Schools should be places where children can learn, grow, and feel safe- Protecting Children When I was in 9th standard, I tried to change my institution. I had to study science and there were no teachers in the school in my village. After going through great resistance, I convinced my family and was admitted to another school. When I was sitting in the classroom on the first day, the class in charge called me. I went up to the teacher, as…
Choosing the right school for your child is one of the most important decisions you will make as a parent. A drawing teacher says he once saw a child drawing a strange picture in a notebook. The teacher asks him. Son! What are you doing?The child innocently replies, “I’m drawing a picture of God”.The teacher asks him that no one has seen God, so how can he draw a picture of him?The child gives a very interesting answer.“Sir, if you wait…
Parents should remember that the early years of education and parental involvement are essential. These are the years when the child’s mind develops and this makes him intelligent. Children who are not given special attention can have weak minds.
As an educator and administrator, I would strongly advise parents to teach their children the alphabet, numbers, colours, animal names, etc. at home before sending them to school, so that they will be confident when they get there. Teachers and fellows will compliment them. This process will serve as the basis for the child’s literacy.
In our society, love and sympathy are hardly valued, but we even hate when we sleep, and we do it every time (This enforce protecting children). The person we hate knows our feelings or not, but we kill ourselves hating them. We melt our minds in this hatred. We also expect the whole world to hate him and kick him out of our circle of friends. Hatred is a very common disease. This disease causes little or no harm to the individual in front of the hater and just to himself (the hater).
Parents are children’s first teachers. The child’s mind comes to them in the form of a blank paper and they start writing on it through their words and actions. These are the daily routines that we do unconsciously and pass on to our unconscious, unconsciously. Parents usually continue to explain to the children by being a teacher and hoping that the children will follow their advice, but this is not the case. Children look up to adults and imitate them.
At some distance from the road, in the wilderness where there were no houses far away, there was a small cottage on the side of the way. Half had collapsed and half of the roof was still hanging on two walls. I entered the cottage from the back (the part which had fallen). In the part where the roof still remained, there was a box and a bucket in which some clothes were kept for washing. In the courtyard, there was a small tree and a small hut (Chapar) to protect from the scorching sun, and two or three small beds were lying in it.
Children want to experiment with everything new. Let any normal activity that is not harmful to the child, so that his curiosity is over, and they can move on to the next step. A famous teacher, I heard at TEDx said, that once he was teaching robotics to third graders when a girl came to him with a problem. There was a conversation between this teacher and the girl, which is a model for parents and teachers. Girl: Sir my robot…
Whatever you say, or do with the children, it is recorded, and they decide once rules are formed in their minds. Words have great power. It can create gaps of hatred and can fill the existing ones. It all depends on how the speaker uses these words. You have probably heard that some regions’ dialects have unique sweetness. They speak in your language, but their words are sweeter. They are really polite. This accent must have been passed down to them…
Everything you do once you enter the home, you are sending a message to the children You must have seen that when you rise up to pray, your 2-year-old son approaches you and does the prayer gestures. A two-year-old toddler has no idea what this procedure is. Is it good or bad? What is the point of it? But he stands up to pray with you because he sees you doing it every day, and it is in the nature of…
Whether You Are Rich or Poor, It Doesn’t Matter to the Child. What Matters to Them Is How You Make Them Feel I boarded the first van to school at 5:30 a.m. Like me, two women seated in the second row were on their way to school. A young boy, perhaps 9–10 years old, was sat next to these teachers; I considered him to be the teacher’s son, but when the child began collecting the fare, I saw the problem: his…
