Aarohi Life Education

Tag: Unparenting

  • DAD’s role in Unschooling, Home Schooling and even schooling

    A lot of mothers frequently ask this question: What is the father’s role in unschooling and homeschooling? Hi, I am Ratnesh from Aarohi Life Education. I am also a father of two children who have grown up without any school or college degrees, and are now successful adults and professionals. To answer this question, let…

  • Magic of Co-Creation: Shifting from Control to Partnership in Home Schooling UnSchooling

    Often, when families choose homeschooling or unschooling as an educational path for their children, a common shift happens: somehow, everything is taken entirely into the parents’ hands. But true education is not about taking all the control into our hands. It is about co-creating with the child. In this whole journey, the child is an…

  • Tied-Up Parent – OR – Unlimited Parent?

    So, imagine that you tie yourself up to a chair. Yeah, nicely tie yourself up to a chair. What will happen? Now, once you are tied up to your chair, obviously you can’t move anywhere. In fact, go ahead and do this. Tie yourself up and see what happens. But you see, if you imagine,…

  • The Democratic Home: When my son became the government

    The Democratic Home: When my son became the government

    Like every household, our home has its focal points of argument. Sometimes it’s about chores, sometimes it’s about who will clean the spilled water, and very often it’s the classic: “Where is my ball? I kept it right here!” While discussing democracy and government with my son recently, I threw out a casual suggestion: “Why…

  • Through Their Eyes: A Journey into Our Children’s World

    Through Their Eyes: A Journey into Our Children’s World

    Ever wondered what the world looks like through your Child’s eyes? At Aarohi DEEP, we recently conducted our Parent Circle with two “child consultants,” Neil and Prathati. Honestly, it was a reality check. It felt like a “slap” of realization that made us rethink our parenting perspective. If you are feeling the weight of being…

  • The Vocabulary of Visual Silence

    The Vocabulary of Visual Silence

    Every morning when I hear bird chirping in my balcony, instead of relishing the sound, my eyes invariably search for the bird on trees creating this melody. Unknowingly, in a fraction of a second my attention deviates from the sound to what all I see. That is the addiction of seeing – we want to…

  • A letter to Boredom

    A letter to Boredom

    We are so afraid of the silence in our children’s lives that we drown it out with noise. I fought Boredom, I snubbed it, and I hid from it. But when I finally stepped back, Boredom did something I never could: it gave my child a canvas

  • Parental Fears

    Parental Fears

    Parental fears are something you’ll overhear in any conversation among parents-whether it’s about careers, competition, or just keeping kids safe, parental fears are always working in the background. The other day, my son casually listed out some fears: arachnophobia (spiders), astraphobia (thunder and lightning), and phonophobia (loud sounds). “I can manage the rest,” he said,…

  • How does my child manage my learning inability?

    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…

  • How to observe your child instead of judging? (with examples)

    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…

  • Nudge – A subtle tool for parents pursuing Open Learning

    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.

  • Conquering Fears : “A Journey Through Rock Climbing”

    Conquering Fears : “A Journey Through Rock Climbing”

    We embarked on a thrilling journey through the rugged & raw landscapes as we explored outdoor rock climbing. We also explored the sheer joy of scaling heights, the natural beauty of nature, and the rawness that only outdoor can offer. ~ We planned in detail about having a safe & enjoyable experience for all.~ We…

  • Children can be great mentors, this is what Learning Mela taught us

    Children can be great mentors, this is what Learning Mela taught us

    What happens when children mentor adults? Here’s the story….. It all started with a Santa seeding the idea of Learning Mela, 18+ year olds (adults) of the community would conduct the workshops and 18- year olds (young ones) would be the mentors to adults. All parents, teens and tweens of the community got together for…

  • UnParenting lessons from SURFing

    We recently went to a place near Mangalore to learn surfing on waves – children and us few adults. Here are some interesting Unparenting reflections.

  • Confidence, Confidence, No Papa – ebook

    Confidence, Confidence, No Papa – ebook

    Confidence is a myth. None of us need to bother ourselves or our children with this concept. You see the more we value this concept the more we devalue all the children (and people) who are seen or see themselves as not confident. Hence we’ve written in detail about confidence, in this small book primarily…

  • Homeschooling journey – by Sharmila

    Being part of a journey is more important than destination. If journey is joyous and satisfactory with all its ups and down , the destination may not be very different from it.

  • Teach your child how to Lie

    Do children Lie or they justify at that moment? If there is nobody to Lie to or no reason to Lie to – Where will be the need to Lie?

  • Bad Company

    Universe gives us an opportunity to understand life by exposing us to the company of “The good, The bad and The Ugly”. Let’s take the bulls of Bad and Ugly by horns.

  • Do you want child to be successful?

    How do we define Success? When do we feel that we are successful in life? How do we reach to that milestone of success? What do we do once we achieve that success?

  • Best way to teach

    Is there any one best way to live life? If no then can there be one best way to teach. Children are dynamic and they need dynamic facilitation. Breadth of facilitation will provide depth to understand a child.

  • See no evil, hear no evil and say no evil

    Parents believe see-hear-say no evil” is best but child does see-hear-say evil. May be better option would be “think no evil”. Help child to decide what is good and evil and develop his own inside shield.

  • Fear – Hug it, Kiss it!

    Emotions are neither good nor bad. They are not limiting rather they signal our inner state. How about embracing fear with an understanding.

  • Soiled by Adjectives

    A verb implies action thus adds to the experience of a doer. An adjective implies perception. it may or may not be right. Create a limitless living of experience or create a prison of adjectives – Decide.

  • Kids follow parents?

    Parents are not the only influencers in child’s life. They are a part of child’s surroundings. Shall we pay attention to “Will child follow me” or shall we facilitate an environment of exploration.

  • Missed the Flight? Catch the Train

    Fly off the handle – so what? Let’s hop on to the train of reflection from the station of guilt. This slow journey will give ample time to shave better understanding of self.

  • Fundamental of Disciplining – Respect

    Hierarchies create a social divide. Families are no different. Treat children at par. See them as fellow human being and interact with them with same respect as you would to any other adult and experience the magic.

  • How do I Get My Child to Comply?

    Is it sometimes difficult getting your child to do what you want him or her to do? Do you often get exasperated over compliance? Did you wish you had some magic wand to get your child to follow you? Here is a piece of insight.

  • The Myth of (bad) Habits

    Each habit serve some purpose. Good or bad habits are relative perceptions. More often parents and children lock horn on habits because of this relative perception. Let’s question some of our beliefs around bad habit and burst the myth around bad habits.

  • Thumb Sucking or Resourcefulness

    Some of the habits (in the form of physical actions) serves the purpose of anchoring. These actions help us to calm down in troubled waters. Children are no different. Thumb sucking is one such habit.

  • Myth of the misbehaved child

    Are the behavior and character same? Does a misbehave make me a bad person? All of us are work in progress so why to bother child for their misbehavior. Rather give them the gift of understanding and help them to flourish.