Silence

I t's pretty true that I am not a parent but fortunately I got a chance to avail lifetime subscription to be amongst children of the right age 3-18 years and along with this could see children raised in families which seems to me a bonus to my personal understanding of children. I always put my efforts to understand children, honestly because I am also one of those who always felt that being a child I was not understood or misunderstood as it suits to the readers of this article but to some what percentage this is the truth with most of us.  So my first step towards learning to understand children and my conclusion which took years till I started writing a few weeks ago can be concluded this way that "children have their own feelings and at the same time limitations of understanding at each age group" and I validate my journey of understanding them today.  Not only me but you all must have experienced children for getting hurt over- -not getting a compliment for timely wo...

  O ver the years during my professional journey I have met thousands of parents and especially those who were looking for a school to admit their child either for the first time or switching from one school to another, I got a chance to interact. I always asked them what they were expecting from school and honestly 80-90% had a common response “GOOD EDUCATION”. Yes, you are correct, they all had a great answer but ohhh… they meant only GOOD GRADES decorated in the grade card as answer and had no idea what was the actual definition of “GOOD EDUCATION” while the actual answer lies in the depth of these two words and our own understanding only plays an important role here. I understand it this way that looking at beautiful roses is the end result, however the right environment, enough opportunity, required fertilizer, watering and timely care is something which makes the plant get us beautiful desired roses. And I am sure you got my point. Schooling is a journey where children grow d...