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Developing children as Good Citizen

Dear Parents Upbringing of children is very challenging task. It is not based on instructions. Parents and elders have a very big role in this journey. Parents need to demonstrate right behavior to the children.  A very simple things such as getting water for drinking on their own and not asking to be served. Elders need to demonstrate to child that they also take the water on their own and not demand/ask. The child observes this behavior and works as per this.  When the child grows up you will notice that child does his work on his own. A simple habit of wrapping bed sheet from one's bed every morning is important, this develops self discipline. All the family members if do the work at home on their own in front of child, child learns this as a standard practice and does this work routinely. No special efforts are needed but elders, parents need to demonstrate the actions which they want the child to develop. Do not expect perfection in work as outcome but concentrate on...
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Online schooling during COVID 19 pandemic for preschool children, is it correct?

Impact of Covid 19 infection is seen everywhere. Everything is under lock down. Social distancing and hand hygiene is the common mantra for making oneself safe from the infection. Schools, coaching classes, colleges are all closed. When they will open , how these will be run is all a big question and how to handle? Lock down started from March 2020 and now in June slowly some establishments have opened and society has started slowly to come back to normal. Now the monsoon season is round the corner and chances of viral infection, cold, cough is very high for the young children of age group 2 to 6 years. With all the infection threat around, is it right to have physical schooling in operation. Safety of children is very important. I am of view that for the year 2020-2021 preschool should be operated online rather than physical school. It is not possible to keep social distancing among children as they will keep on moving and playing. Having said that online schooling is the...

Can Competition be encouraged in preschool years

Dear Parents In today's education system, we have been brought up in a particular way of education system. Our education system revolves around numbers. What numbers we have scored is important and not how much we have understood the subject and how much we like the subject. Importance is given to practice and repetition. Understanding and liking is not important. Parents of young children start thinking of what will happen with their child after he/she grows up in adulthood. Child to become Engineer, Doctor, CA, IT Professional is considered as really great. The life of comfort and richness is secured. With this desire the conditioning of child starts. Parents are not ready to wait but they want child to be number one in everything that can be shown to society. Child receives accolades, trophy congratulations on stage and so many........ The preparation starts from very young age as early as 2 years. Child has to learn everything fast so the practice, repetition many ...

Preschool - Experiential Learning best way to Learn

Dear Parents Little Saplings Preschool at Ravet operates the school based on guiding principle of Dr Maria Montessori and technical know how from Kreedology Bangalore.  Let us understand what is Experiential learning and normal preschool. Children of the age group 2 to 6 years are constantly trying to learn the surrounding environment, socializing with people but all this is happening on their own terms and their own comfort. We as grown ups need to guide them and not go on teaching them  The above photo shows how a preschool should be planned. You can see the study material racks, the height of which is fully comfortable for the child. The child can pick up the material which he/she likes.  We encourage child to take the material from the rack and take to their place of working. This helps the child to develop balancing skills, hand eye coordination. We guide the child to take on their won the seating mat. Unroll and roll back after the activity is c...

Lock down due to covid 19 - Handling Children of Preschool age group

Dear Parents We all are going through a very challenging time of lock down due to scare of Corona virus. Social distancing and hand hygiene is prime importance. Frequent washing of hands with soap is very crucial. Demonstrate this to children and request the child to repeat washing of hands frequently with soap. Please do this and it is very important. We will win over this Corona with combined efforts of all our citizens. With every passing day the environment is becoming very challenging. With children of preschool age it is further challenging. Children at this age are full with energy and are always in action. This energy need to be channelized skillfully by the grown up, adults and parents around. Following actions can be taken by parents: Keep engaged with children Introduce them to new things, games and keep playing with them. If you play with children they will be diverted from electronic gadgets. The playful activity with children helps them develop many lif...

Can we teach Preschooler

Dear Parents Early Child hood education is extremely important period in once life span. We all have learned our schooling with the means that some one is teaching us. Teacher comes narrates the things to be taught and asks the students to repeat what has been taught. Human beings perform excellent when they do acts/ actions as per their choice, liking and pace. Forced or instructed actions are not liked by human beings. Elders working in offices have frequently come across this feeling that senior has told and hence we have to and do not have a choice. The belief / feeling that this action is mine and self, society benefit from my action is not developed. This feeling is at stage when we are grown up. What must be happening with the children of age group 2 to 6 years? They are on the mission of experimenting the entire surrounding around them with their senses, trying to get familiar with concepts, checking happening of this, enumerable activities they do. This is developme...

Preschool for Best Upbringing

The life style of the society has changed phenomenally in India. The social fabric is changed. Earlier days we used to have a family of structure, wherein all the elders used to be staying in one big family The children used to learn by observing elders, siblings, neighbor. All the skills required as such gross motor skill, fine motor skill, cognitive skill, socializing, language skills used to get developed without much input from the parents. The changed life style is such that this very foundation of the great family is gone. Now the parents are staying in various  cities away from the big family staying together. The family structure is now changed to mother, father and child. Both parents are working and hence child is left to day care home OR with the home maid. Children learn by observation and not by teaching. With parents, siblings, neighbors not be available for observation and learning children slowly get attracted to other means of learning i.e. Television, mobile...