Overview/ Descriptor of self-awareness Self-Awareness is a thinking skill in which a child is able to accurately recognize own feelings and behaviour and is able to judge own performance. Self awareness goes beyond the ability to just recognize our feelings. It also involves realising that, those feelings lead to actions which may in turn lead […]
“What will I be?” – Talking to your child about their future
Recently, I was speaking to my senior from college on the phone who has an 11 year old daughter. As we were chatting, the daughter (let us call her Arya) finished her online tuition classes. My senior took a break from our conversation, asked Arya to have her snacks and then sit down to complete […]
Life Skills Training: A sequential approach
It all began in 2016, when I was leading a needs assessment study for children in need of care and protection currently living in Institutions. The idea behind the needs assessment was to launch a Program catering to Emotional Health and Life skills needs of the children in need of care and protection living in […]
How to motivate children?
I have worked as an educator and education program management professional for the past 15 years and one of the most common questions that I have seen haunt all educators from time to time is on days when nothing goes well in a class. The children we are teaching seem disinterested, bored and totally disengaged […]