It is very true. For a child he knows only what is fed. Till he gets all kinds of feedings enter he has no choice but to see God.
Only after growing, one needs an SSY or a regular AMC to experience the same.
We need to create immune systems that can keep the child in touch with his innocent divinity.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
So Easy to see God !!!!
An evening i just heard a flute seller play a nice tune on it..children ran out to see and saw a boy playing the tune...while we were looking at eachother thinking how nice it was to hear ....my 3 yr old dhruv says you know he is lord krishna playing the flute...he got the flute from shopkeeper and playing it for all going everywhere , to everyone....!!! i was just enjoying his innocent yet divine thinking ...how easy it is for them to see god in all....in you , in me and all!!!
Friday, December 4, 2009
Non-violent Parenting !!!!
Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of
the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-violence, in his June 9 lecture at the
University of Puerto Rico , shared the following story as an example of
"non-violence in parenting":
"I was 16 years old and living with my
parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of
Durban , South Africa , in the middle of the sugar plantations. We were deep in the
country and had no neighbors, so my two
sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends
or go to the movies.
One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an
all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town,
my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in
town, my father asked me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting
the car serviced. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, ' I will
meet you here at 5:00p.m., and we will go home
together.After hurriedly completing my chores, I went
straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered.
By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my
father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00.
He anxiously asked me, ' Why were you late? ' I was so ashamed of telling him
I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, ' The car wasn ' t ready,
so I had to wait, ' not realizing that he had already called the garage. When
he caught me in the lie, he said: ' There ' s something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth. In order to figure outwhere I went wrong with you, I ' m going to walk home 18 miles and think about it.
So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the
dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads. I couldn ' t leave him, so for
five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go
through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered.I decided then and there that I was never going
tolie again.I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had
punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learnt a
lesson at all. I don ' t think so. I would have suffered t he punishment and gone
on doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so powerful
that it is still there in my mind as if it happened yesterday. That is the power
of non-violence.
the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-violence, in his June 9 lecture at the
University of Puerto Rico , shared the following story as an example of
"non-violence in parenting":
"I was 16 years old and living with my
parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of
Durban , South Africa , in the middle of the sugar plantations. We were deep in the
country and had no neighbors, so my two
sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends
or go to the movies.
One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an
all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town,
my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in
town, my father asked me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting
the car serviced. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, ' I will
meet you here at 5:00p.m., and we will go home
together.After hurriedly completing my chores, I went
straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered.
By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my
father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00.
He anxiously asked me, ' Why were you late? ' I was so ashamed of telling him
I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, ' The car wasn ' t ready,
so I had to wait, ' not realizing that he had already called the garage. When
he caught me in the lie, he said: ' There ' s something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth. In order to figure outwhere I went wrong with you, I ' m going to walk home 18 miles and think about it.
So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the
dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads. I couldn ' t leave him, so for
five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go
through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered.I decided then and there that I was never going
tolie again.I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had
punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learnt a
lesson at all. I don ' t think so. I would have suffered t he punishment and gone
on doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so powerful
that it is still there in my mind as if it happened yesterday. That is the power
of non-violence.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Think about it ....!!!!
Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something decisive to
> meet the increasing complexity of their society. They held a meeting and
> finally decided to organize a school.
>
> The curriculum consisted of running, climbing, swimming and flying. Since
> these were the basic behaviors of most animals, they decided that all the
> students should take all the subjects.
>
> The duck proved to be excellent at swimming, better in fact, than his
> teacher. He also did well in flying. But he proved to be very poor in
> running. Since he was poor in this subject, he was made to stay after school
> to practice it and even had to drop swimming in order to get more time in
> which to practice running. He was kept at this poorest subject until his
> webbed feet were so badly damaged that he became only average at swimming.
> But average was acceptable in the school, so nobody worried about that –
> except the duck.
>
> The rabbit started at the top of her class in running, but finally had a
> nervous breakdown because of so much make-up time in swimming – a subject
> she hated.
>
> The squirrel was excellent at climbing until he developed a psychological
> block in flying class, when the teacher insisted he start from the ground
> instead of from the tops of trees. He was kept at attempting to fly until he
> became muscle-bound – and received a C in climbing and a D in running.
>
> The eagle was the school’s worst discipline problem; in climbing class, she
> beat all of the others to the top of the tree used for examination purposes
> in this subject, but she insisted on using her own method of getting there.
>
> The gophers, of course, stayed out of school and fought the tax levied for
> education because digging was not included in the curriculum. They
> apprenticed their children to the badger and later joined the groundhogs and
> eventually started a private school offering alternative education.
>
>
>
> meet the increasing complexity of their society. They held a meeting and
> finally decided to organize a school.
>
> The curriculum consisted of running, climbing, swimming and flying. Since
> these were the basic behaviors of most animals, they decided that all the
> students should take all the subjects.
>
> The duck proved to be excellent at swimming, better in fact, than his
> teacher. He also did well in flying. But he proved to be very poor in
> running. Since he was poor in this subject, he was made to stay after school
> to practice it and even had to drop swimming in order to get more time in
> which to practice running. He was kept at this poorest subject until his
> webbed feet were so badly damaged that he became only average at swimming.
> But average was acceptable in the school, so nobody worried about that –
> except the duck.
>
> The rabbit started at the top of her class in running, but finally had a
> nervous breakdown because of so much make-up time in swimming – a subject
> she hated.
>
> The squirrel was excellent at climbing until he developed a psychological
> block in flying class, when the teacher insisted he start from the ground
> instead of from the tops of trees. He was kept at attempting to fly until he
> became muscle-bound – and received a C in climbing and a D in running.
>
> The eagle was the school’s worst discipline problem; in climbing class, she
> beat all of the others to the top of the tree used for examination purposes
> in this subject, but she insisted on using her own method of getting there.
>
> The gophers, of course, stayed out of school and fought the tax levied for
> education because digging was not included in the curriculum. They
> apprenticed their children to the badger and later joined the groundhogs and
> eventually started a private school offering alternative education.
>
>
>
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Abhi crawling !!!
Hi all ,
wonderful parents Archana and Hari from Los Angels share their baby Abhinav snaps of crawling from day 7 and visual stimulation program seems to be going on ..we wish them goodluck..!! check Abhi crawling snap on parenting.com. thanks.
wonderful parents Archana and Hari from Los Angels share their baby Abhinav snaps of crawling from day 7 and visual stimulation program seems to be going on ..we wish them goodluck..!! check Abhi crawling snap on parenting.com. thanks.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
some good article !!!
while reading u may also feel ..u would much rather swing from trees and eat bananas, and nap in the jungle canopy than engineer electronic gadgetry and take calculus refresher courses !!! catch on it !!!
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200807/children-educate-themselves-i-outline-some-the-evidence/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200807/children-educate-themselves-ii-we-all-know-s-true-little-kids
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200808/children-educate-themselves-iv-lessons-sudbury-valley
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200807/children-educate-themselves-i-outline-some-the-evidence/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200807/children-educate-themselves-ii-we-all-know-s-true-little-kids
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200808/children-educate-themselves-iv-lessons-sudbury-valley
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
say and do really works..my eyes filled with tears today!!!
|sheetal vinod to me
show details 5:00 PM (1 hour ago)
Hai Mam,
Just a small happiness of mine to share with you..Today there was a video shoot in 3 classes..People from outside had come to take a video of how the class go on in school, children doing several activities and this video will be shown on annual day which is in jan..I have some energetic children in my class who doesnt like sitting with lot of patience like elders and doing activity..Hardly for one minute thats all..again depend on the mood swings..Yesterday i spoke to my little ones like the way i talk to my friends or relatives. Explained to them that " tommorow anshul bhaiya will be coming to school to take our video...he will be going around in each class to check how children are doing the activity and he will be taking our video and he will show it to our parents on 23rd jan..so what we all should do is.. i said this and i divided into groups.. there were 4 activities for today and i have 11children..divided into groups explained to them wht each group will be doing..allotted corners and showed them whr they will be sitting..who will be sitting along with them..also informed them that forget that a shooting is happening just relax and finish your work..dont wory when he brings the camera close to you..he will be just focussing your face..similar with the focus lights..lets not get distracted because of those heavy lights..he l just be there for half an hr...he will take our video and go soon..so lets not disturb him in capturing our video "..they were all very anxious and i could see the curiousity in their eyes...today you will not believe my children touch wood..was so obedient and disciplined and the way they performed or did the activities, their maturity level i just cant express hw it was today...none of them were distracted nor did they look into the cam..nor were they worried or distracted. children who dont have the patience to sit for long also sat today which was just UNBELIEVABLE...my principal was there when the shooting was goin on..and aftr the shooting of all the classes...she told me " sheetal your class co-operated well, they were very good and not you they organised it very well and she just laughed..." my eyes filled not because of her appreciation, but i realised " ya they took the responsibility of their group and they ensured that they do it without anybody s help or push that tooo with discipline..Thats what i want..my children to be independent take the leadership without imposing on them..
i tried the strategy what you said...Say and do really works..Thanks a lot mam...Looking forward to learn more and more from you...
--
Regards ,
Sheetal Vinod,
show details 5:00 PM (1 hour ago)
Hai Mam,
Just a small happiness of mine to share with you..Today there was a video shoot in 3 classes..People from outside had come to take a video of how the class go on in school, children doing several activities and this video will be shown on annual day which is in jan..I have some energetic children in my class who doesnt like sitting with lot of patience like elders and doing activity..Hardly for one minute thats all..again depend on the mood swings..Yesterday i spoke to my little ones like the way i talk to my friends or relatives. Explained to them that " tommorow anshul bhaiya will be coming to school to take our video...he will be going around in each class to check how children are doing the activity and he will be taking our video and he will show it to our parents on 23rd jan..so what we all should do is.. i said this and i divided into groups.. there were 4 activities for today and i have 11children..divided into groups explained to them wht each group will be doing..allotted corners and showed them whr they will be sitting..who will be sitting along with them..also informed them that forget that a shooting is happening just relax and finish your work..dont wory when he brings the camera close to you..he will be just focussing your face..similar with the focus lights..lets not get distracted because of those heavy lights..he l just be there for half an hr...he will take our video and go soon..so lets not disturb him in capturing our video "..they were all very anxious and i could see the curiousity in their eyes...today you will not believe my children touch wood..was so obedient and disciplined and the way they performed or did the activities, their maturity level i just cant express hw it was today...none of them were distracted nor did they look into the cam..nor were they worried or distracted. children who dont have the patience to sit for long also sat today which was just UNBELIEVABLE...my principal was there when the shooting was goin on..and aftr the shooting of all the classes...she told me " sheetal your class co-operated well, they were very good and not you they organised it very well and she just laughed..." my eyes filled not because of her appreciation, but i realised " ya they took the responsibility of their group and they ensured that they do it without anybody s help or push that tooo with discipline..Thats what i want..my children to be independent take the leadership without imposing on them..
i tried the strategy what you said...Say and do really works..Thanks a lot mam...Looking forward to learn more and more from you...
--
Regards ,
Sheetal Vinod,
Monday, November 2, 2009
thanks dhruv...
its amazing to share this with u all...i just hugged my child and said "thanku so much u took care of me so well...whole day u took care of me"...he just said ma u should be so tired now u take rest...he kissed my forhead just like my mother would do when i was tired playing in my childhood...and later he started recollecting how did he take care of me...he says "yes i remember i shared the toothpaste with you"....and tommrrow i will share many more...ok.he instinctly felt so responsible that he started singing rhymes and sm music to make me sleep.......while i was enjoying his singing he slipped off to sleep....thnku dhruv...
An evening.......
while i was just asking dhruv (3yrs) some questions just for him to think on...
Me:why is this tree so tall...
Dhruv:for me to climb it...
Me:oh
Dhruv:u know my feet are strong they weigh 20kgs...i can climb easily..
Me:oh how do you know they weigh 20kgs..
Dhruv: doctor said when i put my feets on weighing machine he looked down and said 20kgs...
i just could not stop laughing...so do you isnt it.....
Me:why is this tree so tall...
Dhruv:for me to climb it...
Me:oh
Dhruv:u know my feet are strong they weigh 20kgs...i can climb easily..
Me:oh how do you know they weigh 20kgs..
Dhruv: doctor said when i put my feets on weighing machine he looked down and said 20kgs...
i just could not stop laughing...so do you isnt it.....
Why are Indian families shrinking?
Hi...a nice article from Hindustan Times.....check it out....
http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20091031/1074/tod-why-are-indian-families-shrinking.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20091031/1074/tod-why-are-indian-families-shrinking.html
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Krish !! !!
am sharing a message from yashika ...wonderful mom...pls check the youtube link given below to see krish..
Hi Srujana,
I am doing good and I hope you too might be having fun with your kids.
My son Krish is doing good. Sometimes I do recall your classes and try to apply some of the excercises
we practised. I still have all your valuable messages in my cell and I keep going through same every now and then.
Please see Krish videos in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vk7TA3YXk0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWAjiDKGmVw
His video was featured in Oprah show last year when we were in Toronto.
Regards,
Yashika
Hi Srujana,
I am doing good and I hope you too might be having fun with your kids.
My son Krish is doing good. Sometimes I do recall your classes and try to apply some of the excercises
we practised. I still have all your valuable messages in my cell and I keep going through same every now and then.
Please see Krish videos in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vk7TA3YXk0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWAjiDKGmVw
His video was featured in Oprah show last year when we were in Toronto.
Regards,
Yashika
Good news...!!!
hi all,
am so happy and thrilled to share my sis delivered a baby boy this morning in LA . named him "Abhinav"...my kids are so excited for having another baby brother in family....our family extends...godbless...thanks.
srujana.
am so happy and thrilled to share my sis delivered a baby boy this morning in LA . named him "Abhinav"...my kids are so excited for having another baby brother in family....our family extends...godbless...thanks.
srujana.
Beauty in Being Mom.!!!!
after becoming a mom ..It’s not that I hated how I looked, really. It’s just that after a while, it was hard to be judged, and not start co-signing the judgments. Maybe my skin was getting a little dark...lot of hormonal changes.. My affinity for books and dolls little too nerdy.
some folks -- mostly adults -- stood at the ready to remind me of this..I shouldn’t play in the sun because my skin may spoil even more ... friends often clucked that am “getting fat.” I alternated between being barely able to cope with the daily responsibilities of motherhood and mind-numbing confusion.i must say...sometimes My days felt like a marathon disaster movie, starring me racing around after my child to prevent him from hurling himself from high places and/or gleefully electrocuting himself. My nights were a study in sleep deprivation, with kids waking up every two hours ...my passion to many things has to be substituted....but still..... Being a mom is both a pleasant and challenging life-time event...you have the power to recreate and bring new life to this world. You get the chance to witness a baby grown, from inside of you, and grow into a responsible, happy and successful adult. There is no other feeling similar to that of the maternal impulse. my day goes with books, crayons, or blocks..looking around for caterpillers turning to butterflies with kids and so on... ,everyday i prepare myselves for the adventure and experience of a lifetime! It is crazy how some believe that bearing a child is the end of their lives but actually, what they fail to see is that, it is a new beginning.. Your baby is an extention of yourself .. Motherhood is your time to discover new and fresh ways to raise a healthy, sound-minded soul…thats the beauty in me..in being a mom.....its nice that am learning to embrace every moment and comment ...great...thanks...
srujana.
some folks -- mostly adults -- stood at the ready to remind me of this..I shouldn’t play in the sun because my skin may spoil even more ... friends often clucked that am “getting fat.” I alternated between being barely able to cope with the daily responsibilities of motherhood and mind-numbing confusion.i must say...sometimes My days felt like a marathon disaster movie, starring me racing around after my child to prevent him from hurling himself from high places and/or gleefully electrocuting himself. My nights were a study in sleep deprivation, with kids waking up every two hours ...my passion to many things has to be substituted....but still..... Being a mom is both a pleasant and challenging life-time event...you have the power to recreate and bring new life to this world. You get the chance to witness a baby grown, from inside of you, and grow into a responsible, happy and successful adult. There is no other feeling similar to that of the maternal impulse. my day goes with books, crayons, or blocks..looking around for caterpillers turning to butterflies with kids and so on... ,everyday i prepare myselves for the adventure and experience of a lifetime! It is crazy how some believe that bearing a child is the end of their lives but actually, what they fail to see is that, it is a new beginning.. Your baby is an extention of yourself .. Motherhood is your time to discover new and fresh ways to raise a healthy, sound-minded soul…thats the beauty in me..in being a mom.....its nice that am learning to embrace every moment and comment ...great...thanks...
srujana.
Friday, October 30, 2009
just a sharing.....
Inspiring words
yesterday we played reading cards differently.....i would show colours like brown and ask him to find the color around him...shapes when i say cone he would say ice-cream...then professionals...when i show doctor he would say his doctors name,driver and teacher n police he said police station...he is jst associating information he already has....its fun...and then cards with action like turn around,jump up,etc...dhruv is just loving it and so do we!!!!
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we role play alot....enact like mom dad teacher,doctor.....dhruv jst knows why he has to visit doctor and knows the medicines he has to take incase..he would ask for it and remind me with the names and the reason he is taking...
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we were enacting sm expressions (navarasas) my elder son was upset n said anger is bad it mks him bad in front of all when he expressing it...coz some bad words come out like stupid etc....answer was in his question...i jst reminded him that feeling happy,sad,angry are natural but the way u express is wht matters lik we dont laugh loud when a baby is sleeping..so anger also can be expressed healthy way..nd to learn to handle urself...ways to calm down...count numbers..go for a walk...say out whts mking u angry...finally meditate is the best...!!!! i left the room as he was deeply thinking........
its imp for parents and teachers to understand and handle with ease when children express anger...we never ask why are u laughing ?when sm1 laughs...but we ask why are u angry?why are u crying?stop it......instead of questioning thr expression...be thr...listen...go to the root cause and solve it.....they just need our presence...
yesterday we played reading cards differently.....i would show colours like brown and ask him to find the color around him...shapes when i say cone he would say ice-cream...then professionals...when i show doctor he would say his doctors name,driver and teacher n police he said police station...he is jst associating information he already has....its fun...and then cards with action like turn around,jump up,etc...dhruv is just loving it and so do we!!!!
------
we role play alot....enact like mom dad teacher,doctor.....dhruv jst knows why he has to visit doctor and knows the medicines he has to take incase..he would ask for it and remind me with the names and the reason he is taking...
------
we were enacting sm expressions (navarasas) my elder son was upset n said anger is bad it mks him bad in front of all when he expressing it...coz some bad words come out like stupid etc....answer was in his question...i jst reminded him that feeling happy,sad,angry are natural but the way u express is wht matters lik we dont laugh loud when a baby is sleeping..so anger also can be expressed healthy way..nd to learn to handle urself...ways to calm down...count numbers..go for a walk...say out whts mking u angry...finally meditate is the best...!!!! i left the room as he was deeply thinking........
its imp for parents and teachers to understand and handle with ease when children express anger...we never ask why are u laughing ?when sm1 laughs...but we ask why are u angry?why are u crying?stop it......instead of questioning thr expression...be thr...listen...go to the root cause and solve it.....they just need our presence...
Green Hour ...
well green hour is nothing but an hour of being with nature....we have been on for a nature walk and my 3yr old son was going around watching caterpillers eating the leaves and wondering how they turn to butterflies,enjoyed birds chirping, he pickedup some leaves and b4 he plucked the leaf he informed the plant and said thanks with a touch ...he was giggling saying that when he tickles the leaves ,baby leaves are laughing....he tickled all the plants and had fun...later he drew outlines of differents leaves....learnt the parts of plant.whenever i find his energy needs a direction..the best thing i find to settle them is taking them close to nature....they observe and obsorb the silence.... not just that ,he learnt basic concepts of science, maths ... the concepts big/little, tall/short, long/short, high/low, wide/narrow, thick/thin, deep/shallow, on, next to, in, outside, inside, down, and up. colours ..shades of it...he started asking should i color light green,dark or other...count,sort,patterns,size...Know whole objects are made up of parts (fractions)....it was just fun...and for now aftr his aftrnoon nap....we would go on to make a map of our layout to start with parks...and in the late evening ...we would touch upon measurements ,science experiments,reading and lots of hands on activities...it adds with the childs quest to know ....am just waiting!...actually i realized i did not teach him but he learnt by his own observations and his quest to learn...i was just present around him...may be thats what they need ..just our presence saying am their go ahead !! great...feel free to add on sm ideas,ur experience,ur learning...thanku,
srujana...
srujana...
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