Category: Blogs
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Can Aarohi Help Your Child Discover Their Strengths?
Do you agree that every human being has certain unique capabilities and strengths? Then why do we continue to test children based only on reading and writing exams? How can we, as adults, decide a child’s capabilities based on a single test and label them as intelligent, average, or “not smart enough”? Haven’t we seen…
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This Isn’t Alternative. It’s Real.
Last weekend, a whole bunch of alumni families met at Aarohi. We got to reconnect with the campus and with each other and see how everyone is doing. Turns out—everyone’s living regular lives. Open learning didn’t take that away. We’re all chasing aspirations, hitting bumps, getting back up, reaching goals, and missing some. Basically, we’re…
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One gift every child deserves
If you could give your child just one gift, what would it be? Unconditional love? Freedom? Maybe just being their best buddy? At Aarohi, we think the best gift ever is support. Support to discover who they are, to explore their strengths, and to grow into their unique selves. It’s about standing by them, believing in…
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE as part of education
Have you ever thought of how important is the study of emotions? What are your thoughts on why it has been kept away from education? Aren’t emotions the very basis of how we relate to the world around us and eventually to ourselves? There are many pioneers in the field of EQ and all the…
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What toddlers can teach adults about ‘learning for joy’
Look at the world around us, everyone is fixated with learning milestones, standard achievements, perfect outputs and the likes. Especially our image of associating learning with a certain type of output is in itself a huge limitation. A limitation that sneakily slips out of our consciousness. Suddenly all we care is about chasing the output…
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What can mentor’s sensitivity do to a child’s dreams?
We are so quick to judge and analyse the shortcomings of our children especially when they enter the teen phase. We tend to scrutinise each of their moves fearing if they are productive or not, as per our standards. This 13 year old surprised all of us with her persistence this week. When she first…
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4 life lessons parents can learn from children
As adults, we are perennially in a hurry to teach our children. How about pausing for a moment and pondering what we can learn from them instead. That’s exactly what the last week has been like for me. A big opener! Children expose our conditioning Children are a mirror to our own conditionings, only if…
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Curriculum based education v/s child based education
Most people say Here are key highlights of Child-based-Education as per our observations of children over the last 16 years at arohi
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The only qualification you need to facilitate children
Now, facilitation is utterly different from teaching children. At Aarohi, as facilitators we are not teaching the child any subjects or concepts. Rather our role is to ignite their inherent fire and curiosity to learn using various processes and tools. And the only qualification you need to do this is to be in the ‘Not…
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Curiosity drives the child’s learning
Is your child’s education or learning driven by school or curiosity? In today’s curated lives, learning has also become highly structured. Here is a slice of the day from a family – Children often come home from school and immediately rush off to their tuition classes. While academic performance is crucial for child’s development, excelling…
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Does your child struggle to sit in a classroom and study?
In a traditional school system, many kids struggle because they either find the subjects uninteresting or can’t relate to them. Each child has their own reasons. It’s a system where not every child thrives because it focuses on a fixed curriculum and exams, rather than child’s interests or natural abilities. At Aarohi, kids have the…
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Workshop: How to do HomeSchooling UnSchooling & Open Learning
Consider this workshop as full of unique process you can adopt in your journey of how to do homeschooling unschooling openlearning.For example the importance of reflection as self assessment or how to use every problem as an opportunity to learn. In the 1st session we will lets behold our child as the responsible leader of…
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10 Myths about child’s future that give parents anxiety
Here are 10 MYTHs – which we think are unnecessarily making parents anxious. Now we are sure you would not like to gift your child an anxious parent. 🫣 So lets discuss each of these deeply, so that we can rest some of our anxieties.Needless to say a more detailed discussion can happen in our…
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Planning for Challenge
I believe many of you have planned your days, weeks, or even months using different tools or methods. We all know that planning helps us get things done. Some people might say, “I’m not a planner,” but after reading this, you might start to see the value in planning. When people claim they don’t like…
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Jagriti AKSD
Jagriti works on contribution basis. The indicated contribution* for the Jagriti program is ₹15,000/- This includes 11 sessions, loads of reference materials and interactions, 1:1 sessions if you need after the program, and repeating Jagriti partly or fully in any future batch. Above is AKSD – Apni Khushi Se Doh (translation – Give as per your wish)…
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I Decide Content
In open Learning, at Aarohi, Child decides what to do / learn (content) based on the multitude of exposures the child has. Here is what we offer – a world map – where the ‘world’ is defined by whatever one can learn in this world! We have divided all learning content into NINE categories. Pl note as with…
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Aarohi compared with conventional education
Swipe left to see all the slides (5) Above comparison is not to say that one system is better than the other, rather to bring clarity in understanding of Aarohi and Open Learning
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Aarohi compared to other systems
Aarohi Compared to Montessori, Waldorf, Progressive, HomeSchooling and traditional Education Systems. Aarohi has a unique education philosophy. Aarohi means evolving – hence is does not itself stick or subscribe to anyone kind of education system. The core is based on two thoughts Education is about child’s life and hence should be led by the child.…
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How can children deal with boredom – Question from a parent
A parent raised the following concern in our WhatsApp Open Learning Community “ I’ve been feeling a bit bored lately and sometimes I just don’t feel like learning or doing anything. Has anyone else felt this way? How do you stay motivated and make learning fun, especially in Open Learning? Any tips or advice on…
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A child sharing observations and reflections from his trip to the Passport office
10-year-old Rohit is an open learner. His passport was to be renewed. He was very nervous on the day of the appointment because he thought he would miss his cricket coaching. Finally, he and his father started for the passport office. He called his mom after an hour to convey that they were on their…
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Why should teens experience event management as part of their learning?
Last term Aarohi hosted 2 events .Learning Utsav and Open Learning offline meet up. Both these events were led by a team of teenagers/ children below 18 yrs at campus with the guidance of facilitators. The whole experience of organizing an event along with its nifty gritties of understanding the requirements, planning, execution and hosting…
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Story-time with child – My MBA Branding and Packaging class revisited.
My son and I love stories. We are fond of creating our own stories and taking them in the direction of our imagination the way we want. In one such story, a mouse sets up a factory. Her products are ready to be sold. She got stuck because she needed to decide what the name…
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How does my child manage my learning inability?
Our Open Learning journey is full of fun, surprises, and challenges. My biggest challenge as a parent is dealing with my internal conflict. It is like walking on a forked path always. One path leads to the safe environment of the “known” and family/friends. Another path is traversing a beautiful “unknown”. My mood for the…
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How to observe your child instead of judging? (with examples)
Observation vs Judgements vs Conclusions – what’s your lens? Currently, Aarohi Community is on a break after completing term 1. A big chunk of the break time is spent in each family reviewing their open learning journey during the last term.For the review, the parents as well as the child rate their own journey and…
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Environment – Shapes a Child’s learning
Our interaction with our environment shapes us as a person and our learning abilities. We have the power to build an environment which facilitates growth and nurturing. Read further to know about what creates such stimulating environment.
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Nudge – A subtle tool for parents pursuing Open Learning
How gentle cues of our environment shape our behavior. We know them as Nudges. Let’s explore can we use Nudges to enhance open learning.
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Reflecting on Daily Investments – for parents and children
Do we need to reflect only in terms of our success or failures. Can we use reflective practice just to bring self-awareness and being more observant of ourselves. How about getting deeper insight of our day? Self-reflection opens up new windows to provide a better view of ourselves.
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Emotions and Children – Here’s what an 8 year old taught us
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded – Jess Lair We, as adults, often view children with certain preconceived notions, assuming they need to be instructed in most of the areas, including Emotions. This might be because most of the adults today aren’t aware of their own emotions. Our…
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Exploring Empowerment in the Parenting Journey
At Aarohi, parents meet weekly to discuss certain topics related to parenting. One of the weeks the topic was Empowerment. The agenda was to discuss Empowerment in the space of Parenting. The discussion started off with these questions Then the discussion moved on to how to Empower our children? After the session, one of the…
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How can children learn about reflection through investments?
Reflections play a vital role in the lives of Aarohi community members of all ages.Every week, we come together to share and reflect on the week that is coming to an end. One such week the topic on which we were reflecting was the amount of investment we did on different activities in the week…