Education
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Learning process of a child, How babies, toddlers and kids learn!
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are three basic types of learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. For learning, we depend on our senses to process the information around us. The same goes for children as well. Children’s learning process is like a builder constructing a house—one brick at a time, step by step. The first few years may feel slow, but then the pace accelerates rapidly (a bit like the sudden growth of a YouTube channel). You and your family play a vital role in what your child learns during these crucial early years. Here are some famous child psychologists & their theories to support my article – Jean Piaget (1896–1980)…
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Unity in diversity: 10 ways you can teach children diversity
Reading Time: 8 minutesHow many miles must we march for freedomHow many wars will we have to bearbefore our homeless have a world that feeds thembefore our children have a world that caresWe are one, we are one –Kennedy Thompson Once upon a time, people used to live in a tree, they used to hunt for food, they used to live in a pack, they used to eat raw meat sometimes they got killed by wild animals. Survival was difficult. All human species were the same, hardly any differences here and there. Then civilization happened, they learn, adapt, change: people become smart. They spread all around the world, according to…
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Why less screen is more fun and how to have unplugged childhoods
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis could be one of the important & necessary articles I am gonna write in this era, I guess. “Screen time” refers to the time spent watching TV, playing a video game, holding an iPad or tablet, or being on the computer. Activities spent away from a screen will help with creative and physical development. Here is an article posted by The Hindu on this topic. With the easy exposure of electricity & the internet, children are drawn to this like never before. To some extent, for educational purposes, it’s not harmful; however, beyond a certain limit, it can cause more harm than good. Recreational activities such…
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12 Fun and valuable Vacation Activities for Kids
Reading Time: 7 minutes“Time is a luxury. You can’t save it & it will not wait for you”. So you gotta use it correctly. Vacation! That word creates a great deal of joy in the minds of students and children. whether its summer vacation, winter vacation, Christmas vacation or Diwali vacation for that matter. Children like vacation because, freedom from homework, freedom from class, this feeling makes the children happy. Summer vacation is interesting and fun for kids as they get a chance to enjoy and discover a lot of things like surfing, eating ice cream, singing, art and trying out a bunch of other different hobbies etc. So we…
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12 Uncomfortable Truths Every Adult Learns Eventually
Reading Time: 12 minutesOur world is neither perfect, nor are we. The way we think about life, as well as live life, is different for everyone. We share this planet with almost 8 billion people. Everyone has their own point of view, different opinions, different faiths, beliefs, different religions, etc. Why we titled this article Brutal Truth is, Truth is different than fact, while facts stay the same, truths are an ever-evolving concept that has more to do with perception than anything else. These are some facts that have been with us for ages, but people pretend that these are just don’t exist, despite having faced many of them throughout…
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12 Things that you should teach your child as soon as possible in 21-century
Reading Time: 11 minutesKid’s are blank paper, whatever you will write on them they will become that. So when it comes to child education & upbringing it’s very difficult & confusing for any parents to understand what is best for their child & what is not!. Life is a complicated game, filled with moving pieces, changing environments, changing rules & unfortunately it doesn’t come with a rule book, so we asked ourselves what would be the common traits and patterns shared by hundreds of people who we believe are successful. this includes people like innovators like Elon mask, entrepreneur like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, investors like Warren Buffett,…
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Why You Should Travel with Kids
Reading Time: 8 minutesLife’s too short to eat the same type of food every single day. Not exploring the food culture of the world is a major sin in our eyes, & should be punished accordingly. Imagine there’s a book with thousands of pages and you read over and over again the same first page & never turning it over. Even hearing that makes you think of how stupid it actually is, but that’s how most people live their lives. Human is not supposed to do like this. We are a living being of nature. Hence, it is as important as breathing air to go in nature once in a…
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How art makes child smart & 5 ways to start it?
Reading Time: 9 minutesEveryone loves art in some way or another. Some people love songs, some movies, some drawing, some photography, acting, video making, etc. Art allows us to experience the world in a joyful &wider way. This world would be a much better place if art were the centre point of it. Some of the best places in the world, Italy, France, Germany (mostly the European continent), are full of art & natural beauty. To make you better understand, let us put this in this way. You love money, but you hate being at the bank! Right? huh! Think why!!!???? A bank is a place filled with money, but…
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10 ways to help in your child’s language development
Reading Time: 8 minutesIntroduction The capacity to acquire and use language is a key aspect that distinguishes humans from other species on earth. Although it is difficult to pin down what aspects of language are uniquely human, there are a few design features that can be found in all known forms of human language, but that are missing from forms of animal communication. For example, many animals are able to communicate with each other by signalling to the things around them, but this kind of communication lacks the arbitrariness of human vernaculars (in that there is nothing about the sound of the word “dog” that would hint at its meaning).…
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Parenting Wisdom Across Time: Chanakya, Piaget, and Freud.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIndia’s history is filled with deep insights into life and parenting. One of the greatest voices is Chanakya (Kautilya), advisor to Chandragupta Maurya. Centuries later, Western psychology produced thinkers like Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud, who also offered frameworks for understanding childhood. Though they lived in different eras and cultures, their ideas surprisingly connect. Chanakya’s Parenting Wisdom Chanakya advised: He also described Saam (dialogue), Daam (incentive), Dand (discipline), and Bhed (strategy) as methods of influence, which can be reinterpreted metaphorically for parenting. Jean Piaget’s Stages of Development Piaget showed that children think differently at each stage: Freud’s Psychoanalytic Lens Freud emphasized that early childhood experiences shape personality.…
