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As a parent or teacher, when something goes wrong with children, we tend to get dismayed. almost wishing that nothing should go wrong. But a more empowering way is to embrace every bad news! Listen to how every bad news is actually good news.
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When a child vomits what do we focus on? When a child misbehaves what do we focus on? If we realize that misbehavior is just the vomit that we see, then we change our attention to the child, not the vomit.
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Everything that the child encounters and experiences are something to learn about and learn from. Every experience, every interaction, every event can lead to multitudes of learning in every area of a child’s development. We neither force nor intend learning.
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What are the learning stages and how does that lead us to learn or leave learning.
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The truth is WE (parents and teachers) are the ones who limit our children – how and why – let us figure out and then get out of their way.
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Yes, a lot of learning happens just like that! How to enrich the just like that learning?
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Many of us use rewards or punishment to control children and their behavior. Sometimes we just use them because we think they are default or required. Its time to rethink!
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As a parent or teacher, we tend to praise the child to encourage the child or make him/her feel happy. This podcast questions praise and offers a new way of empowering the child.
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Who is responsible for our feelings? What responsibility about feelings are children learning from us? How can we inculcate this understanding/sense of ownership?
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One of the most common issue that parents come to us is – my child is shy or my child lacks confidence.
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We’re making an assertion, not because it is right or wrong, but simply because it leads to some important thoughts and implications. The assertion is that child – or more specifically childhood is a myth.
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As a parent or teacher, we tend to either shy away from this topic – hoping child will not be abused or we give direct gyan of what the child is supposed to do. But the reality is complex and definitely we cannot take chances – it is child’s right to be safe from abuse and we need to prepare the child to prevent or report abuse. This podcast offers a way of empowering the child to be able to do so.
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Language is something many thing starts with ABC. But, in reality, it starts from the day we are born or maybe before. It starts with LISTENING.
In fact, it happens daily, as we engage in living fully.
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We recently went to a place near Mangalore to learn surfing on waves – children and us few adults. Here are some interesting Unparenting reflections.
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Somehow we do not want our child to be fearful of anything. We want to imminently weed out every fear – but don’t we in the whole process build a fear of fear!
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Is communication too overrated? What instead we can work on that will help the child’s development.
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Many of us want our child to be confident. But what if the confidence itself was not important? Come lets change our paradigm.
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Actually children do not misbehave. They are trying their best. It just looks like misbehaviour to us. Armed with insight lets explore how we can work with children.
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Let us explore two aspects of happiness, that somewhere we know, but still, we pass onto children the notion that will not really help them.
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Do you think your child is beautiful? Does your child thinks that he or she needs to be beautiful? Can this be an issue – lets explore.