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  • Alternatives to Rewards and Punishments

    Rewards and Punishments are two sides of same coin. Both work on extrinsic control. Shall we control the child by the means of rewards and punishments or shall we sensitize the child to have better intrinsic controls.

  • Ask Teenagers

    Ask a teenager about wet dreams or confusion in their life or crush….and tell them it’s all natural! When we shared this with kids, they really felt RELIEVED that there is nothing wrong with them and it’s all natural. They were fine to share all those tiny winy thing they feel inside, have self doubt…

  • Young Adults at Campus

    Young adults bringing joy and leaning with their experience at Aarohi campus. Preeti, an architect, her heart is in eco architecture. She sharing her skills with kids, making adobe mud bricks. She so naturally connected with kids. Guiding them to make bricks, sharing layout of our resource area, and sharing many different ways we can…

  • Affirmation

    Affirmations, positive or negative , if repeated over time becomes the part of belief system. Lets create affirmations which help the child to see his own potential.

  • 25 Keys to Developing Success Skills and Values in Children

    Questioning helps thinking. Thinking leads to discovery. Question about self leads to self – discovery. Self awareness is the best formula for success.

  • How to Help Discover Child’s True Potential

    Is parenting about solving children’s problems in the name of support or is it about letting children bask in the glory of their own solutions? Questioning children can help them to peel layers and see inside.

  • Every Bad news is a Good news

    Good stems from bad. Goodness does not have any meaning without tasting the bad. Parents can celebrate all their worries of bad behavior of children. This is an opportunity to create good.

  • Independent Learner

    Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a life time. Few years back I was reprimanded by my daughter’s teacher for not making my daughter learn her spellings for the dictation. Yes, I had seen the entry in her diary…

  • Excellence is a Habit

    Repetition creates the habit loop, then why not repeat the traits which are needed to live a good life. Stimulate children to build these traits. To know how, read on.

  • Help by Not Helping

    Unwarranted help may create resource handicapped children. The power of struggle will plant the seeds of independent problem solving.

  • if

    Living together allow us to experience life as it is. Revenge, hatred, greed and jealousy are part of living together. We read the first paragraph of the poem IF by Rudyard Kipling. Some kids immediately related “waiting and not get tired while we line up for food or cake distribution”. Some related to “If someone…

  • Elephants and Livining

    Animals means ‘attack’. Knowing more about Tigers tells us that they are SHY animals!- very opposite of their images in human minds. Its November and Ragi grown commonly by villagers around the campus is in full bloom. Starting November Elephants also start crossing from around the campus and we call it ‘elephant season’. Elephants like…

  • Fitness and learning

    We all know we need to exercise 🙂 But we all do not exercise!!!And so our kids At Aarohi journey began with regular sports. It took time for kids to come out and play organised sports…we realized that while kids play and play a lot but when it comes to organized sports it brings self…

  • Neighbourhood Walk

    Neighborhood walk began with a small wish to know neighbours around campus! Some kids joined in the journey. We go out for an hour almost every day. No agenda, no routes … we just walk in any field, follow any shepherd, talk to anyone … go around the country side. After rains road was damaged,…

  • Joy of nature

    Nature brings joy! While working at campus one of the child spotted a snake eating a frog, Soon the whole campus was observing. We wondered how can such small mouth gulp such a big frog… we watched the whole process for an hour from a safe distance. All our questions were answered. Our inquiring mind…

  • Learning Kitchen

    Kitchen is considered a place to just cook that’s all. At aarohi kitchen is another learning space with people constantly visiting to share their passion in many different forms. Sangeetha, brought history, chemistry and baking together at campus. She began with sharing about history of baking, moved on chemical reaction of yeast and water and…

  • How things work

    Imagination is good, its creative………we nurture it in many ways at Aarohi, we also nurture structure!!! Well, we worked on making things using step by step instructions. The theme was ‘how things works’. We looked in various resources which gave us simple steps to make things . Some kids wanted to just read and watch…

  • Making of a product

    Each entrepreneur has a story behind…some success to celebrate, some mistakes to learn from. Visit to KidKen factory was with many learnings for us. It began with knowing the story behind making of KidKen – the journey is inspiring, starting from a small place and nowhere, reaching to a place where one is producing complete…

  • Forest from kids view

    I could never thought of making video from speaker’s point of view. Amazing comparison of parks of city and forest. Never thought that ‘parks’ are same, but they are different. The END is beautiful. Liked ‘question’ way of documentation. Liked the questions and self explanations (thoughts and self exploration) and observations. I have heard basic…

  • Creativity

    This session began with greeting right with left hand and left with right hand wishing ‘Have a great day!’ Then kids crossed hands and shook hands with their neighbours forming an interconnected circle and wishing ‘Have a great day!’ Kids enjoyed shaking hands. Few kids didn’t know the meaning of ‘Have a great day’. Few…

  • Games in learning…….

    Exploring a game in different ways…. We started to discuss about cricket and most of them were in to it… some had already played the game, some had watched the game before… We were talking about the way the game was played and were reasoning out a few things like…. Why only 2 people enter…

  • About Me

    This session was to explore self. We greeted with thumb on nose and waving other fingers. Kids were excited and happy to greet this way… Played a game to perform different actions for different fruits… Kids were excited and involved in the game…. Then we watched Barfi song 8 times each time focussing on 8…

  • Beliefs

    This session was to explore ones beliefs using stories. This time we greeted by placing one hand on the back of head and one hand on tummy and bending down. Reversing hands alternatively. Kids participated joyfully. Then we played Yes/No game…. Kids answered a few question without verbalising, but with actions. For Yes, hands behind…

  • Letting Grow

    Any growth is a change. Children also go through this change in various ways not just age. Question is are we growing as parents?

  • Letting Succeed

    Success is made of two things – one, to find what is one’s strength . Two, to strengthen those strengths continuously.

  • Dance Therapy

    Dance is therapeutic – Let newspaper guide you to dance. Let dupatta decide flow of your dance. Melt like a ice cream while dancing and meditating. Session with Asawari on dance therapy with kids.

  • Diwali

    Fastest Diwali preparations – no instructions, no pre plans. We all got something from home to celebrate Diwali – Diyas, Crackers, Sweets and our joy. At campus we opened two boxes full of Puja material, kids choose what and how they wanted … and we celebrated the festival of joy with our JOY.

  • Act of Kindeness

    We were served with love and care for every meal at Kanha Resort restaurant at Kanha. One of the days our breakfast got delayed, we had option of waiting, playing or also getting bored. We decided to take part in working of restaurant…the place which was serving to us for so many days, we like…

  • Trip to Kanha Tiger Reserve

    Trip to Kanha Tiger Reserve was not only about tigers! It began with preparation and understanding our own fears and beliefs about travelling in sleeper class. Then, next in the line was series of apprehensions on or rather images of travel – getting lost, fear of strangers, appropriate toilets, travel arrangements, food, away from parents,…

  • Forest beyond Animals

    When we went to Kanha Tiger Reserve, for most of us, TIGER was on top of our mind. After two days of Safari and roaming around we went for a Forest walk to experience what else the forest is made up of. We had already experienced Deer, Sambhar, Gaur, Swamp Deer, Owls, Eagles, Fox, Jackal,…