Tag: Kids

Articles & Opinions, Parenting

Do you think that children should be rewarded for trying, not just succeeding?

Before we get to children, let us take a moment to find what is the difference between trying and succeeding. Here is my thought. Trying is a journey. It is not an end or destination. yes it ends when we quit or fail or succeed, until then it is a journey. Succeeding is a destination and end to what we have been trying. But it … Continue reading Do you think that children should be rewarded for trying, not just succeeding?

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Circles of Life – Visiting my Home Town

Wordsworth’s poem used the proverb ‘The child is the father of the man’. For many it denotes the unchanged man, about habits of childhood shaping the adult. For me it always reminds me of the little circles of life we complete before we get to a full circle… When I first wore my dad’s shoe and it perfectly fit me, it was one circle; when … Continue reading Circles of Life – Visiting my Home Town

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Blog, Life

The essence of being human is to never leave humanity out of our sight just like we never leave our kids from our sight

A few weeks back I was driving back after going to an Elementary School to judge some literary work by small kids. My 9 year old son was sitting in the car behind me. We were having some father son time together driving back and forth. I had NPR playing and it was a discussion about the Private Prisons for illegal immigrant detainees in the … Continue reading The essence of being human is to never leave humanity out of our sight just like we never leave our kids from our sight

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To my kids on their first day of school in 2014

A new year comes with new expectations,  new responsibilities, new teachers, new friends… There will be glimpses of life from last year, there will even be opportunities from next year that will force itself into this one and above all there is a lot of new things to learn. And here is what I got to tell to both of you Rahi, You are a second grader now. … Continue reading To my kids on their first day of school in 2014

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Articles, Articles & Opinions, Creativity, Education, Learning, Life and Happiness

Ken Robinson – Conformity, Creativity and Education’s Death Valley

There wouldn’t be many who have not seen Sir Ken Robinson talk on Education at TED… I mean on your Laptops…. it was quite viral… both his videos on TED.com and here now there is a new one… funny and thought provoking… asking us all the questions all over again… “How well do we know our kids?” “How can we help them succeed in what … Continue reading Ken Robinson – Conformity, Creativity and Education’s Death Valley

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Education, Personal, Society

Clarifications on my recent post “open letter to my Teachers”

My recent post “An open letter to my teachers” did raise a few comments where people mistook my intention and message and I felt it was important to write a clarification. It is also my feeling that many of the folks who read did not read the post completely and got stuck on some of the verbal usages I lovingly added in there. First thing, … Continue reading Clarifications on my recent post “open letter to my Teachers”

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Life, Life and Happiness, My Two Cents, Style40

In life there are lot of trips we take and then there is the field trip we took as kids

  Field trips are great fun as a kid and I often see the excitement in our 12 year old when she has one. It might be a trip to the same museum we have gone before, but for kids it is a major event that they start planning well ahead. Today as I took my morning commute a whole class of second graders got … Continue reading In life there are lot of trips we take and then there is the field trip we took as kids

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