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If I am hardworking, I may feel that my child is getting exposed to being hardworking. I may also expect unknowingly that not my child is exposed to “hard work”, my child too will imbibe this value of being hardworking. But I miss to see is that my child is also seeing the other side…

TALENT – one word, one image, one perspectiveUsed QUESTIONING as a collecting experience in the community to just share QUESTIONS coming in mind with the concept of Talent. here is this what we harvest How many years of practice is required to become talented in any particular field? What to do if your talent and…

We all do reflect for many reasons and in some ways. What all are our reasons What all can be additional benefits How do we usually do reflection How else can we do it / other interesting ways? We invited learners to participate in pondering “why, how and how else we can do reflection”And together…

My little son, who is no more little, said last week in the family reflection space “I am 16yr old and I want to share my plans” I want to “go for becoming a student-athlete in the USA” and these are my reasons and this is my research and this is my findings and this….…

Last two weeks we have been working on revised planning for Dhrupad with his revised needs. And we could not do it in a day – every day he spends some time bringing a thread together. Some of the things which brought these changes are His Bangalore training started – so travel needs it space…

Learning happens in three stages, Broadly the learning cycle is: I DECIDE – The child decides what to do/learn 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…

When one thinks about interest/passion/ future/career…We can explore many points of view, and maybe share/ talk/discuss/explore many different points of view with our kids… it’s not about the destination alone, it’s also about the journey. It’s not only about singing, but it can also about the music,It’s also not only about music, it’s also about…

From a parent’s diary Children are CAPABLE A small change in my approach:Usually when sessions are there after lunch, I keep reminding Advay about them and ask him to quickly finish whatever he is doing (most of the times, it is lunch). After number of reminders, I get irritated of the fact that how many…

Often we set larger goals like becoming a pilot or an artist or even short-term goals like make a painting or bake a cake.And often this doing is result-oriented.And then Either my painting is good or bad, my cake is nice or horrible.But there is something else happening apart from the end results.DOING and this…

When people come and ask us “do you grow all your vegetable here in the land”, we say no, the land is rocky and taking to rejuvenateToday I realized that even then with consistent efforts of the last three years how RICH have we become Although we are not able to harvest vegetables for the…

My story of music learning II grew up listening to music with no ambition to sing. In college, I saw a few of my peers singing on the stage, and ambition of singing grew but I left the idea of thinking “this is too late to start to learn singing”. stopped me from taking any…

CHIDLREN Are CAPABLE To Dream, To Think, To Decide, To Do, To Fail, To Achieve, To Assess, To Learn, To Enjoy, To Live.Even if for a moment you think the child is not capable, would you not like the child to be capable? And if we want them to become capable, then we need to…

In the last two years of growing up these boys only with football, we have met many people in the field, talking only about one thing “sports”, got respect from people who gave them inputs on food, exercise, yoga, breathing, fitness, food….and every stage sked these boys “do you want to go ahead with it?”…

When i walk slowly, I see more. When i eat slowly, I relish more. When I swing slowly, I sing more. When I read slowly, I imagine more. When I do slowly, I think more. When I achieve it slowly, I enjoy it more. When I learn slowly, I learn more. Poorvais learning slowly. She…

ASHA, SUNITHA, and SMRITI Meet 3-Generation together to know their journey of learning. More and more parents are choosing or thinking of choosing unschooling or homeschooling or open learning or free learning for their children. It is not just dissatisfaction from conventional schooling, but also the immense options and satisfaction one can get when one…

Community learning is all about connections, collaborations, and contributions. And that is what we experience in Aarohi-X. X stands for extending the concept of open learning to home – with all the benefits of being part of a community – connections, collaborations, processes and support Its joyous when we all learn and grow together. It…

Things reached an aggressive hilt when I fought with mini-mes at home: my children. I imagine you (the reader) sitting between us as we speak. Hear me out first. “I feel I am not respected by my children. Their tone of voice, the contempt, the body language, the eye roll… they have to apologise to…

August monthArham and I discussed festival, what do we do, how do we do, I shared options of what kind of constraints would you like to follow, etc, he chooses and made a list of it together on the book. He followed constraints choose by him. He expressed that he did not follow it today.…

the story behind creating the song When mum goes pup… (part 1 of 2) I’ve become quite a sniffer pup of sorts after my recent Aarohi-x “activations.”(I explain activations in my next post)Like a sniffer pup, i go hunting for ‘bones’/ expressions of creativity in my family. When I catch a whiff of a bone,…

Swati, Jagriti 52 batch sharing We had begun the process of stopping the breastfeed in the middle of the night when she would wake up. This wasn’t easy as she had been used to it from when she was a baby. But learning from a friend who had navigated through this phase by talking to…

Smriti and I played a game. We designed a drawing game. One person gets a chance to draw, she can draw in a way that the pencil is touching the page. Once she lifts her hand then it’s my turn. We had not decided what we will draw or what will be the output.We enjoyed…

It’s not just paper folding – there is a complete education system within this one passion this 12yr child has at this moment. Some may like to discard it as just a hobby, a waste of time, just play – but this 12 yrs old is creating his education around this one passion he has.…

DEEP DIVE began with “Deep Learning happens when?”Sharing –Curiosity, the transition from basic to the next level, understand what I am doing, develop, involvement, give 100% Role of PHYSICAL aspects – environment, body, etcSharing –Resources, silence, non-interrupted time, active body, Role of MENTAL aspects – beliefs, opinion, HOME, etcSharing –the attitude of learning, able to…

Sandhya shared “Our journey started when we thought 9-year-old Pranavswaroop needed to spend more time on his music. He was doing quite well at academics. However, we felt that his music was just an extracurricular and he wouldn’t be able to explore more. We thought we would handle the academics at home. Along the way,…

The claim of knowing: part 1 At a recent SWA session, I was asked to share one observation about my child. Just like everyone else, I said”my child loves xyz and spends a lot of time doing that.”That was too easy. Can we move on to a deeper level of observation, please? Observing is not…

Power of community: Never lets youslack I joined Aarohi-x looking for an outlet, a hobby, a diversion from the bleak news around. I didn’t expect much; as long as there are people and voices that I can hear beyond my four walls, that would do. It’s been a month now. And I’ve heard more than…

I was busy on my phone and my 3.7 yr old boy made a “dinosaur” on my pants dipping his fingers in my black tea. I was so lost in my phone I dint even know! There were so many things I had to be mad about this. 1. He put fingers in a very…

Every child is unique, so it could be his/her education.Every Child is a leader, so he/she could lead their own learning.Every child is capable, so he/she could live an empowered life. Simi, mother of Sahil sharing “As parents we always knew that our child, Sahil as a well mannered, very loving and a talented kid…

Parenting or teaching is NOT about some tricks or techniques or strategies it is about deeply understanding the child and his or her learning and development it is about providing a relationship that would enable the child to blossom into the unique human that he or she is It is not about a child’s future,…

Is there any learning in these experiences? Child experiencing (and cribbing about) hot weather Child experiencing achievement in baking cookies Child experiencing shyness in interacting with guests Child experiencing fun in jumping on the sofa Child experiencing anxiety in sharing his/her toys The mother had encouraged him, goaded him, wished, and prayed for him. He…