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How to boost a child’s learning potential?

  With advanced technology, your child gets access to thousands of bits of information. Parents play an important role in boosting a child’s learning potential, building a child’s confidence, character and ensuring their mental and physical well-being. Children need proper guidance, attention, care and it is the responsibility of the parent to analyse and support the learning potential of their child. Nowadays many methods can be adopted to help your child achieve their academic potential. Following are a few ways that help to boost your child learning potential. ·          Reading Habits One of the most important factors that boost the child learning potential and academic achievement is to help them develop reading habits. Parents should read to them and with them to establish a routine of reading to your child at an early age. ·          Realistic Expectations Expectations and goals play a ...

5 Things to consider before selecting the right school for your kid

  ‘Which is the best school for my kid?’, ‘ top schools online India’ are these a part of your search history? These are basic questions every parent faces with and if you too are a parent looking for an answer to these questions like many others, then you’re at the right place. Choosing the right school is definitely not a piece of cake but it is very important and as a parent, you want to ensure that your child gets the best in everything, even the school, and its facilities. It is one of the most important decisions a parent takes for their child as it also results in the path they take and the values they imbibe, also part of their success depends on the type of schooling they received.  Let’s get started and find out the answer to one of the most asked questions.  Here are the things to keep in mind and ask before you select the school that’s perfect for your child.  1. Facilities Academics is the prime aspect but as a parent, you must also focus on developing ...

How should children maintain their mental health?

Mental health in all about how an individual thinks, behave and feel.   It is referred to as emotional, psychological, social, and cognitive well- being. Mental health is an ability that determines how we handle stress and choose between possibilities. Mental health and well-being are essential at all stages of life, starting from childhood and teenage through adulthood. Major reasons that may lead to mental illness include bad sleeping habits, inadequate sleep, stress, excessive use of electronic items like mobile phones, TV, laptops, and video games before bedtime, social isolation, trauma, and head injuries. Mental illness has following warning signals, these include; ·          Anxiety ·          Depression or Long-lasting sadness ·          Mood Swings ·          Social Withdrawal ·       ...

Children should learn about Gender Equality

Gender equality means fair treatment to all the gender according to their respective needs that mean Male, Female, or Transgender. Equal treatment is considered equivalent in terms of benefits, rights, opportunities, and obligations. Gender equality is a human right, therefore, all genders have equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities. Gender equality is essential for economic prosperity, a safer and healthier society. Children should be aware of gender bias, by educating children about gender equality, it will help them respond to intolerance in the real world. Research reveals that gender awareness should be provided at an early age that will help children explore and respond accordingly. It also helps gain self-confidence, peer acceptance, social support, and well-being. Gender roles in society state how a specify gender is expected to behave, act, dress, speak, groom, make decisions according to assigned sex. Studies have also revealed that if inequality in gender is reduce...

Co-curricular activities and learning go hand-in-hand

  Co-curricular activities play an important role in an individual life especially students. It helps to enhance the learning process, stimulates creative thought, and builds personality, social, moral, and intellectual skills in students. These activities complement regular curriculum activities. Co-curricular activities include activities like reading newspaper, musical performances, dancing, singing, art shows, plays, participation in sports events, learning foreign languages, debates, participating in the quiz, robotics, engineering teams, and contests. Nowadays pressure of academic excellence has made children lose interest in hobbies and other co-curricular activities. The entire focus of a child is primarily on scoring high grades to secure a child’s future professionally. Parents and educators are not encouraging the child to pursue their passions. Co-curricular activities are equally important that blossoms a child personality and inculcate real-world skills in them. R...

Road safety awareness for kids

Kids get distracted easily, they should be taught about the rules to stay safe on roads. Kids are inattentive and usually leave their guardian’s hand to run or sprint away.  Parents should teach their children to stay calm and attentive while walking on the road. It is difficult to keep your kid safe all time as you cannot be with them always. Unlike adults, kids are aware of the consequences as they are not mature enough to know what should be done and whatnot, when walking on the roads. Without proper guidance, knowledge, and supervision of road safety rules, kids can put themselves into trouble. Parents should not compromise with the safety of their kids.  Statistics state that approx. 3-5% of people who die due to road accidents are kids. Kids should be taught about road safety rules as soon as they are young enough to step out of the house. Parents should ensure that their kid is practising the rules properly. Road safety awareness should be provided so that the kid is aw...