Jagriti 53rd Batch

Hi You might be wondering , we 've have talked about beliefs, feelings, images, motivation, empowering, etc  - when will we discuss the  child's behaviour? When can I get to set the child's behaviour right? 🤐 Well ... we will do that and the child will behave exactly as you want - pretty soon ! I am actually working on creating a child fixing machine . 😝 But till the time it gets working, let ' s work on one machine which is in our control - ME 😍 Let us understand OUR behaviour and what we can do to our behaviour so that it helps me and the child and everybody! You see, It has to begin with me . Session # 11 - Behaving so children Behave 1. Without reading ahead first watch th is video . (Pl do not share this video with anybody else outside the jagriti group) Once you have watched the video - first become aware of thoughts that came to your mind when you were watching the video. Also, there are two adults in the situation (their gender is immaterial) with diffe...

"I am not your Dream Girl" - screamed a teenager's t-shirt. I initially laughed it off as another smart t-shirt message. But somehow the line lingered on in my mind and it slowly emerged to me: what if every child wore this t-shirt for their parents: "I am not your dream child" And what if every parent took to it seriously? At one level it is about  what one wants to become , in terms of professional, education choices, career choices, and so on. While I do see a lot of parents open to children looking for different or non conventional careers, we as parents possibly still need to mature for some of the other more radical choices. One of them being the definition of success. What if the child decides not be successful in the conventional terms, to live a simple life of an ascetic? Why are we bent on success rather than enjoying what we do? Do we not build the stress for our children and then rue? the same stress. Don't many of us crib about the rat race and ...

Awareness is awesome . If I can be aware of all my thoughts and feelings at any  moment, I can superbly choose my responses. But many times my habits of mind kick in and I end up reacting . To make matters worse, I later feel guilty about it. But think of it, just because I have missed the flight, I can take the slower train to reach the same destination.  Reflection is resourceful . On c e I settle in my train, I have all the time to reflect! Which is why I like guilt or regret - it gives me time to understand myself, to acknowledge the child, and to explore the many dimensions of any habits of mind.  I prefer not berating myself over what I did. The flight has flown. I can now chug along with my child. We can pause at all stations of importance, enjoy what each feeling was signaling , hobnob with our co-passengers and  consider if we need to repack / upgrade our operating system. Interestingly there are many trains to reflection, catch any, all are equally insightful: You can...

Session #10 - Potential There is a cricket proverb which says, " Your Batting's potential is till the 10th Wicket ". Well we have reached the 1 0th session. Time to review potential 1. You see, we all want our child to reach his or her fullest potential - do you? Have you thought about your potential? Have you reached your maximum potential? If yes, How, when, where? What was required to reach it? If not, are you planning to ... I don't mean to be sarcastic here - just inviting you to get whimsical about this whole concept of potential. Jot down your thoughts, start a conversation with your neighbour or with your child or in any online group. 2. Today, as you go around interacting with your child, keep asking this question to yourself - What do I want? If you want, as a reminder put it around your neck or pin it on your dress. 3. Today, think about your  child's future.  Does the window you're looking out from is tainted with fear or anxiety. Or does the...

After today's open session, I felt we need to give a small gift (to ourselves): I don't need to be in love with myself. I don't need to hate myself. But somewhere I need to be KIND to myself. To me one of the most important Habits of MInd is KINDNESS People usually talk about kindness to others - which is important; And more important is to be kind to myself . We end up being unkind to ourselves in many ways. When we don't do, we say, "I lack motivation ". Maybe we are just being self. When we lose our cool, we say, "I am impatient ". Maybe we are just being self. When we feel shy or guilty - Maybe, we are not shy or guilty, we are just being self. When we do something smart , we say, "I am so intelligent . Maybe, we are just being self. All above adjectives are just words - at all times we are just ourselves . And we would do a great favour to self by being KIND to self We can forgive ourselves when we mess up. We can accept ourselves when we...

One amazing way to live through all the intelligences is to explore each individual intelligence - deeply, widely, exponentially. There is so much to discover about each intelligence, so much to enjoy, so much to live. For starters, c heck these articles written by us : My 'SELF' Intelligence   |  Tag:  Self Intelligence Word Magic   |  Tag:  Word Intelligence Move it to learn it   |  Tag:  Body Intelligence Learning dhik chik dha  |  Tag:  Music Intelligence We the people   |  Tag:  People Intelligence Story of X and Y - Math Logic in classroom   |  Tag:  Math-Logic Intelligence Its not what you look at - but what you see   |  Tag:  Visual Intelligence A bird, A Tree and A Squirrel   |  Tag:  Nature Intelligence Green Environment, Nature and Education   |  Tag:  Nature Intelligence warmly Aditi- Ratnesh  (Ph:  +91-98450-45833 ) Aarohi Website  |   Aarohi on FB Aarohi is  a community of self directed learners -   Children who decide what they want to learn, how they want to lea...

I'm not intelligent.  'Intelligent' is an image. I need not label myself or anybody as intelligent. I only USE my intelligences.  I use all eight of them . Sometimes I use visual intelligence. Sometimes I use body intelligence. Etc. Sometimes I give rest to my intelligence s and just be . Sometimes I enjoy a situation or activity or task or learning by using one intelligence. Sometimes I enjoy the same by using another intelligence. Sometimes I mix many. I need not be confined to a certain kind of intelligence - cause I live out of all of my intelligences.    # end warmly Aditi - Ratnesh  (Ph: +91-98450-45833) Aarohi is an Open Learning Community for learners of all ages: Open to all kinds of interests, abilities, styles and content areas. Learning by doing what one wants, how one wants, and self reflection. Community to co-live, co-learn and co-support each other. Aarohi's Campus is in a village near Hosur in Tamil Nadu (55km fm Bangalore). Open learning group on Tel...

Session #9 - Multiple Intelligences 1. Google for Multiple Intelligence and read about it or see some videos about it. Please familiarise yourself with the 8 intelligences. 2. See this funny small advertisement video and then do the following activities (in any order). 3 Imagine you have to wake up your child every day in the morning. Think of eight different ways of waking up the child - one using each intelligence.

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. As he was putting the sign 'Puppies for sale', he felt a tug and looked down into the eyes of a little boy. "I want to buy one of your puppies. ", said the boy. "Sure," said the farmer, and with that he let out a whistle. Out from the doghouse ran the mother followed by four little puppies. The little boy's eyes danced with delight. As these puppies made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed another little one appear, this one noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner this little pup began hobbling towards the others, doing its best to catch up.... "I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt. The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would."With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and beg...

Hi, Since Habits of Mind is a kind of new topic for all, there are many questions in people's mind. We have prepared brief FAQs here. We're sure you have more questions. Go ahead and ask them. Q1: Schools are not only taking care of academics, these HOMs are taken care of naturally. Why do we need to focus on them? A: Children are born with all the habits of mind: confidence, independence etc. As they start growing up they hear us say that 'you can't do this/that' etc and they are affected by it. It is interesting to understand that there are no opposites of subjects which children learn at school say for eg: maths/English, but there are opposites for responsible-irresponsible, confident-not confident etc. HOM is based on experiences and now we have to check and see if the experiences the child is getting is helping him to develop these or not and what else or what can we do to facilitate the development of these HOM's. Q2: If confidence and responsibility is a...