In a gathering the one who is throwing her/his weight around is easily identified and labeled “throwing attitude”. This is now the new normal usage of attitude. If someone is being arrogant or difficult or disrespectful you do question the person’s attitude. Positivity always makes you hungry for more, it pushes you to do better.[…]
This Sunday – Q: How do you encourage innovation in your child?
Is there a God up there who decides how much are we going to get and when? Many believe there is one. That’s an easy route to take. We’ve often seen failures attributed to destiny and success to hard-work. If there is destiny unfolding it is not discriminating between successes and failures. It is decisions[…]
Take it easy policy is good if the stretches are few and far between. Taking it easy for a wee bit more than needed leads to complacency. Being complacent is accepting mediocrity and mediocrity doesn’t even have an outside chance of success in this cut throat world. Ceteris Paribus works well in theory, change is[…]
Success is supreme but failure is never the end of the story. It is all about getting up after a failed attempt, dusting oneself and setting eyes on the target again. There are no secrets in locked cupboards which can make one succeed. Persistent and consistent hard work is the cornerstone, rest almost everything falls[…]
There are dreams and there are dreamers. There are dreamers and then, there are passionate dreamers. It takes a passionate dreamer to make sure good dreams happen and bad dreams just fade away. To live life is easy, everyone lives. To thrive, it needs passion to be by your side, now and every moment. Passion[…]
Oral storytelling is the backbone of our society’s evolution and nothing is going to change that. From folktales to fairytales, stories connect parents to children like a glue. Once kids get a hang of stories from books or otherwise, they just want more and more. Storytelling empowers the kid as much as it empowers the[…]
Provocation is a two-way traffic, there is an agent provocateur and the one who loses it all. Getting angry is easy, making sense of what you are mad about is difficult. Moreover, forgiving others for their mistakes is not easy and forgetting one’s own blunders is easy. Contradictions are part of life, errors are part[…]
Do share your answers, suggestions and thoughts on our Sunday EdCamp question for today: Q. With children, whether at home or at school what gets you through their resistance?