, 2015, p. 326).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What is the importance and impact of early years
education?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It helps children develop the Potential to think
rationally</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Persist with challenge </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Use
language</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suppress impulse</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Regulate
emotion </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Respond<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
others’ distress</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cooperate with peers, develop Cognitive and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>social skills </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, develop </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Healthy
habits. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And hence, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the vast differences in the early experiences of a
child in the ICDS program and a private program make it unlikely that the two
children will ever perform equivalently in school and later employment arena.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Its
time to invest in early childhood education, especially in our ICDS program to
ensure that we take care of the other brain drain! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An oft asked question- is there any research to prove
that investing in quality early childhood education programs help a country?
The answer is, yes, read the Heckman report. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">James J. Heckman </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor
of Economics at the University of Chicago, a Nobel laureate in economics and an
expert in the economics of human development.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> He </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">uncovered
a new way of looking at the full picture of the development of human potential.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to him </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">there is too much focus on the development of
cognitive skills where knowledge can be tested,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">rather
than on the development of social skills—such as attentiveness, persistence and
working with others. When social skills are combined at an early age with cognitive
skills, they help create more capable and productive citizens.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Every child needs effective early childhood
development to be successful, but disadvantaged children are least likely to
get it. Professor Heckman has proven that investing in the early childhood
development of disadvantaged children will produce great returns to individuals
and society in better education, health, economic and social outcomes—not only
saving taxpayers money but increasing our nation’s economic productivity.
Everyone gains when we invest, develop and sustain the early development of
America’s greatest natural resource—its people.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He highlighted the following benefits of ECE</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reduced
costs in remedial education, healthcare, and criminal justice participation
down the line.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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helps develop the early building blocks of educational success – learning
colours and numbers, understanding patterns, realizing that printed words hold
meaning. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
socializes children. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Any
language, hearing or developmental problems a child may have are picked up
early.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">America tried it and here is the proof- The Hechinger
Report- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #323130; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
Hechinger Report provided an update about data collected from the Perry
Preschool Project, explaining first the history of the project: “Nearly 60
years ago, a handful of 3-and-4-year-old black children living in a small city
outside of Detroit attended a preschool program known as the Perry Preschool
Project. The children were part of an experiment to see if a high-quality
educational experience in a child’s early years could raise IQ scores.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #323130; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">“Led
for the last decade by Nobel Laureate James Heckman, an economist at the
University of Chicago, the Perry researchers have also looked at school success
in terms of persistence to graduation, work success in terms of job retention
and life success in terms of physical health and healthy relationships. Perry
Preschool children did better on all of these measures than a randomly selected
group of their peers who did not attend the preschool.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #323130; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The latest results from this long-running
study, released on May 14, 2019, indicate that children of the now
50-to-55-year old Perry participants reaped the same benefits…67 percent of the
adult children of Perry participants completed high school without a
suspension, compared to just 40 percent of the children of non-participants.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Other countries have also starting investing in early
years education- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Countries like USA, UK, Australia, and many others
have universalized Early Childhood Education. Most of these countries have made
it free at least for 15 hours a week or at least one year of ECE Programs. They
did this, as they wanted every child to benefit from early childhood care and
education so that ‘where you are born’ does not decide ‘where you start from’.
It means equal opportunities to every child. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Where you start from does not determine how far you can
go-</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gaps in knowledge and ability between disadvantaged
children and their more advantaged peers open up long before kindergarten, tend
to persist throughout life, and are difficult and costly to close. Taking a
proactive approach to cognitive and social skill development through
investments in quality early childhood programs is more effective and
economically efficient than trying to close the gap later on.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The rate of return for investments in quality early
childhood development for disadvantaged children is 7-10% per annum through
better outcomes in education, health, sociability, economic productivity and
reduced crime. There’s a growing recognition of the value of investing in
quality early childhood programs. It’s time to act on the evidence. The sooner
we do, the more likely we will be to put our country on the road to greater
prosperity that is shared by all.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>If for every rupee invested we get back 7 rupees then
how is it not economically viable? The problem is, in India, Childcare and
Early Childhood Education (ECE) is traditionally viewed from welfare or
education perspective, its time we viewed it from an economic perspective. A
perspective that countries like USA, UK, Australia and many others have </b></span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>benefited</b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b> from. </b></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At last years Education World ECE conference in
Bengaluru, ECA has recommended Public private partnerships for upliftment of
the Anganwadi program- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Teacher
training in ICDS and Balwadis, is completely ignored right now, needs to be
outsourced. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Curriculum
management to be given to a private partner.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some incentives in tax and rent to private partners who then ensure the smooth
running of a number of centers regulated by a private body like ECA.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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model of giving balwadis and anganwadis to NGO to run also needs regulatory
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curriculum model and teacher training instead of the present fragmented level
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The world is taking ECE
seriously, its time India invested in its youngest citizens, who are not the
vote bank but are definitely future nation builders. Let us invest in our
children…all our children because how each one of them is brought up will
impact all of them and us! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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believe that each of us must come to care about everyone else’s children. We
must come to see that the well being of our own individual children is
intimately linked to the well being of all other people’s children. After all
when one of our children needs life saving surgery, someone else’s child will
perform it, when one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence in the
streets, someone else’s child will inflict it. The good life for our own
children can be secured if it is also secured for all other people’s children”</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Shri Narendra Modiji that its time to adopt the slogan <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Sab Bachho ka bhala…desh<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ka vikas!</u></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">When I was a preschool teacher, all the
‘naughty’ children were put in my class! And I loved to have them, because I
would try and solve the mystery of each child’s ‘naughtiness’. Today ‘naughty’
children are called ‘aggressive’. Any child is labeled aggressive, if the child
cannot sit straight while you are telling a story- aggressive! If the child
cannot share- aggressive! If the child pushes someone in the park- aggressive!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">It is important that parents and teachers
understand child development because then they would know what behavior is age
appropriate and what needs to be looked into for modification. For example when
children in the ages of 2 to 4 years push someone, it is because they lack
impulse control and cannot wait for their turn. By age 5 children have learnt
social manners and have an understanding of ‘not to hurt others’. So when a 3
year old pushes we need to handle it differently, from when a 5 year old or an
8 year old pushes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Children get aggressive for many reasons, but
the two most<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>important reasons are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lack of attention and too much attention.
When a child feels ignored a child usually reacts aggressively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a child is spoilt, then the child wants
attention all the time and when that attention is divided or late in coming the
child reacts aggressively. It important for adults to make a distinction
between the two<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as the first one needs
love and the second one needs firmness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Signs of aggression-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">depression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">inability or disinterest in
activities and people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">not looking at you when you talk
to them <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">shouting, screaming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Pushing others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hitting and harming others or
oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Running around, jumping, swinging
things, throwing things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">We<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had
a child in one of our schools<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that would
come to the class and climb the shelves and sit there. No amount of cajoling
would bring him down. If brought down the child would walk around hitting and
punching other children. Sometimes we would feel he is better off on the shelf!
But then other children want to sit on the shelf, so this had to be
sorted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked the teacher to start
shadowing the child by holding his hand and gently pulling him away when he
would try to reach for another child. Everyday as he would enter the class<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the teacher<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>would greet him and take him aside and high five him, and reaffirming about
2 important rules- “we don’t sit on the shelf and we don’t hurt others”. Then
she would follow him around by holding his hand. At the end of the day she
would tell him what he did well and where he can be better. The child was 3
years old. After 15 days of this, slowly she did not have to hold his hand, she
involved him in activities like helping pick up toys or take things from one
side of the class to the other. But she noticed that every time his father came
to drop him (which was once in 15 days) the child would be too aggressive on
those days. Then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we found the cause, the
father before dropping him would say, ‘don’t be naughty in school or I will not
take you out’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>realized that the father was giving negative
reinforcement and so we spoke to the father to change his words to , ‘ have fun
in school and I will pick you up after school, daddy loves you’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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settled now.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Here are
some pointers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to monitor and change
aggressive behavior<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">From when
did these start? </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">A new baby? A change in the family? A new
teacher? Too many milestones together? - like toilet training, eating on their
own, brushing their teeth, going to daycare. If too many emotionally draining
milestones were clubbed together then the child will naturally always feel
overwhelmed and thus may resort to aggressive behavior<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>often from stress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">How did you
handle the first aggression and how are you handling it now?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Most
parents handle the first few aggressions with ease, by either being kind to the
child or laughing it off, but as the frequency increases they tend to change
and it is this change that frustrates the child. So be consistent in your way
of handling every aggression<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
meltdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aggressive only with you or with everyone?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> This can be because of
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">You may not be giving her choices and so she
wants her way – power struggle. So give some choices, like for choosing clothes
to wear, the closet is off limits but put three dresses on the bed and have her
choose what to wear, this will help you ‘maintain control’ and also give the
child the required choice to feel independent and in control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is good for children but others may not be so strict with her so she perceives
you as the ‘only’ person who ‘makes’ her do things. So talk to the other family
members to maintain some consistency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">You may unknowingly not be paying her attention
when ‘she’ wants. So analyze and work on it. Remember for children even
negative attention is good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Check how
much time you spend with her, is it enough?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Kids need 20 minutes
of our undivided attention (at least 6 times a day!) but sometimes we end up
being on the phone or checking mails or cooking when we are supposed to be
giving them our undivided attention. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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communicate or instruct?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Check your conversations throughout the day
are they more instructions and questions? Then you need to give her more time
to talk and communicate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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child<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is just a ‘drama queen’ or
‘meltdown king’ then refrain from labeling them as such. Because when you call
them by these names you are opening them up to ridicule and confusing them,
which adds more fuel to their already fragile emotions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Walking away does not help as it teaches your
child that when someone is upset, walk away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">So during an aggressive<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tantrum or a meltdown just sit there quietly
till it wears out, or give your child a tight hug and keep hugging till she
quiets down. Say words like, ‘There, there, I understand’ or just a simple
‘hmmm.’ Ensure that your child is not going to hurt herself or others, if you
think she will then just hold her tightly from behind, close to your body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Reasoning with them during an aggressive
meltdown is foolish because during aggressive behavior the pre frontal cortex
or the thinking brain has shut down and the primitive brain has taken over
which has only 4 responses, fight, flight, flock or freeze. Talk to them and
reason with them afterwards or when you are having a happy moment with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">If your child has the aggressive<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meltdown at a public place then just ride it
out with a smile on your face for that irritating passerby who glares at you
just shrug your shoulder and say,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘ Bear
with it dear, remember this planet also has kids’. Don’t look embarrassed, as
that is the fuel to your toddlers’ public aggression. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Do not lose your temper,
aggression does not respond to anger. Do not lock the child, threaten, or tease
the child about the behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">If the child is being physical,
hold the child firmly so the child cannot hurt itself or others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">If the child is screaming and
shouting, stand there, ignore and look firmly at the child, till the child
stops, or else pick up the child from behind and take the child to another
room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Once the child has calmed down,
sit with the child, put your arm around the child, and ask the child what went
wrong? how can you help?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Make rules for the child, an
agreement between you, and the child about what is not acceptable and
compliment the child when it achieves it. Change will be slow but with
consistency and persistence it happens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember not to focus on the aggressive
behavior but to focus on the cause of the aggressive behavior. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Where the heart beats and
not the hand…#Iwillnot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Early Childhood Association
with First Moms Club and Born Smart recently conducted a survey on ‘spanking’
with 1790 mothers and the results were that 77% mothers spanked their children!
The study was published in Times of India and Hindustan Times on 15<sup>th</sup>
February. (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/77-of-moms-raised-hands-on-their-children-survey/articleshow/62922957.cms"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/77-of-moms-raised-hands-on-their-children-survey/articleshow/62922957.cms</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">) (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/survey-shows-77-parents-spank-children-at-home/story-zNNnm3jsFKshnpcCKPSOYO.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/survey-shows-77-parents-spank-children-at-home/story-zNNnm3jsFKshnpcCKPSOYO.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Our vision behind this
survey was to <i><u>support</u></i> rather
than <i><u>judge</u></i> parents. We know
that parenting can be both <i>exhausting</i>
and <i>exhilarating</i>. It is in the
exhausting times that a parent may lose control and resort to hitting,
spanking, or pinching their child. We are here to help you overcome <i>the
hand that hits</i> and help you make it <i>the
hand that hugs</i>. Parenting is where the ‘heart beats’ and not the ‘hand’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Its time to practice
‘mindful parenting’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The common reasons why
mothers said that they spanked their children are:</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">1.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Struggling
to bring up children alone, as the father rarely participates, so overwhelmed
all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">2.Inability
to control her anger, irritation, and frustration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">3.Trying
to juggle home and career and ensuring that the child is well looked after, or
giving up a career and finding it frustrating.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Some mothers even wrote to
us saying- <i>“ I hit my child but it’s for
the child’s best interests and its ok for mothers to once in a while hit their
child, afterall they love them so much”.</i>I don’t judge mothers who hit their
children but I definitely judge mothers who condone it, because there can be no
excuse to resorting to violence when it comes to children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Don’t men who hit their
wives use the same excuse?? <i><u>When did
love become violence and when did love give you the sick power to hurt,
humiliate and hit? If you really love your children then let your heart beat
for your child and not your hand!<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Look at what’s happening
around you today, young teenagers are killing, hurting others, violence has
become a norm, acceptable. Children learn by imitation and when you try to
control them with violence then they learn that violence is the solution for
everything in life. And when you try to condone that violence by saying that <i>‘I hit you because I love you’</i> then you
are bringing up <u>‘wife beaters’</u> and <u>‘acid throwers’</u>. Love never,
ever hurts or harms! In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, <i>“punishment hardens children”</i> and that is exactly what we are
seeing today, children who have hardened emotions who kill, hit and harm
because <i>empathy is dead. How did it die?
It was beaten out of the bodies of our children.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I am not going to be soft
or considerate in this blog, as it is time we as women realized that giving
excuses of frustration does not give us the right to physically harm our
children. A physical harm that scars our children for life. Come on
women..mothers…are you saying that you are so weak that you take out the frustrations
of life and husbands on your children? You are much stronger than that. You are the stronger species and that is why you
carry the child for 9 months and you are the nurturers and protectors. Don’t
give in to momentary weakness and end up hitting, pinching, and slapping your
children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Most mothers who come to me
for counseling admit that after hitting their children they feel guilty and
then go and hug their child, say sorry and give them gifts. This teaches
children that violence is a way of showing love. What kind of husbands and
wives will these kids grow up to be? They will be husbands who beat their wives
because they ‘love’ them and they will be wives that take that beating and pass
it on to their children, because they ‘love their husbands and children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Its
time to ensure that with our smart phones even our parenting styles are getting
smarter! Its time for ‘mindful parenting’</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">. Mindfulness is all about realizing
when your emotions are racing ahead of you, when your emotions are taking over
you, <i>listen to your beating heart and
control that hand that beats</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I am not going to enumerate
the negative impacts of spanking children because you don’t need a reason to
stop hitting your own child/ren, you need control, self control. <i>So tie a red ribbon on the hand that you use
to hit your child, this will be a constant reminder that you have to control
that hand and the red will remind you that instead of seeing a red mark of a
slap on your child it would be so much more loving to see the red mark of a
kiss on your child.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">If you are finding your
child stubborn, irritating, unreasonable then realize that your child was not
born that way. Remember that cherubic angel you held in your arms? When did
that angel become ‘Dennis the Menace’? Something
you did or did not do as parents led to this transformation in your child, well
then there is something that you can do as parents that can once again
transform your child, all you need is a mentor, seek one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Promise yourself that you
will not push your child on a ‘merry go round’ of violence, because remember,
children who are beaten..beat, it’s as simple as that. Just because you are a
mother does not give you the right to beat your child and that is why in most
countries it is illegal to hit or harm your child. <i>Its time that ‘Mother India’ also stops hitting their child and stop
making excuses like, ‘its just a small phatka’, ‘its for the child’s good’, ‘
it hit because I love my child’, etc.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Become the parent, the
mother whose heart beats for her children and not her hand. Go on your Facebook,
twitter, instagram and become an enlightened and empowered mother by posting
#Iwillnot <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Come become part of this
campaign to ensure that mothers are known for nurturing and not for harming and
that mothers are stronger and can control their hand when it comes to taking
care of the</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> heart of their lives…their children.
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Learning
for educators and parents from Padmavati film row and Miss World win. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Media
has been going berserk on the Padmavati film row, with arguments and shouting
matches by those who support the film and those who don’t! And in this frenzy
came the news about our girl from Haryana winning the Miss World crown and
bringing it back to India after 17 years by replying, ‘mother’, to the end of
the pageant question- ‘Which profession should be the highest paid and why?’
And her reply again has those that think it was an apt reply and those that
don’t. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Both
the news are splashed everywhere, so much so that it is difficult to ignore
them and kids, especially youngsters are definitely influenced by both the
news. This is where we as educators need to step in and help them analyze,
deliberate and decide otherwise they will end up taking sides without learning
the most essential skills of logical thinking so required in understanding
conflict. If we really want to change our education system then its time
to start discussing contemporary issues with students. Discussing not arguing
or judging!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Our
children and youth have a question regarding the Padmavati film row- ‘Who is
right?’ Many educators and mothers applauded the reply given by Ms. Chillar to
clinch the crown, and our students have a question, ‘She did not answer the
question, so will we also be applauded if we don’t answer questions in the
right context?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">The
Padmavati film row is the right opportunity to teach our children and youth the
following-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">1.</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">There is never a
complete right and wrong in such conflicts, the important part is resolving the
conflict to the benefit of both parties and without any harm to a third party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Discussions
are raging about proving each side wrong or each side right but we must realize
that in this situation like many such conflicts there is no innocent party or
the right and wrong party as both parties have broken rules and have erred. The
choice now is either to continue to argue that this party is less guilty or
more violent than the other or to ensure that both parties are brought face to
face to resolve the conflict. Youth need our help to understand how media also
has two sides, the ‘reporting’ and the ‘rehashing’, it is the rehashing that we
need to be careful about and train our children to understand that it happens
for TRP and once they understand the difference they will be able to make
logical choices instead of depending on the ‘brain washing’ of the rehashing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">2.</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Creative liberty or
liberty of speech is our right but we also have to respect the right of beliefs
and sentiments.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">We
are a proud democratic country and we have the right to speak our mind, our
thoughts and practice creativity. But with every right, comes a responsibility
and it is this combination that we need to make our children and youth aware
about. What they speak and how they speak can hurt someone’s beliefs and
sentiments, are they aware of the same? Or are they clueless about the same? Or
are they aware but choose to ignore the same? This requires intelligence,
sensitivity and empathy, all signs of a good leader. So help students to
analyze their decisions, thoughts, and speech on these guidelines before they
decide to speak, print or go public. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">3.</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Tackling upset people
by becoming more upset with them does not diffuse the situation. What helps is
knowledge of conflict resolution. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Our
children need to be given the understanding that Violence can never be condoned
and any kind of violence is deplorable. But violence cannot be defused by
sarcasm, mocking or shouting. Violence happens when the thinking brain has
stopped thinking and is now on flight or fight mode. The more you shout,
threaten or mock such a brain it will resort to more violence as it is on ‘shut
down mode’. The only way to calm violence is to bring in conflict resolution.
This needs to be practiced at the micro level by teachers in schools and
parents at home by not resorting to violence when tackling an angry child or
teenager or by shouting and mocking their behavior. This will only ignite and
incite them to do more bad behavior. If children see adults handling a volatile
situation in a clam manner and succeeding in diffusing the same then they will
grow up learning conflict resolution skills that will go a long way in ensuring
that they become law abiding citizens that contribute to a peaceful society and
world. Our children will face violence in the form of bullies and bullies
cannot be done away with more bullying! Conflict resolution is a 21<sup>st</sup>
century life skill that we need to ingrain and pass on to our youth.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">The
Miss World win is the perfect opportunity to help young impressionable minds
understand the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">1.</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Ms. Chillar is a young
budding medical student, so she is a perfect example of beauty and brains. In
today’s world it is important to understand the meaning of beauty is not just
in being born with great looks but making yourself beautiful with exercise, a good
food plan and grooming. All that is possible for everyone. And the earlier we
make them aware of the same is better. Healthy food should not be confused with
dieting and exercise should not become exercise binging! Grooming is all about
health and hygiene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">2.</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">So what is a good
figure? Will be a common topic of discussion in young boys and girls, well, its
time to help them understand that a good figure is one that makes you feel
comfortable and healthy. Going on life threatening diets or severe gym plans
is only a temporary and dangerous solution. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">3.</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Even in a beauty
pageant the clincher is always the question and answer round, so you may win
all the beauty and fashion rounds but it is your presence of mind, confidence and
smartness that ultimately gets you the crown or keeps it at arms length from
you. This helps children understand that nothing in life is dependent on just
good looks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">But
a teenager asked me the most important queries on the question Ms. Chillar was
asked and the reply she gave, the query, ‘Was her reply correct?’, to
which I said well she did not answer the question but replied to it in a
different context. Because after the entire question posed was, ‘Which
profession should be paid the highest salary and why?’ and the meaning of the
word profession is - a paid occupation, especially one that involves
prolonged training and a formal qualification. So yes her reply, ‘Mother’ is
not the apt reply to the question but she smartly gave it a different context
and thus won the heart of the jury. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">And
now the teenager asked me a second question- ‘So should not schools also allow
us to answer questions in a different context? Why do they insist on having a
right answer…only one answer?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">And
this is what I leave to all educators and parents to think about, especially
those that are applauding Ms. Chillar’s reply, why cant we give our students
the same freedom when it comes to replying to questions that can have more than
one context?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif";">Its
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children so that they are better equipped to face the world and its trails and
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standard boy kill<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>s a young boy… Schooling or parenting.
Who is to blame?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In the
gruesome murder of the young primary school boy in a Gurgaon school, the CBI
has now found that it was not the school conductor that killed the boy but an
11<sup>th</sup> Standard boy of the same school! Reason? He wanted to postpone
the exams and the parent- teacher meeting!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">When the child was murdered it was schools that
bore the brunt of anger, mistrust from parents. Now if this new truth is
out, whom do we blame? The parents? The school? Or both?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Lets
remember it takes a village to raise a child. Parenting and
education should be equally responsible for how our children turn out to be as
adolescents and future adults. But sadly today parents and schools are each at
opposing ends with mistrust between them. Both should ideally work together,
hand in hand to ensure the safety, security, and holistic development of each
and every child. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">What has led
to this huge rift between two of the most important pillars in a child’s life?
Somewhere parents are not taking their role as parents seriously and expect the
school to do parenting and education and somewhere the schools are not
educating parents about their role and are unable to support both children and
parents in understanding challenging behavior or lack of performance. Parent
teacher meetings have become a farce and a bane for children as both the
teachers and parents blame them and no one has any solution to support them. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Parents and
schools should be focused on inculcating essential socio-emotional life skills
like sympathy, empathy, honesty, conscience but are busy teaching and focusing
on academic performance….academic performance at any cost…</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">This is
where the root cause of the problem ailing our youngsters lies, they have no
moral compass, no sensitivity towards others. This murder is not the only case
that has happened in recent years, Two boys kill their grandmother for her cash
and jewelry, as they had to pay some betting debts. A young boy plots and
kidnaps his cousin, who is then killed for ransom money to fulfill gambling
debts. Both these are real life cases- recent cases that have shocked
everyone. There are hundreds of such cases where young adolescent boys
from so called ‘safe happy, well educated and well to do families’ are
committing such heinous crimes. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">My question,
didn’t the parents know their kids? Were they unable to see this coming? Were
they never aware of such deadly ideologies lurking in their kid’s
personalities? All these kids started as innocent young boys, so then when did
they cross over? Why did not their parents notice it in their talks,
discussions, or behavior? It went unnoticed and then it was too late. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Most Parents
and schools rarely talk to kids - they only lecture them! Most parents
and schools rarely discuss, instead only question them. Most parents and
schools try to change behaviors of kids only by threats, bargaining and
bartering. Such kids behave well in front of their parents, but are completely
opposite in their absence. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Moral
values, morality, ethics, and truth are qualities that are not nurtured in our
kids today. Parents focus more on excelling and succeeding, at any cost and buy
their kids ‘co-operation’ with materialistic bribes. Thereby, nudging their
kids towards a lifestyle and mindset that focuses on material gains at any
cost. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Motivation
is extrinsic, behavior is extrinsically controlled, and nothing is intrinsic
any more in our kids. They have lost their ‘moral compass’ usually called the
conscience because it was never awakened, they never saw it being used, talked
about, or practiced. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Parents must
learn from Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket. Pinocchio had a quirk, every time he
would tell a lie - his nose would grow longer. Learning from Pinocchio, parents
must observe their kids from childhood – only then they would know exactly when
their child is lying, hiding things from them, or just being secretive or
evasive. Some kids fidget, some don’t look you in the eyes, some start
clutching their hands and some lose appetite when they are breaking a rule.
It’s easy to spot if you know your child and this is important for parents
because just teaching about rules is not the goal. Ensuring that your child
wants to follow the rules and equipping your child with ‘something’ that would
make your child aware when he is breaking the rules. This ‘something’ for Pinocchio
was Jiminy Cricket, his conscience. So, similarly till your child develops his
conscience you will have to be his Jiminy Cricket and guide your child. Be an
alert parent, be there as a guide and mentor not a police officer. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Being your child’s
Jiminy Cricket, teach your child how to think through problems and how to
select the right from the wrong even when the wrong looks right at that moment.
Teach your child decision making under stress. Teach your child how to
counteract temptation, bullies and more. Be open to your child
asking questions. To know what your child thinks, play ‘what if’ games with
your child and you will know whether your child is a pessimist, an optimist, or
a dreamer, who will get carried away. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In the above
cited crimes had the boys thought through their actions, they would have
realized that committing the crime was not the easy way out. Instead confessing
to their parents would have been the better path to take. In their wrong
decision and choice they have now landed in jail. So when you read about such
crimes, talk to your kids and discuss with them, ‘where do they think the boys
were wrong’, ‘what would you have done differently if you were in their place’.
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">It’s time to
give kids a healthy upbringing, it’s time to discuss with our teenagers
why the murder happened, and it’s time to understand from teenagers why they
think the murder happened. This may help us understand the mental health of our
kids and help us shape them better. It’s time to give good role models to kids.
It’s time to understand the temperaments of our kids and help shape and guide
them accordingly. There is a lot that parents and teachers can learn from the
work of Rudolf Steiner (German Philosopher and Educationist and founder of Waldorf
schools) and if one refers to what Rudolf Steiner says, we can understand that
shaping our kids mental health is in our hands, we can choose to nudge them to
success or push them over the brink to destruction, both self and that of
others.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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says that children have different temperaments and teachers and parents should
know these otherwise there are chances that we as adults would drive them to
extreme behavior as a result of mismanagement of their temperaments. The
four temperaments are-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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1. <u>Melancholic</u>:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Is a temperament whose attention and interest is not easily
aroused, though once attention is aroused they are strongly persevering.</span><span style="font-family: ""symbol"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Melancholic children require sympathy, empathy, and respect
from adults.</span><span style="font-family: ""symbol"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">When melancholic children are not nurtured as per their temperament
needs then chances are that these kids will display extreme depression and
the very extreme forms of behavior noticed in this temperament is
delusions and melancholia.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">When phlegmatic children are not nurtured as
per their temperament needs then chances are that these kids will display
extreme disinterest and the very extreme forms of behavior noticed in this
temperament are imbecility and idiocy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="font-family: ""symbol"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">
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and interest is most easily aroused, and these kids are most strongly
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their temperament needs then chances are that these kids will display
uncontrollable temper and the very extreme forms of behavior noticed
in this temperament are fanaticism and mania.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></li>
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interest is easily aroused, though they are not able to sustain it
as they have little strength of perseverance.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">To handle them we need to discover their
interests and then occupy them with it/through i. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">When sanguine children are not nurtured
as per their temperament needs then chances are that these kids will
display character instability and the very extreme forms of behavior
noticed in this temperament are lunacy and insanity.</span><span style="font-family: ""symbol"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></li>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The above is
just one example of understanding that temperaments in children can be
different and will require different handling. We need to change the face of
parenting and teaching in this country, we need to educate the adults about
life skills and how to inculcate them in children and to do that we need to
understand children, their minds, their moods and their mindsets. And if
required to seek professional help from mental health experts immediately. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">To stop a
repeat of such incidents from happening we need to teach kids to empathize,
think, and learn to use logic with emotions and to do all that we need to first
learn about empathy, sympathy, love and logic. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Every child
has beauty and a beast in its personality. It is up to us as parents whether to
use the beast in us and try to get the beauty in them and fail or
alternatively, use the beauty of our parenting techniques and tame the beast in
our kid’s personality and bring out the beauty. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ""sans-serif"","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Dr.Swati
Popat Vats </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"></span></div>
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Dr. Swati Popat Vatshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13238068978053483659noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732762894645366169.post-61552191741752053482017-09-26T01:55:00.004-07:002017-09-26T01:55:54.811-07:00The wind beneath my wings…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The wind
beneath my wings…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">January is the
month of Sankranti and Republic Day and both the celebrations have ‘wind’ in
it. Kites need ‘wind’ to fly and flags wave patriotically in the ‘wind’. So
this issue is dedicated to ‘wind’ and children. After all children too need the
‘wind’ beneath their wings to soar and achieve, excel and be happy in life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the
first thing that comes to your mind when you read the word-’wind’? The movie<span id="goog_1193937201"></span><span id="goog_1193937202"></span>
‘Gone with the ‘wind’?! Or the thought of freedom, exhilaration, independence?
Because that is what ‘wind’ is all about. When its ‘windy’ instead of closing
all the doors and windows, go out and catch the ‘wind’. Catch the wind on your
cheeks and see how they turn rosy. Let the ‘wind’ toss your hair and see how
fresh you feel. ‘Wind’ is an experience to have and to give to your child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We want our
kids to soar to success, to the heights of achievement, but we fail to realise
that we are the ‘wind’ beneath our child’s wings. The way we correct them, the
way we motivate them, encourage them, is the ‘wind’ beneath their wings. Is
‘wind’ important for shaping your child’s life? Yes, it is. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Vayu or air
or ‘wind’ is one of the five natural elements of nature and it is said that the
human body is made up of these elements. What can this element cultivate in the
personality of your child?</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">®<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Air/’wind’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is everywhere</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">®<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Everyone needs air</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">®<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No one can see air/’wind’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">®<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Air/’wind’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can soothe and cool you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or air/’wind’ can become a storm and destroy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">®<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Similarly independence in children is
like air/’wind’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">®<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Independence<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can give them the ability to explore, gives
them a zeal to venture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">®<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But too much independence can become a
storm that destroys everything in its path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So do
cultivate independence in your child but monitor that independence too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">January is
quite a windy month, try and do these with your child-</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Give
your child a kite and let your child run around with the kite on a string,
it’s a novel experience. And letting your child squeal as he/she runs,
just adds to the fun!</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Make
a paper windmill and put it out on your window. Let your child observe
what make it move. Then bring it inside and put it under a fast running
ceiling fan. Let him observe the difference. ‘Wind’ has motion and ‘wind’
makes things move!</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ensure
that your child has seen a real windmill, ‘wind’ energy is gaining
popularity and it is amazing to see the big, huge, white windmills dotting
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Let your child feel the ‘wind’ with
activities like football at the beach or kite flying, the different and
varied experiences will definitely benefit.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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your child to draw ‘wind’! You will be amazed with the creative ideas they
can think of.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Let’s
try and catch some ‘wind’!</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Let’s
record ‘wind’. Go to an open space and when it is ‘windy, record the sound
on your mobile phone. Come home and let your child focus and listen to the
sound. And then ask your child to imitate it.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">See
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your child imitate ‘wind’! Keep a paper in front of your child’s face and
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year full of fun, independence, exhilaration. Enjoy the ‘wind’ and see your
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Parents, here is a cute letter from your kids...</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dear mummy and
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘Every Dot Counts’- </span></u></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
‘Dot’ has been an important part of my life every since I was born. Remember
the little black ‘dot’ that you would apply on my forehead so that ‘no evil
eye’ can harm me? As I grow older a lot of dots will be important and make a
difference. You will tell me to ‘Dot’ my ‘i’. When I start writing sentences
you will tell me to put a ‘Dot’ (full stop) at the end of the sentence. ‘Dot to
dot’ activities of join the dots will teach me how to see the whole picture by
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But there is another
‘Dot’ dear mummy and daddy that is very important for my future, the ‘Dot’ on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>your</u></b> pointer finger! And this
‘Dot’, only you can get for me………by going to vote. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This ‘Dot’ will teach me
about responsibility, when I see my parents taking their responsibility
seriously I will learn a life long lesson on responsibility. This ‘Dot’ will
also inculcate in me the ability to take informed decisions. I will see you
discuss and debate and decide and it will teach me that for important decisions
in life it is better to be informed. And did you know that this ‘Dot’ of yours
is also very much like that ‘dot to dot’ activity that you give me? well, just
like by joining all the dots I get to see a picture in my book, similarly by
joining all the ‘Dots’ that each one of you gets on your pointer finger, the
future of this country will be decided, the country where I am going to grow
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So mummy and daddy teach
me all of the above and more, teach me that if you want to point a finger then
it should be the one with a ‘Dot’! So please go and get a ‘Dot’ this year on
your pointer finger as <u>Every Dot Counts’</u>. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I love you, I love you.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From your loving child</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So parents listen to your kids and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All parents are interested in the progress and development
of their children and to do it correctly they need pointers to guide them to
the right path. Parenting can be pleasurable if it is simple and research
based. Just like food is nourishment for the body, parenting is nourishment for
the mind, body, and soul. Just like we eat different types of food- Guajarati,
Chinese, Italian, Punjabi etc., similarly parenting too can be of different
flavors. So how about Italian? Let us Italian your parenting!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two of the most globally famous early childhood educational
practices were born in Italy- Montessori and Reggio Emilia. In Reggio Emilia
there is a wonderful poem called ‘The Hundred Languages of Children’. This poem
talks about how all children have a hundred languages, but we the people,
parents, schools, and society, steal the ninety nine and tell the child that
there is only one language. We want all kids to learn, behave, speak, feel, and
perform in the same manner. We have lost touch with the concept of
individualism. In parenting too we try to ensure that all our kids are the
same. They should walk at the same age, look the same, and perform similarly in
tests. Let us give them the hundred languages and let them grow as individuals
and not clones.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Italy is known as the land of pizza but it should be called
the land of the Piazza. Every city is dotted with Piazzas, these are kind of
squares in different parts of the city where people sit, chat, drink coffee,
tea, or lick ice-cream cones and kids can play, elders can walk and youngsters
can cycle. We need these spaces in our cities and homes, little piazzas
so that children learn about social development and community spirit
face-to-face and not only on Facebook.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are so obsessed with ‘branded stuff’ and the English
language. In fact now many children are made to learn Chinese, Japanese, before
they learn their mother tongue. But in Italy and in most European countries,
children learn their mother tongue for the first few years. Italian children
are proud and confident in their Italian. In India our kids are burdened to
learn a foreign language before they even speak their mother tongue. Let us
also help our children be proud of their roots before we give them wings. Every
street in Italy has Louis Vuitton stores, one of the most expensive and
fashionable brands in the world. In India Louis Vuitton has become a ‘class’
symbol whereas in Italy it was a mere fashion statement. Isn’t that how all
fashion should be?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Children in Italian schools are given many opportunities to
draw, paint, create, and that is indeed natural. After all this is the land of
Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and many others. This is seen in the
architecture and paintings around Italy. You are automatically forced to use
words like gigantic, mammoth, awe inspiring, intricate, mind boggling,
impressive, as words less than these would fail to describe the architectural
genius that you see in the buildings. The presence of fountains in each city
helps you understand how architecture was used to create spaces where people
can mingle, sit and hear sounds that are soothing and close to nature. I wish
today’s architects around the world would get over their obsession with steel
and glass. No wonder our children’s vocabulary is limited to tall, shining, and
awesome (sic). </span></div>
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Robotics is commonly used in most Italian schools to teach Math, Science and
concepts but this has not replaced art education in the schools. Leonardo Da
Vinci was a painter and inventor similarly education that we choose for our
children should be about the expressive arts and intelligence fused together.
It should not be either/or but the best of both that should inspire our
children.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pinocchio, one of the most path breaking stories for young
children was also born in Italy. At a basic level, moral learnings are abundant
in this wonderful story that every child should be exposed to. If you will tell
a lie, your nose will grow longer! What a wonderful way to teach children about
moral values and ethics. The Disney version has a song, ‘Let your conscience be
your guide’. That should be the anthem of every child. Enjoy Pinocchio with
your child today…both the book and the Disney version.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We cringe when we are with our children and see a naked
picture of the human body but we swing along with them on vulgar lyrics that
ogle and comment on women and sex. We need to give our children a balance.
Ancient Italian architecture and paintings help children grow up with a
positive concept of the human body. The statue of David is indeed a reminder
that children should grow up viewing and revering the naked human body rather
than learning about it as vulgar and porn. We have similar sculptures and
paintings in India like the Sun Temple at Konark or certain select paintings of
Raja Ravi Varma (India)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> that help us give our children a
positive and moral outlook towards our bodies, how babies are born etc.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And here are some great parenting
tips from an amazing Professor from Italy, Daniela Lucangeli Padua University.
She says children have selective attention. They know what to focus on
and when to switch off. Parents are always worried about the fact that their
children do not listen to them. Well find out what gets your child’s selective
attention, and then use it to ensure that your children listen too and hear
you. She spoke about the amygdala in the brain and emotions that accompany
learning. So aptly put by her that the emotion that should accompany learning
should be curiosity and not fear. So we need to stop threatening children to
make them perform or complete their tasks or homework as it is directly
affecting their brain development. She quoted Eric Fisher on how rage and fear
does not damage learning and creativity as much as boredom does. When we drone
on and on with our children, they get bored. When we hold their hands and make
them do their homework, they get bored. When we feed them with our hands
instead of letting them feed themselves, they get bored. When we make them wear
their clothes, tie their shoes, do their beds…they get bored. Their boredom all
day long affects their learning and creativity. So if you want your kids to
perform better at school, stop boring them!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They say beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. I
would like to add that parenting inspirations are in every city and country, if
we only look at them from the point of view of children and their hundred
languages.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Swati Popat Vats is an
early childhood educator and parenting mentor. She heads a chain of early
childhood centers in India and Dubai. She speaks extensively at international
conferences and mentors parents on making parenting pleasurable. She has
authored more than 12 books for parents, teachers, and children. She blogs and
tweets passionately about quality in parenting and early childhood spaces. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Parenting license…a license to nurture a
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">A video of a newborn baby walking went viral
on social media.. (infancy)</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">News of a young teenager killing his mother
and feeling no remorse, shook the city…(adolescence)</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">And yet another news went unnoticed, that of
4 young children running away from home because…. their parents did not allow
them to play! (Young child)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">What is
common in all of the above? It’s the knowledge of the science of parenting. Mothers,
still carry the entire parenting role on their shoulders, and today’s mother is
quite fed up with people advising her or telling her she is wrong or has made a
mistake. Understandable. Previously it would be only the mother in law or
mother who would advice a mother about parenting but today it is the nosy
neighbor, Google aunty, whatsapp friends, Facebook friends and of course still
the mother and mother in law! But instead of shutting out everyone and
listening to no one I would advice today’s yummy mummy to go for smart
parenting and understand the science of parenting so that they can listen to
reason and not rumours, myths and plain ridiculous ideas!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">So lets
understand the science behind each of the above news. Newborn baby walking?
Possible. All babies can! It is called the step reflex. Present in every baby
but we don’t notice it because which idiot would want to make a newborn stand?!
Why did the video go viral? Because the science of parenting is not used by 98%
parents and so most mothers after seeing the video went….’is something wrong
with my baby? What did that mother eat during pregnancy?’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">These are
some reflexes present in all new borns-</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Startle, or
Moro, reflex</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">. When startled by a sudden or loud noise, or a feeling
of falling, the Moro reflex will cause the baby to extend the legs, arms, and
fingers, arch the back, draw the head back, then draw the arms back, fists
clenched, into the chest. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Duration:</i>
Four to six months.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Babinski's,
or plantar, reflex.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> When the sole of a baby's foot is gently
stroked from the heel to toe, the baby's toes flare upward and the foot turns
in. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Duration:</i> Between six months and
two years, after which toes curl downward.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Rooting
reflex.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">
A newborn whose cheek is gently stroked will turn in the direction of the
stimulus, mouth open and ready to suckle. This reflex helps the baby locate the
breast or bottle and secure a meal.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
Duration:</i> About three to four months, though it may persist when baby is
sleeping.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Walking, or
stepping, reflex.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Held upright on a table or other flat surface, supported
under the arms, a newborn may lift one leg and then the other, taking what seem
to be "steps." This "practice walking" reflex works best
after the fourth day of life. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Duration: </i>Variable,
but typically about two months. (This reflex does not forecast early walking.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Sucking
reflex</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">.
A newborn will reflexively suck when the roof of his or her mouth is touched,
such as when a nipple is placed in the mouth. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Duration:</i> Present at birth and lasts until two to four months, when
voluntary sucking takes over.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Palmar
grasping reflex.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Touch the palm of your baby's hand, and his or her 'fingers
will curl around and cling to your finger (or any object). This reflex curls
babies' feet and toes, too, when they're touched. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Duration:</i> Three to six months.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Tonic neck,
or fencing, reflex.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Placed on the back, a young baby will assume
a "fencing position," head to one side, with arms and legs on that
side extended and the opposite limbs flexed. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Duration:</i> Varies a lot. It may be present at birth or may not
appear for at least two months, and disappear at about four to six months—or
sooner, or later.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">You can
watch a video about these reflexes or read more about it on </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.born-smart.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">www.born-smart.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">A young
teenager brutally kills his own mother and writes a message that implied that
he was fed up of her nagging and the message also said ‘catch me and hang me’.
The child’s father is in the police force. What went wrong? The young boy
scored more than 90% in his 10<sup>th</sup> standard but then his grades
starting going down. He was put in an engineering college but did not attend.
Mother was a recluse and was never seen by neighbours. She would keep an eye
and spy on the phones of both the son and father. Father would grumble to
everyone about how he has tried everything and works hard for the son but to no
avail. The boy even tried to commit suicide but the mother caught him and
reprimanded him for the same. What is the science of parenting here?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">The mother
was most likely a depression patient, which went unidentified and thus the need
to be alone, doubting the husband and child. The young boy was affected by the
home atmosphere too and was also most likely depressed and that is why the need
to commit suicide. Instead of seeking therapy for the son, he was reprimanded
which means when attachment, understanding and bonding was most required by the
teenager he was shunned and reprimanded. It emotionally hardened the child. The
burden of achievement, fulfilling parent’s aspirations, being ridiculed, all
this resulted in a knee jerk angry reaction of stabbing and killing his mother.
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">It is
important for parents to understand that children don’t drift away when they
become teenagers, they start drifting from age 7 onwards and parents don’t
notice as they are busy with academic goals and ensuring that the child
achieves social recognition in sports, extra activities, marks, grades etc. it
is important for parents to keep their attachment with their child and work
towards keeping it strong. Attachment is not helicopter parenting. Taking a
leaf from the work of John Bowlby, the father of the attachment theory, I would
say attachment helps the parent child bond in 3 ways- proximity maintenance,
gives a safe haven, a secure base. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Proximity maintenance – you are always
emotionally close to your child, you may not be physically present around your child,
but your emotional bond is so strong that it helps your child feel emotionally
wanted and cared for and not feel emotionally bereft. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Safe haven- when a child is in trouble or
emotionally upset the child knows that I can depend on my parents for support,
this is a safe haven. The child knows that my parents are firm but in times of
need they will first support and reprimand later.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Secure base- this means, roots and wings, you
allow the child to be independent, take decisions because of the strong secure
base that you have given the child which was constant and consistent from
childhood. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Instead of always
shouting or lecturing him try ‘teen whispering’, which means having a quiet,
discussion in which both the parent and the teen puts forward their point of
view and way ahead. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-font-width: 109%;"></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">“When flying between the Earth and the Moon,
the Apollo spacecraft was off course more than 90 percent of the time. On their
lunar voyages the crew would constantly bring the craft back to its intended
trajectory. They were not on a perfect path but a critical path. Because they
knew their intended target they could correct their spacecraft whenever it
wandered off- Anon”</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Teenagers are on a
voyage to adulthood, they will veer off course like the Apollo but we need to
know that as long as they come back to the intended trajectory which in their
case is a healthy, happy life, we can be there to correct their spacecraft as and
when required. No teenager will be perfect what is critical is that they are
given a perfect chance. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">The last
bit of news was about 4 young children, aged 6,7, and 8 who ran away from home
because their parents did not allow them to play! So what is the science of
parenting here? Well, Play is the need of childhood, it is the work of childhood,
and it helps kids develop logic, knowledge, patience, and so many other life
skills. But because we don’t see marks of grades for play or a report card that
says the child is playing 98% etc. we don’t give play the importance it
deserves. Maybe it is time schools start giving a report card for play so that
parents and teachers realize that play is the research that children do in the
laboratory of life and toys are their apparatus. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Rudolf
Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy and the Waldorf system of education
stressed that our life is divided into three stages namely, Infancy,Childhood
and Adolescence. He advised parents and teachers that it is important to base our
interactions with children of each stage as per the requirements of each stage
of growth. So change your parenting style as per your child’s age but never
change the attachment bond that you have with your child, keep it strong
forever. </span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Its time parents
understand parenting and the science behind it before they decide to become
parents. Because parenting is not just about pregnancy and childbirth,
parenting is a responsibility for life. And I strongly feel that there should
be a parenting course…a license to become a parent. You are bringing up a life
and if you make a mistake you can ruin that life forever. Its time we took
parenting seriously and I urge all parents to seek out parenting mentors,
guides who can guide them on the right path. Seeking help from each other is
not enough because each child is unique and has a unique set of genes that
define his/her personality and so using someone’s else’s solution may be
detrimental to your child. </span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Parenting is like a city, observe one
and you can get immense tips about your parenting style and how to enhance it. Sounds
crazy? Well, here is how to go about it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I recently visited Chandigarh, the
first planned city of Independent India. It has been designed by a French
gentleman, so your question, ‘why not an Indian’? The answer is because it is
the first planned city andofcourse no one in India would have had the
experience of planning a city! What does this teach you about parenting? Well,
when it comes to important issues, decisions, choices in your parenting, go to
the experts and do not rely on friends, relatives, or books and websites. Take
an experts opinion who can weigh the situation with knowledge about your child
and family. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The city has very wide roads with
roundabouts at every intersection. This helps the traffic be organized and
controlled. How is this related to parenting? Well, kids have an information
highway in the brain, in their education years it’s all about learning,
knowledge and memory and to do this effectively the brain requires strong
neural connections, almost like strong roads. So how does one ensure that the
neural connections of the brain are strong enough for knowledge and learning to
flow in an organized manner? Simply allow children to question. Questioning
broadens their thinking and helps them analyze, relate and use logic. Try not
to trivialize your replies by giving flippant answers to their queries. ‘It
rains because god is doing susu’, or ‘it thunders when the gods are fighting’,
these kind of replies do not help their brain think or relate knowledge. You
need strong neural connections that are built by helping kids think about their
choices. Help them connect cause and effect. ‘If you sit there, you may fall,
if you fall you will get hurt and it will pain, but if you sit here then you will
be safe’, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like it makes sense
for a city to plan for wide roads keeping in mind that traffic will grow in the
years to come, similarly it makes sense to help kids reach their ZPD (zone of
proximal development) which means stimulate their brains with facts, knowledge
and play that is slightly above their thinking level, just slightly, not too
easy and not too difficult. This will keep their neural pathways strong and
their attention focused and interested.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The wide roads in Chandigarh are lined
on both sides and in the middle with a strong green cover. Maybe to keep the
city oxygenated and the pollution levels in control. Similarly your child
requires some ‘green cover’, which means oxygen. Kids get oxygen from two
sources, water and plants. So ensure that your kids are hydrated and ensure
that you have some plants in the home and around your home. Give your child’s
brain some ‘free time’ so that the brain is not always involved in learning and
gathering knowledge. Play games, board games are the best as they help the
family bond and the brain exercise without the burden of achievement. So keep
the games light and friendly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Chandigarh city is divided into
sectors, easy for administration, for locating an address etc. divide your
child’s day and life into different sectors so that the emphasis is not always
on one part only and the child gets all round development. Education is
important but then so is nutrition, exercise, health and hygiene. Understand
which ‘sectors’ you want to divide your child’s growth into and then ensure
that you are giving equal attention to all the ‘sectors’, each day, each week
and every month.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The city has a collection of gardens,
open spaces and even an artificial lake. You will see people walking through
this green cover and the elderly are seen walking and exercising in these
parks. Overall the city is quite clean and does not have the problem of rotting
garbage or sewage problems. In your parenting ensure that your child gets
enough exercise, sometimes when we are staying in congested cities it becomes
difficult to give kids the required exercise, so then look for simple ways,
walk up the stairs instead of taking the elevator with your child. don’t use
the remote for changing channels, do it manually with your child. and clean
your child’s system often. Deworm your child and also ‘deworm’ his behavior.
Find out positive ways of disciplining rather than threatening, hitting,
shouting etc. remember your kids needs to be happy and healthy in mind, body
and spirit. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Most importantly Chandigarh is the
capital of two states, Punjab and Haryana, so one can imagine what it means to
share the same assembly building the secretariat etc. this teaches us that a
child and his overall responsibility is shared by both the parentsequally and
without conflict. Learn to coexist and correlate your parenting, for this you
will have to discuss debate and agree to disagree for some issues but never in
front of the child. Also ensure that your child does not become ‘a tug-o-war’
between you, especially if you are involved in a separation or divorce. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The rock garden is one of the most famous
landmarks of Chandigarh. I was disappointed when I visited it as it was dirty,
had a lot of litter, stale and stagnant water pools infested with flies and no
one to show directions or even a signage of where to go or how to move around.
So how did the rock garden reach this state? Well, tourists that don’t care and
not enough maintenance. Now let’s relate this to parenting. There will be many
‘tourists’ in your child’s life, friends, neighbors, bullies who will ‘litter’
your child’s life with bad habits, bad words, bad deeds, well, if you keep up
your ‘maintenance parenting’ then you will be able to clean up every time there
is litter. Don’t allow the ‘litter’ to become stale or stagnant. Therefore,
talk to kids often, relate to them, help them use logic in their decision
making and help them choose right from wrong. Develop a conscience in your
child. and this can be done only by giving your child a good, strong role
model…YOU. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And the last thing to learn from
Chandigarh city, from the ‘safeda’ trees (really don’t know the botanical
name). these trees regularlyshed their brown bark and become completely white
and thus called ‘safeda’. Its relation to parenting? Well, change your
parenting style as your kids grow older, young toddlers need understanding, and
good role models as they learn through imitation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>young kids need rules and repercussions
clearly defined and young adolescents are most impressed with money and open
channels of communication. So ensure that the ‘money’ comes from pocket money
and try not to spy on them as they will only ‘close up’ and hide things from
you. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Simple city facts related to simple
aspects of parenting. Well, parenting is never easy but then it is not
difficult too if one understands, relates and enjoys the journey. Happy
parenting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">One of the ‘first day of school’ gifts
that every parent gives their child is a PENCIL BOX. A child’s true friend in
school!. It has pencils, a sharpener, a ruler, an eraser, and as the child
grows older some geometry implements too. We never take this pencil box
seriously, we buy the best brand, best colour and that’s it, we don’t think
about all that the contents of the box can teach kids for life. This blog is
dedicated to the pencil box of every child. Enjoy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Every parent buys a pencil box for
their child for school and unknowingly gifts many ‘values’ of life to their
child. It’s like a treasure box, a box that has everything that will help them
with everyday school life, learning and living. Point out to your child the
hidden treasure in every item of the pencil box and then observe how lovingly
your child handles each item, with renewed respect and love. </span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The
pencil teaches your child that-</span></u></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> You can make your mark in life</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> That you decide whether the mark
will be light or dark</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> A pencil mark can be erased so it
teaches kids that mistakes can be erased, so there is nothing to worry
about.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> A pencil has to be sharpened to
perform well. It must be painful to the pencil to face that blade in the
sharpner,but when it emerges it looks elegant, with a new point. This
teaches kids that they will face criticisms, corrections and maybe even
punishments but they should not be disappointed as they will emerge
stronger and sharper to face the new challenges with renewed vigour and
intelligence.</span></li>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The
eraser teaches kids-</span></u></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> To be ready to rub away mistakes
so that they do not stay with you forever.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> Eraser teaches that whatever your
form or shape or size you should be good at what you do. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> If you are not careful then you
will also erase important things, so be careful.</span></li>
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<br /><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The
sharpener teaches kids –</span></u></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> That sometimes sharp things also
bring about needed change</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> The sharpener keeps everything
important upto date and that’s how children should be with important
things in their room or cupboard.</span></li>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The
ruler teaches kids-</span></u></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> That whichever way you hold a
ruler you will always get a straight line. So whatever task we do it
should be done correctly and truthfully.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> The ruler can measure accurately
and so teaches kids to be accurate in their work</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> A ruler can draw lines, measure,
so is a multitasker and teaches kids that multitasking is an important
life skill.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Together the items of a pencil box
teach kids that each one has a value and a role to play in life and together
they can all be successful. So even though each item in a pencil box plays a
different role, together they contribute to a child’s success in school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The pencil box is indeed the child’s
‘school treasure box’ so gift it to your child lovingly and with a lot of
fanfare so that kids understand its importance and learn to respect and use
each item for their success. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Parable of the Pencil -
Author Unknown</span></u></i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside,
just before putting him into the box. ‘There are five things you need to know,’
he told the pencil,<br />
‘before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget,
and you will become the best pencil you can be.’<br />
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‘<u>One</u>: You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow<br />
yourself to be held in Someone’s hand.<br />
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‘<u>Two</u>: You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but<br />
you’ll need it to become a better pencil.<br />
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‘<u>Three</u>: You will be able to correct any mistakes you might make.<br />
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‘<u>Four</u>: The most important part of you will always be what’s inside.<br />
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‘And, <u>Five</u>: On every surface you are used on, you will leave your<br />
mark. No matter what the condition, you must continue to write.’<br />
<br />
The pencil understood and promised to remember and went into the box with
purpose in its heart.<br />
<br />
</i><u>I think we sometimes forget our purpose. We stumble through the day, doing
what has to be done without thought to what needs to be done. Henry Kissinger
is credited with saying “the urgent takes all the time from the important.” We
need to get back to the important. Like a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>pencil, we leave our mark on each life we touch, especially our kids .</u></span></div>
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not a Parrot’s Training!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As we move into yet another academic
year, its time to take a pledge as educators that we will ensure that education
is a pleasure and not a pain for the children in our schools and colleges. This
story written, The Parrot’s Training,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by
Rabindranath Tagore, a satire on the education system is sadly relevant even
today. Let us together ensure that it is no more relevant in
our education system. </span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">THE PARROT’S TRAINING</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Once upon a time there was a
bird. It was ignorant. It sang all right, but never recited
scriptures. It hopped pretty frequently, but lacked manners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Said the Raja to himself.
“Ignorance in costly in the long run. For fools consume as much food as
their betters, and yet give nothing in return.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He called his nephews to his presence
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The pundits were summoned, and at once
went to the root of the matter. They decided that the ignorance of birds
was due to their natural habit of living in poor nests. Therefore,
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was a suitable cage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The pundits had their rewards and went
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A golden cage was built with gorgeous
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Culture, captured and caged!”
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Others remarked: “Even if culture be
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fortunate for the bird!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The goldsmith filled his bag with
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The pundit sat down to educate the
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Men murmured in amazement: “Oh, the
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Whatever may be its other
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When this remark reached the Raja’s
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The nephews said in answer: “Sir, let
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The explanation was so luminously
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Raja at length, being desirous of
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">From the gate rose the sounds of
conch-shells and gongs, horns, bugles and trumpets, cymbals, drums and
kettledrums, tomtoms, tambourines, flutes, fifes, barrel-organs and
bagpipes. The pundits began chanting mantras with their topmost voices,
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The nephews smiled and said: “Sir,
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> The Raja said: “It does seem so
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Education!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mightily pleased, the Raja was about
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out: “Maharaja, have you seen the bird?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Indeed, I have not!” Exclaimed
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Turning back, he asked the pundits
about the method they followed in instructing the bird. It was shown to
him. He was immensely impressed. The method was so stupendous that
the bird looked ridiculously unimportant in comparison. The Raja was
satisfied that there was no flaw in the arrangements. As for any
complaint from the bird itself, that simply could not be expected. Its
throat was so completely chocked with the leaves from the books that it could
neither whistle nor whisper. It sent a thrill through one’s body to watch
the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The time, while remounting his
elephant, the Raja ordered his State Ear-puller to give a thorough good pull at
both the ears of the fault-finder. The bird thus crawled on, duly
and properly, to the safest verge of inanity. In fact, its progress was
satisfactory in the extreme. Nevertheless, nature occasionally triumphed
over training, and when the morning light peeped into the bird’s cage it
sometimes fluttered its wings in a reprehensible manner. And, though it
is hard to believe, it pitifully pecked at its bars with the feeble beak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What impertinence!” Growled the kotwal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The blacksmith, with his forge and
hammer tool his place in the Raja’s Department of Education. Oh, what
resounding blows! The iron chair was soon completed, and the bird’s wings
were clipped.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Raja’s brothers-in-law looked
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Nobody had the least notion how long
ago this had happened. The fault-finder was the first man to spread the
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Raja called his nephews and asked
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The nephews said:
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Does it hop?” The Raja
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Does it fly?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“No.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Bring me the bird,” said the Raja.</span></div>
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by the kotwal and the sepoys and the sowars. The Raja poked its body with
his finger. Only its inner stuffing of book-leaves rustled.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">
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spring breeze amongst the newly budded Asoka leaves made the April, morning
wistful.</span></div>
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Dr. Swati Popat Vatshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13238068978053483659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732762894645366169.post-42689825882932837142017-09-18T03:56:00.002-07:002017-09-18T03:56:57.807-07:00 Fail-land or Finland lets ‘unbox’ education.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Finland method in
India, a dream or achievable? Its time to ‘unbox’ education.</span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">“One of
the most distressing characteristics of education reformers is that they are
hyper-focused on how students perform, but they ignore how students learn.” </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">~Diane Marie</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Indian
education is abuzz with discussions and speculations when the PISA test scores
are released every year. Educators and even Education Ministers and their teams
make a beeline to Finland to understand how their children score so well on the
PISA test. Well, this year its time to cancel the ticket to Finland and book
one to Singapore because it’s the students from Singapore that have scored well
on the PISA tests in 2016! Jokes aside, one of the crucial aspects missing in
all the discussions on how to address the abysmal performance of Indian
students in international tests like PISA, is the focus on ‘schoolification’ of
our kindergartens and the lack of transition between pre primary and primary
curriculum. Our own ASAR report by Pratham shows poor performance by our
students in primary education, but the most important link that is ignored by
all is the lack of quality early childhood education in our country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many countries including Australia have
studied their student performance in PISA and their analysis of the PISA
results shows that those 15 year olds who had one or two years of early
childhood education did better in their scores for Reading, Math and Science
than children who had less than one year, or no attendance at early learning. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We
have had enough time to ‘think out of the box’, its time now to throw away the
‘box’..’unbox education! The first thing that we need to focus on is to bring
back the engine of early learning- Play. Almon and Miller used this analogy of describing
play as the ‘engine of learning’, “as an engine is a machine that creates the force
and is self-propelling, so with play as the engine of early years and primary
years curriculum, self- directed learning is achieved.”But our kindergarten
curriculum hardly leaves any time for play because kindergartens are busy
preparing kids for primary. So the first thing we need to ‘unbox’ play and
bring it back for our preschoolers. For that we need to educate parents who are
mostly ‘incredulous’ and upset when a child comes home from preschool and says
happily that he played! Parents are clueless that most of the learning required
in the early years happens through play. Play fertilizes brain growth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">One
of the constant struggles for primary school children and their teachers is
children not being able to write and not being able to sit or focus to complete
a task. Well, Early-years specialist Dr Rebecca Duncombe, who led a study
monitoring children of school age in UK, found a higher number of kids experience
problems with their balance and coordination ultimately affecting their ability
to learn in class. “A child’s physical development level impacts their ability
to complete simple tasks such as sitting still, holding a pencil, putting on
their shoes, and especially reading – all skills essential for school,” she
said.This happens to our children in India, because we coop up children for
hours together in a desk-chair prison and make them do ‘worksheets’ and
‘workbooks’ that can show us their achievement of having learnt to
‘write’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children need movement to
develop their body and brain. Play is the work of childhood and important
foundations of learning are laid through simple play. And if you need one more
reason to increase playtime, then well, kids in Finland play and their children
score well in PISA!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
second aspect we need to look into is the curriculum of pre primary and
primary. Presently the primary curriculum is being pushed down heavily on
kindergarten leading to its ‘schoolification’. Primary schools and parents want
kids to be able to read and write before they come to grade one which makes the
kindergarten more of a preparatory time for primary school goals. Instead the
focus should be on laying the foundation for creativity, thinking, logic,
problem solving, and pro social skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why
are these important? Because besides assessing students' strengths in
mathematics, science and reading, Pisa also assessed students on an important
21st century skill - collaborative problem solving and creative thinking
skills. So simply put, how we teach our kids in kindergarten will impact how
they score in PISA. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Look
at these photos of work done by 4 year olds. Their task was to write number 4
and draw four objects. Well, they wrote number 4 and it all looks the same. But
look at their drawings of 4 objects and you will notice that when it came to
drawing 4 objects each child was creative and drew something different, a
perfect example of a task that nurtured their creative, thinking, logic and
problem solving skills. It is this creativity that we kill early on in the
kindergarten and primary years thus leading to students who can’t think or create
but can only rote learn and cram knowledge, these are not the skills required
for future success. Lets unbox our kindergarten curriculum and this can happen
only when we lessen the academic load on our primary kids. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Students
should spend more time in real world scenarios studying interdisciplinary
issues and questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The human brain is
designed to make connections.Finnish educators have listened to neuroscience
and are basing their teaching and curricula on how the brain functions and
learns. This is something that is completely ignored in India. Here is an
example- Finland does not introduce writing till age 7 or 8 because according
to Gesell Institute for Child Development, the average child cannot perceive an
oblique line in a triangle until age 5 1⁄2. This skill is a prerequisite to recognizing,
understanding, and writing certain letters. And yet in our country children as
young as 3 years are writing letters! Math is another foundation that we are
rushing into without giving children the time required to master the basics. So
at age 2 we teach them to recite numbers, age 3 count, age 4 add and age 5 subtract.
Well research says, the key to understanding concepts such as subtraction and
addition is “number conservation.” A child may be able to count five objects
separately but not understand that together they make the number five. The
average child does not conserve enough numbers to understand subtraction and
addition until 51⁄2 or 6! So unlike Finland our curriculum is not based on
developmentally appropriate practices.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And
that is why when we teach reading, writing, subtraction, and addition before
children are ready; they are ending up memorizing these skills, instead of understanding
them. And this is definitely not helping their achievement later on.According
to Yale professor Edward Zigler, a leader in child- development and
early-education policy for half a century, the academic takeover of early
learning can be understood as a shift from an “ideas-based curriculum” to a
“naming- and-labeling-based curriculum’- what we in India call Rote learning. </span></div>
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learning about Food Pyramid with hands on activity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hands on learning about angles by
moving the classroom door. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rote
learning is definitely one of the reasons we don’t score well on PISA, which is
quite evident from a 2012 PISA report that found that students who used
memorization as a study technique were the lowest achievers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning in classrooms that have ‘chalk-talk’
methods teaches children memorization is the priority, not understanding. We do
have a small number of schools using Project method, coding, experiential
learning, which are all great ideas but will never work if not understood by
teachers. Once teachers understand how the human brain learns then they would
know how to create learning situations. So it is important we change the way B.Ed.
syllabus is designed, it is important to include more emphasis on teaching
teachers how to teach, instead of what to teach, and then they in turn would be
able to focus on how children learn and not on what they learn. If we don’t
change the way our teachers teach then any change would not be possible, as the
teachers themselves would become roadblocks.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The third
aspect is we need to bring back our focus on the third teacher- the environment-
According<i> to Early Years specialist <b>Fiona Zinn</b></i>, who lectures in
the Masters of International Education programme at Melbourne University; the
third teacher- environment is missing. Most early years educators make a
beeline to study Reggio Emilia educational approach of Italy, well the most
effective inspiration to observe and implement would be the fact that Reggio
Emilia recognizes the environment as the <b>‘third teacher’ </b>(Malaguzzi).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our students still sit in classrooms designed
70 years back! Its time to match their outside world to their classroom. And so
in this new world it is important to renovate educational spaces to help education
become truly the development of the mind, body, and soul. It is important to
break the monotonous image of a traditional school and bring in a more
contemporary and scientific image of an educational environment. It is time to
fold away the ‘box’ that we call classrooms and unfold new age classrooms that
are breathing classrooms, with ‘sense’ible material, comfortable seating and
have an infusion of color inspirations and motivational designs.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Isn’t it sad that we expect our students to be creative
thinkers but the environments that they are cooped up in for study are a far
cry from being creative?One of the biggest influences on the child’s thought
process is the typology of his/her immediate surroundings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brain expert Jensen writes, ‘brain – friendly
learning environments strengthen neural connections and aid long- term memory,
planning and motivation. To be brain – friendly, they need to be places that
are comfortable and aesthetically engaging.’ Its time to bring in flexible
seating in our classrooms, <span style="color: #090000;">the </span><span style="color: #0a51d0;">immediate benefits </span><span style="color: #090000;">of
flexible seating according to Kayla Delzer, include burning more calories,
using up excess energy, improving metabolism, increased motivation and
engagement, creating a better oxygen flow to the brain, and improving core
strength and overall posture. It's no surprise that physical activity is linked
to higher academic performance, better health, and improved behavior.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It’s
become a ‘senseless trend’ to look to Finland’s educational system for
inspiration and visit their schools in an attempt to try and change the way our
students/schools achieve. Well, for that we will have to ‘unbox’ education as
it is perceived in our country and actually study how Finland achieved it and
how Singapore too is now achieving the same. What have they ‘unboxed’?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, Finland began in the 1970s and abandoned
most of the performance standards. So we need to do away with our obsession
with standard 10<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> results, schools instead of
assessing children need to start assessing the environment in which children
are taught. Its time to ‘unbox’ assessment to include life skills that are
becoming increasingly crucial to thrive in the workplace and the global world.
Its time to assess collaborative skills, problem solving skills and,how
students tackle a problem by collaborating with a partner. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The importance of collaboration skills can no
longer be undermined by India schools, as the next round of Pisa tests, in
2018, is likely to include a new measurement of global competence, which will
look at how well students can navigate an increasingly diverse world, with an
awareness of different cultures and beliefs.Time to ‘unbox’ our curriculum and
teaching-learning environment if we want to move from being ‘Fail-land’ to
‘Finland’! </span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Many
of the skills that our schools have traditionally embraced, requiring students
to master content, are becoming less important for success in the real world.
Instead, creative thinking, teamwork, and social skills are becoming more
important. Lets base our curriculum assessments on concepts and application and
not content, memory and recall. Time to move from bringing the heat on students
to making our curriculum HOT!</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">HOT- is Higher Order
Thinking skills that is thinking on a level that is higher thanmemorizing facts
or telling something back to someone exactly the wayit was told to you. HOT
takes thinking to higher levels than restating the facts and requireschildren
to do something with the facts like Understand, Infer,Connect, Categorise</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manipulate </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> apply them as they
seek new solutions to new problems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">. It is such deliberate curricular
shifts that Finland and Singapore havemade over the years that have worked in
moving their students beyond mastering content knowledge to becoming problem
solvers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Its time
to make digital literacy a common part of our primary and secondary school
curriculum. We are scared to allow kids to bring mobile phones in class, we are
afraid they will use apps, Facebook and twitter, we fear the negative impacts
of digital social media use if kids are left on their own. But we fail to
realize that we can only monitor them in school, what about when they are on
their own? So instead of becoming gatekeepers of social media and it is
important that we become role models of how digital media and social media can
be used effectively. Teach our kids digital citizenship so that they can go out
in the world as sensible digital citizens who have made great connections on twitter
and Facebook, use effective apps and rejected ineffective ones because their
school taught them digital sense. Lets help our students leave positive Digital
footprints. Protect them for a lifetime and not only for ‘now’. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rote
learning. Chalk and talk. Drill and grill. These practices are shackling our
students and its <br />
high time we ‘unbox’ education, lets begin with doing away with senseless
practices- red and blue line books, cursive handwriting, writing things 30
times, developmentally inappropriate curriculum and senseless assessments. Lets
bring focus on application-based hands on learning, lets change the way our
teachers are taught and enrich the environment in which children learn. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The CEO of
Google, Sunder Pichai, rightly said,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Indian
education should allow a system of creativity, project-based experiential
learning. We should teach students to take risks and not penalize them for
being different.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Lets learn from Finland and truly ‘unbox’ educational practices in our
schools. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us start with revamping our
teacher training programs so that teachers are geared to teach in 21<sup>st</sup>
century classrooms with 21<sup>st</sup> century tools. Teachers who understand
children and are able to relate to their changing needs. Let us invest in our
teachers, because as rightly said by Kayla Delzer- “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Relationships between
students and passionate teachers will always be the foundation of successful
classrooms.”</span></div>
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world parents and teachers have been grappling with their children falling prey
to the Blue Whale Challenge, a game that has 50 levels and ultimately results
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for parents and teachers to learn the #<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WHITE
WHALE CHALLENGE</b> to tackle this menace that is striking kids and ruining the
lives of hundreds of families.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">First it
is important that everyone is aware of the steps of the blue whale challenge to
understand the psychology behind the whole challenge. Here is a gist of how the
steps generally go:</span>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wake up at 4.20 am </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tell your best friend that you hate them,
this will lead to alienation of the teenager, </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then they have to watch a scary movie at midnight;
usually the movie is ‘The Ring’. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Once they have completed this stage they can
update their status to #iamawhale. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Through out the next steps Teen is asked to
hear sound clips, watch scary movies, Skype calls with other blue whalers, poke
needles into their body or pins in their cheeks.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">If teen wants to back out then they are
threatened with dire consequences</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For the grand finale, they are asked to make
an incision a day, watch scary movies and listen to the audio tapes on loop,</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Last step is meeting a fellow blue whaler,
and committing suicide after posting The End on their social media status.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now lets analyze what happens and why certain
teenagers become susceptible to this game and some don’t:</span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The game
is all about alienation</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">, keeping the teen away from others so that
the teen can be brainwashed. This is easy because teens, as it is don’t like to
interact with family much. So teens that don’t have a strong attachment to at
least one family member will fall prey to this. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Solution-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> work on
your attachment with your child as early as possible, attachment is not
clinging, it means trust, independence and children able to confide without
being interrogated) </span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The first
step is smartly thought of- alienation from friends</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">. Teens seek peer validation,
so this game smartly keeps them away from any kind of peer dependence by making
them say ‘I hate you’ to their best friend. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Solution-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> know your
child’s friends, and have that kind of a link where people can come and tell
you if they notice something different in your child, this can only happen if
you stop being defensive when people tell you negative things about your child.
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Waking up
early when the world is sleeping, watching horror movies, hurting or piercing
the body are all appealing to the <u>risk taking brain</u> of the teenager</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">. The
teenage brain thrives on risks and challenges. Because they have still not
reached complete impulse control, they are unable to differentiate between good
or bad, safe or unsafe, and sometimes to feel challenged or fulfilled will end
up taking spur of the moment decisions. Remember how we would play the game
‘truth or dare’ or we would call spirits during sleepovers? Well, every
generation liked to take risks, but our risks were with friends and family.
Whereas this is a risk that is taken alone because it hinges on alienation and
that is why it is scary and needs to be stopped. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Solution-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is your
child allowed to take safe risks or do you hover and molly coddle even your
teenager? When children can’t take their own decisions or simple everyday safe
risks then they don’t know what risk is and will fall head first into tricky
situations. So allow children to take risks. Dads are very good at this as they
lack the ‘molly coddle’ gene!</span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It is a
completely technology based game.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Kids are fascinated with all kinds of
technology not only because it fulfills their need for ‘exploring’ but also
fulfills their need for ‘independent exploring’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Solution-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> trust children with
technology but first train them on do’s and don’t. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It starts with how our children see us using
the Internet and social media sites. When parents use social media they should
talk about it in conversations that include comments like- “I got an invite or
poke from so and so and I did not accept as I was not sure about the identity
and want to be safe.” “ I don’t think I will post this photo as I feel it is a
little personal and I don’t want to share it with the whole world” when
children hear and see us being safe rather than casual then it translates into
their own behavior and choices. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Make
simple rules for them for their social media use-</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">You will not share your date of birth,
address and phone number or email id.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">You will not post personal photos, the
definition being no cleavage, bare chest (for boys of course!) or photos that
look sultry rather than fun.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Think before you bare your emotions on social
media, people are just reading, and forwarding, so if you have issues discuss
with your family. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Just like there are predators on the street
and when you were young we taught you not to talk to strangers or take things
from them or go anywhere with them, similarly for social media we are telling
you not to make friends with someone you do not know, do not give them any
photos or information if they ask and do not visit any sites if they ask you.
There are predators on the net too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Another
thing is to discuss Internet related crimes during healthy discussions in the
family rather than adopt an attitude of ‘I told you so’. So when such crimes of
identity theft or cyber kidnapping or blue whale reports are reported in the
media, turn it into a healthy thinking brain discussion with points like- ‘what
do you think went wrong and made things easy for this predator? ‘How would you
have avoided falling into a trap like this’? This will help your teenager take
charge of decision-making and you would have equipped him/her to take
thought-through decisions.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kids
find the blue whale game challenging and interesting for their brains-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
Marie Evans Schmidt and Elizabeth Van dewater review research on links between
various types of electronic media and the cognitive skills of school-aged
children and adolescents. When it comes to particular cognitive skills, say the
authors, researchers have found that electronic media, particularly video
games, can enhance visual spatial skills, such as visual tracking, mental
rotation, and target localization. Gaming may also improve problem-solving
skills. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Solution-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> ensure that your
child finds school and daily schedule interesting and challenging for the
brain. Otherwise boredom or stress can leave them wanting the challenge and
excitement of such games. Allow gaming but not those that have violence. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And the
last is fear and threats</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">: teenagers become susceptible to it if their
parents use threats and fear in their parenting. The designer of this game
knows that most children are disciplined with fear and threats (around the
world) and so made use of this against the teen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Solution-</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> stop threatening
your child and instilling fear about consequences. Stop this right from the
beginning, don’t let it creep into your parenting. Children who are brought up
with positive behavior management will never fall prey to such threats and
fears as they are brave and know that their parents are and will always be with
them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A
concerned citizen Geeta Punjabi from Mumbai posted on one of our Early
Childhood Association Whatsapp group and I quote- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Can someone make an online game which is exactly the opposite of Blue
Whale, in which tasks are like meeting friends, talking to your family member,
having potluck one day picnic, late night watching funny movies, visiting your
native place, playing old days games. And at the end everyone is able to
restore life, perhaps much better than the life we are living now.”</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">So here is
the White Whale Challenge- play it with your teenager, make it viral-
#whitewhalechallenge<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(you can even make
your own and here is an appeal to all those app developers please bring in the
white whale challenge) </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">All the levels have to be done before
10.00pm. No level or posting can happen after 10.00 pm. Begin with posting on social
media #whitewhalechallengeiamsmart</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They must go and tell their best friend 3
good things they like about them and post a picture on Facebook with them.</span></div>
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theme party at home. (Don’t expect teens to turn into angels, not possible, so
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The family of this little girl learning math has come out and spoken about the video and in this entire episode there is a strong message for teachers, schools, parents, families, society and the government. Its time we learned from this video episode:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Why are open houses a platform where the blame of the child’s behavior or non-performance is passed on to the parents? Its time schools and teachers took ownership and realized that ‘they’ are the educators so they will have to guide the parents firmly, passionately and with a knowledge based on the fact that when you criticize a child to its parent, it wounds the ego and self worth of the parent who then is hurt and angry and removes it on the child. This is exactly what happened to this mother, the teachers were constantly complaining to the mother that the girl is naughty (if children wont be naughty then WHO WILL BE?!!) and that the girl did not know her numbers or did not do her work. Take ownership with the parents and say during open house- “ we have observed that your child is very intelligent and does require some support while completing her work, so as her teacher I suggest that I will do the following in school to support her and you can do the following at home. Let us meet again and compare notes on what is helping and what is not so that we can change our method and make it more suitable to her needs.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">If a school complains about your child (foolish school!) it does not mean the end of the world. Your child’s first supporter is you and when you also go against your child and start getting angry, upset and stressed out then it leaves your child nowhere. Don’t do that to your child. Ask the teacher what she would like you to do and if the teacher puts her hands up and says ‘I give up’ then it is time to rethink about the school. Open houses are for sharing about the concerns that the school feels can come in the way of the child’s success and finding solutions together, not a blame game or passing the parcel! Open houses are a celebration of the child’s success in every domain and not an event for parents to dread or be bored of.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Stop blaming the child for its inability to ‘perform’ to perfection. When you compare your child to others, check the birth date of your child and the other child, you will notice there is a difference and during the first 8 years even a difference of a month makes a huge difference in the development of every child. So stop getting stressed by teachers and schools, choose wisely. This stress being put on kids is ‘pinching’ your child more than the high fees! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Stop posting your child’s videos and photos on social media, be aware that everyone is not going to be looking at the video or photo you posted from your point of view. For many it would just be the ‘forward’ of the day, don’t make your child a part of these ridiculous social media forwards however hilarious you think the video or photo is. You owe it to your child! Would you like it if when you are old and frumpy, your child posts photos of you unable to perform simple tasks or slipping and falling etc.? There is something called privacy…practice it with your child first!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Stop justifying child abuse (hitting, pinching, slapping, threatening) and start a non-violence policy in your parenting. I have seen many posts on parenting groups that it is easy to say ‘don’t hit your child’ but the child does not listen otherwise. Please remember the child is not ‘listening’ when you ‘hit’, the child is learning to be ‘intimidated’ with your brute force, which in the long term will teach your child to use intimidation with others or get intimidated by others (especially sexual predators).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Stop forwarding posts that come from your family..at least do that! Friends it is ‘social media’ and one cannot stop videos and photos from being forwarded once it reaches social media, it gets a life of its own. For all those who tried to give some conscience to those who were forwarding the video, good for you, but also stop the other videos of children acting funny etc. once a video reaches social media there is no stopping it!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Stop blaming the child and using sentences like- “why are you troubling mummy?” “why don’t you do your homework?” “see mummy is so upset with you” etc. because this will damage the self worth of young children and they will grow up feeling worthless and guilty. Stop putting the guilt on the child. Own up! Take responsibility. Stand up against violence and aggression towards children. Don’t condone it even in your homes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Stop turning a blind eye to the stress being put on little children in preschools in the name of writing, reading, and math. You with your silence are ensuring that these children are growing up with constant stress and grow up to be fractured youth. The foundation years are the most important and you with your silence and confusion about which ministry (women and child development or HRD) should define curriculum framework and guidelines of preschools in all states, are harming the future of this country. Let preschool education not be a concurrent subject in the states.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">We have great hopes from this government, so please, its time to have a separate ministry for Early Childhood Care and Education so that schools stop doing this to children and parents. Please act before it’s too late.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I can understand the trauma you must be going through because of the amount of people pointing a finger to you. Don’t blame yourself. Blame the traditional parenting and teaching in our country. You grew up learning that and you are practicing it…not your fault. But I urge you to stop feeling guilty about the video or making your child feel guilty about it. This video has started a conversation and discussion in education and parenting circles and it will bring about change…I am sure. If you need to ever talk about or discuss your parenting issues, seek a mentor, don’t discuss with friends or family members who have no solutions, seek an expert. The Early Childhood Association is there for you, reach out to us by sending a whatsapp on 0981985512 (this is an appeal to all parents). We will help you, mentor you with solutions so that you and your child can both be stress free.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I was a naughty child too and my kindergarten teachers would always complain that I talk too much and cant sit straight, but look at me today, I am successfully using my ‘talkative’ nature to give lectures and travelling from city to city to help teachers, children and parents (cant sit straight!) and I had bad handwriting..today I type!. So your little girl will also grow up to be a successful individual only if you give her the support she deserves. Childhood is about being naughty, ‘not able’ to sit in one place and talking ‘too much’… because children are exploring the world, getting to know themselves and others and when you stop this exploration, you stunt their growth and make them aggressive, impatient, and unruly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #090000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Wipe those tears woman, and go and hug your little girl and face the world and say, “yes, I erred and accepted, but what about you?” Because most mothers and fathers are doing what you are doing…the difference…their videos have not gone viral! We are there for you….and every child and parent.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">What a sick world we live in, and we don’t realize it! We are surrounded by ‘pervertness’ and perverts because of which we have children being sexually abused by uncles, school teachers and serials like Pehredaar Piya Ki where a 9 year old is married to a 19 year old and they show their suhag raat! People watch this serial without any remorse which is leading to high TRP, isn’t that sickness that this kind of wrong content is being accepted by the audience? And what about the child actor’s mother? How did she allow her son to be used in such inappropriate content? What is this blind and senseless drive to make your child famous, successful and earn money, at what cost? It shocks me because the ‘subtle’ message that is going out to all sexual perverts is that it is acceptable for a child and an adult to have a relationship!!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Sexual perverts, who rape girls and young women, chase them, hound them, and throw acid on them! We live in this sick world and either have no time to do anything about it or don’t know who to approach for the solution. So we have petitions, and marches and all, but have things changed? And then you have the other abusers- parents and teachers beating, threatening young babies and children. It is only a sick mind that can do all this and not feel remorse.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">And how can we forget choti episode! Chotis being cut in the dark of night and spreading like wild fire, is it superstition? Or just a way to get free media attention? Who knows, but the more it is being reported the more it is spreading to other cities. I wonder what would happen if the media just stopped reporting about it? Let the police look into it if it is an ongoing crime. I feel the media should use precious broadcast hours to highlight real crimes and injustice instead of focusing on such choti news!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">There is a video going viral on whatsapp of a little child who is being ‘taught’ by her mother/aunt/teacher (no idea) but the video is absolutely shocking and makes you cringe that a woman (where is the so called ‘motherly instinct’?) is threatening, slapping the child, all to make the child learn 1,2,3. The child is seen to be in a complete state of fear, depression and appeals to the woman to ‘please teach with love’ but the woman keeps terrorizing the child. As I watched this video and saw the child’s reaction flitting between violent anger and extreme helplessness, I realized that this child already has its future written for him/her, either he/she will grow up to be a child who will terrorize and abuse others or will grow up in extreme depression and take drugs or commit suicide. A wonderful life lost because of adult sickness.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">And then we have teenagers committing self-harm and suicide because of games like Blue Whale. Agreed that teenage is a period when adolescents like the ‘high’ of taking risks but there is something called adult monitoring that parents and teachers should be doing to ensure that teenagers are not falling prey to self damaging habits. It is untreated depression and social alienation that leads to teenagers being addicted to drugs or online games like blue whale.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The common cause of all of these issues is this blind chase of ‘success’ at any cost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span> </span></span>Drilled into children from very young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Why didn’t you colour properly?” “Why didn’t you get full marks?” “Why didn’t you get the main role in the school concert?”</i><span> </span>And then start the comparisons,<span> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“your cousin’s handwriting is better than yours”, or “why cant you be good in math like your friend?” “Yash got into Harvard and you…”</i><span> </span>and ends with making the child bear the weight of your disappointment,<span> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“cant you do anything right?”</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">So when kids don’t get ‘recognition’ they try to get it on online groups, every human being needs<span> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘belonging’</b><span> </span>and when the family, especially the parents and school are unable to do so then they find it in friends and to ‘belong’ they do all that their friends think is ‘cool’. Risk taking, logic, impulse control are all part of the prefrontal lobe- the thinking brain and it is this part of the brain that is not fully developed yet, hence teenagers need a calm, emotionally controlled ‘brain’ that knows how to communicate with them, but sadly we find teenagers brash, rude and tend to be brash, sarcastic and rude to them which drives them away…. to their ‘faceless friends’ on the net or social media.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">And the last culprit-<span> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">screen parenting</b>! From very early in life we are happy to pacify children, babysit children, and appreciate children with screen time. Children are growing up with listening to ‘screen’ voices more than human voices and no wonder they relate and react more to the screen voice that dictates to them what to do. Its time to move away from screen parenting and scream parenting. Social media is here to stay and we need to stop blaming it, it is a platform that helps in networking and connectivity. Just like we nurture children to understand how to make ‘real’ friends we need to educate them about ‘virtual’ friends too. It is our responsibility to make social media safe for our children. Just like we teach them road safety we need to cultivate ‘net safety’, just like we teach them etiquette we need to teach them ‘netiquette’<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Pehradaar, Blue Whale and the little baby being taught 1,2,3, are a revelation that today our society has lost its moral values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span> </span></span>When morals are lost with it is lost the ability to differentiate between right and wrong and that is what we need to give our children, the ability to choose between right and wrong and not accept wrong because others are accepting it. If we are blaming today’s youth for falling prey to Blue Whale then are not the adults falling prey to Pehredaar Piya Ki kind of serials?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Its time to move away from screen parenting and scream parenting, and time to make attachment and belonging the focus of our parenting and education and not success and failure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every child goes through kindergarten but how many parents or teachers actually know the meaning of the word or the founder of kindergarten. Today in India kindergarten has become K.G and it stands for reading, writing and number work only. But is that the real kindergarten?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friedrich Froebel, a German educationist was the founder of the kindergarten system. “Kindergarten” is a German word which means ‘children’s garden’, i.e., a place in which young human plants are cultivated. Froebel regarded the school as a garden and the teacher as gardener who carefully tends the little human plants under his care, and helps them to grow to beauty and perfection.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to him the development of the child is to be through play. He said,<span> </span><i>“play is the most beautiful and most spiritual activity of man at this stage. It exhibits freedom and creative activity. It satisfies the child, for it gives expression to so many of his instincts. In play, the child makes the internal external and so the work of teaching in the kindergarten system is to be done in the play spirit. The child will be and should be taught everything through play.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the complete education and training of the child Froebel devised a series of ‘gifts’. Yes, he did not call them ‘toys’ or ‘material’ but ‘gifts’, because that is how he wanted them to be presented to the child. The gifts comprise of carefully graduated series of materials that possess all the novelty of playthings, yet they form the basis of his educational method. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are to train the senses of sight and touch, to give the child an idea of size and surface, and to present the child a correct idea of number. The gifts are to be given to the child in a certain order. The gradation and order of gifts is determined by the principle of development. The gifts are altogether twenty in number but here I will describe the first four.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US">Gift I</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US">- consists of six coloured woolen balls three in primary colours, red, yellow and blue, and three secondary colours, orange, green and purple. The activity consists in rolling them about in play. Thus they develop in the children the idea of colour and material, form, motion, direction, and muscular sensibility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US">Gift II</span></u></b><u><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span></span></u><span lang="EN-US">is composed of a sphere, cube and cylinder made of hardwood. In playing with these the child notices the difference between the stability of the cube, and the mobility of the sphere. He/she observes that the cylinder is both stable and movable, and that is harmonizes both the qualities in one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Parents and teachers are responsible for nurturing language skills in children. Language is best taught through imitation and by doing the following with children…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Provide a language rich environment-</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Expose the child to songs and stories</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Label everything in the environment</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Choose age appropriate books- first picture books, then books with one word, then books with short sentences and then short stories.</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Let the child name objects</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Do not make the child repeat after you</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Use songs that have chorus lines that children can participate in</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Listen, listen, listen and listen when they talk- do not prompt, interrupt or correct them when they are trying to talk.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. ‘I will want to talk only if I have something to talk about’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. ‘If you correct me while I am talking, I will forget what I was going to say.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. “The more I listen, the better I will talk.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Listening is a very important skill to language development. Some do’s and don’t’s for early care givers-</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> First get the child’s attention and then give the instruction</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Don’t nag, yell or be shrill</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Never make children repeat the sentence after you. For ex. If the child said- ‘I went water’, Do not say, ‘no dear, it is I want water’, now say it. Instead just say, ‘oh, you want water’. Listening to you will automatic ally teach him the right words and pronuncation</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><u>Teach children instructions.</u></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For this I have successfully used the step method, many teachers and parents that I have taught it too, find it extremely successful-</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> At age one your child should be able to follow one step directions- like ‘come here’, ‘sit here’ etc</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> At age two, your child should be able to follow two step directions, like- ‘bring the ball and come here’ etc</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> At age three its time for three step directions, ‘go to the table, pick up the spoon and bring it here’.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> At age four, your child should be able to follow 4 step directions and by age 5 and forever at least 5 step directions. Because when your child joins primary school/high school the teacher uses a lot of directions in her conversation, children who are unable to listen tend to ask their neighbour and get labeled as talkative and the child who tends to ask the teacher what to do gets labeled as a baby, always requiring help! So to make their life easier, start playing direction games at home. (also important, how many step directions are you able to follow?)</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Singing songs, reading stories to children all help in developing listening skills. Also important is to let children listen with their ‘ears’ and not their ‘eyes’! Do not translate all your instructions into actions, then they will look at your actions and understand what you are saying, then they will not listen. Always wait for the children to stop talking before you give instructions, do not shout instructions, sing the instructions if you have to-</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twinkle twinkle little star</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time to wind up, where you are.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time to put your toys away</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time to tidy up the class</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twinkle twinkle little star.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is an excellent game to improve attention span, listening skills and the ability to follow instructions:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 11pt;">v<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Begin this activity by placing large squares with animal patterns (stripes of a zebra and tiger, spots of a leopard and deer etc.) on the floor, in a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Here are some great management principles disguised in simple everyday games and rhymes. Play and sing while you learn and lead!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> Become a better leader, mentor your team to be more organized and be able to manage time, change and people, effectively and successfully. Try it, it is fun and it works too. Play the games given below with your teams and then at the end of the game share the management gyan with them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span> </span></span></span><b><i><u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Passing the parcel-</span></u></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">everyone knows how to play this game- but what team management lesson does this game teach us? - Simple, do not pass the buck, some day the ball will stop at you and you will get the forfeit. So do your work and your duty and if at fault take the blame, don’t pass the buck!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span> </span></span></span><b><i><u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I spy game</span></u></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">– a simple game, in which you hide an object and others have to find it. What does this game teach us? – It teaches us to be keen observers and look for the hidden quality threats in our centre. So play this game often as it develops keen observation skills which will help staff to seek out what’s wrong. It can be a miss spelt word on a chart, a cobweb hiding in a corner, a nail sticking out from the furniture, a water puddle that can be a potential safety threat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span> </span></span></span><b><i><u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mary had a little lamb- and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- what does this rhyme teach us?- a simple management principle- Follow the culture of the organisation. Be a good leader and train your team well, explain the reasons behind the rules and the systems<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> and then you will have stress free teams that focus and agree on quality, quality, quality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span> </span></span></span><b><i><u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Race around the clock with hickory dickory dock</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- time management is the lesson from this rhyme. With the advent of social media, teams now struggle with multiple tasks and don’t know how to prioritize for time management. The mouse knew what to do when the clock struck one- do you? Teach your teams to set an hour wise timetable/target for themselves. A beautiful way to teach and practice time management.</span></div>
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Dr. Swati Popat Vatshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13238068978053483659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732762894645366169.post-78646807337865307272017-09-08T03:34:00.002-07:002017-09-08T03:34:36.829-07:00When the bough breaks the cradle will fall….down will come baby, cradle and all…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the most important aspects of achieving Quality Standards is the ability to sustain them in early childhood care and education projects. Quality and policies are not a goal to achieve and forget, but a mission to uphold everyday in every aspect.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I compare what is happening today in the early childhood sector to the Titanic because the Titanic sank when it ran into an iceberg and this tragedy lost lives, valuables, and trust of thousands of people. Last year early childhood care and education in our country too has faced its share of icebergs, the past year has not been very good for early ch<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>ildhood care and education especially the big dent it has left on parents trust of branded and unbranded chains. Be it the chaos and stress that parents experienced because of the closing down of a branded chain of preschools or the severely dangerous incidents that happened in daycares and preschools leading to trauma, injury and even death in some cases.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When such instances occur we always blame it on external factors (icebergs) such as the lack of CCTV or for example- in the case of the famous preschool chain that left parents stranded blamed it on an investor! This means that just like the Titanic we assume we sink due to an ‘external iceberg’. But did you know that it was not just an iceberg that sank the Titanic? Ongoing research from British journalist Senan Molony, has evidence that proves that: The real reason for it’s sinking was a fire outbreak in the fuel tank bay of the ship, which happened before the Titanic took off on its journey. Due to the fire the ships hull heated up to 1,000 degrees Celsius and when Titanic hit the iceberg the steel gave way with a huge gap as under extreme heat steel becomes fragile and loses 75% of its hardness.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These knee jerk reactions till now have not looked into the core issues but have given ‘so called solutions’ (different in different states!) like registering preschools with local authorities (how does that help? So paying 25,000 and kids are safe?) Or passing a child protection policy that states that child care centers should be in safe areas and to have cctv cameras (the Kharghar daycare where a child was beaten up by a caretaker had cctv cameras, did that deter the caretaker?) or bringing a new rule that preschools cannot be set up in residential areas! (So is a commercial area safe for young children? And the amount of time they will travel to reach these areas, is that good for them?). An earnest appeal from the Early Childhood Association to the team deciding the safety policy for Maharashtra and other states-</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Involve key stakeholders like Early Childhood Association, Branded Day care and Preschool owners who have been successful in running quality centers till date, Parents who will actually benefit from these policies. Until you do not involve all of these you will not have a workable policy that safeguards children keeping the ground reality in mind.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do not limit safety policies to a certain age group, because by doing so you are suggesting that safety ends with that age group (in this case it is up to 3 years, so what about 3 to 6 years?)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a comprehensive safety policy for birth to 6 years both for early childhood care (daycares, crèches) and early childhood education (playschools, preschools, balwadis, kindergartens). This policy should cover all safety aspects be it school buses, center safety, childcare safety and safety during field trips as these children are taken on short field trips.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do not limit it only to a policy on paper, have detailed guidelines on how to achieve implementation of<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> <span> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">the policy. For example just stating that centers to have CCTV cameras is not going to help, as seen in the Kharghar case there was a CCTV camera but no one was monitoring it.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Define a training program/course for Early childhood Education and care, presently there is no course defined like we have B.Ed. course. Also courses presently being run lack latest global research and topics like risk assessment, fire drills and child proofing centers etc.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bringing a policy is fine but who will ensure that it is implemented? Bring in associations like ours to help audit centers regularly.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One nation- One Policy- Be it for starting preschools or curriculum or safety etc. there should be one common policy with defined non-negotiable for every state to follow. States can then add relevant cultural or area specific points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Consultative process before defining policies, laws and regulations in<span> </span><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">early Childhood care and education- government should involve important stakeholders before defining laws or policies, involve associations like Early Childhood Association , parents and center owners as we know the ground reality of how and what needs to and can be implemented.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Define the developmentally appropriate curriculum and assessment for all ages in the early years centers, so that a child in Delhi or Chennai is not being exposed to different learning expectations that are not in line with their age or stage of development.</span></li>
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