NOKIA HAND SET WITH IDEA SIM-CHANGE THE WORLD

Nokia hand set says "Getting connected with People" with Idea Sim in it says " Change your life"--is the common wordings on commoners lips with dual offer!!

This is the trend slogans of mobile generation. It is the mobile way of life, mobile etiquette, mobile language and mobile communication that is guiding us. Every one is now under the control of mobile phones, in fact almost 99% of us around the world suffer from "Mobile Obsession"-- a mental disorder. hey1 How nice. All that we invent is more for used for destruction than for construction. More so when our cine stars become the brand ambassadors and each when highlighting that "This" is good, "that" is great or wise. No cine star is highlighting the misuse or harmful effects of use of Mobile Phones.

Each company is coming forward with multi plans of recharge offers with "longer talk time and life time packages". Each company is fooling common people on the name of "Change Your Life", no company is bothered about the destruction the mobile phones causing to human most important organ "Brain".

Well, at one side, it is definitely helping people to get connected, but more than getting people connected it is disconnected "FRIENDS" and "RELATIVES". Mobile phones have interrupted mobility of humans.

I wonder about the language usage too.... Many of the students are now answering the English Language paper in English SMS Language. "SMS-Short Messaging Service has now turned into Stupid Messaging Service".

One can learn "How best to waste TIME using mobile phone". Again, one is able to learn to give better "excuses" too.

Every day, new product with new unique features and design is up in the market, tempting us to throw away the old ones and go for new. About How many? I recently surveyed college youth having more than 5-6 handsets with 7-8 SIM cards. Many of them come from poor families who struggle between two full meals.

I wondered one day when my son who is in Grade VII came home and said that his classmate has a high end Touch Screen handset worth Rs50,000/-. Are we posing that our purchasing power has increased or these mobile handsets are making the SIX SENSE human being to dance on their dial pads????

These handsets that have become playing toys for little toddlers is turning into an unimaginable threatening weapon we all playing with. In fact these handsets have now become "Bomb Explosive Machine" and has caused destruction throughout the world killing innocent people.

How to get rid of it??? Is a question like many I too have.

Recently I met two people who have given up using mobile phones and say it is quite cool without mobile phones. Kudos to them!!

How about you!?

"Orientation on Parenting"-Every parent should know

I always wonder, how did my parents, especially m mother managed to bring me and my brothers. As each one were more notorious than the other. I also keeping asking and talking to know about the challenges my cousins had while upbringing their children. These are the learning experiences for all of us. Parenting is an art and as a parent every attempt is to be made to learn the art of parenting of children.

My mother always said that as a parent one must learn to be more patient in approaching child or teaching or handling child's issues. She also said that this was perhaps one of the reasons for having more children. Sibling rivalry, sharing, responding and also setting as an example was easy for them. Again, they accepted to learn the art of parenting with an open mind and not being judgmental. Of course, to some extend joint family system also helped in nurturing and inculcating the value system.

But modern days Parents are more anxious and register themselves much head of their children in the rat race. I also belong to this era and sometimes more confused too-

Recently, in one of the meetings a damaging statement was made by a renowned Child Psychologist-"PARENTS AND TEACHERS ARE THE TWO ENEMIES FOR CHILDREN". Where should a child go to???????

As per our traditional values goes we recite, respect and recognize mother as our "FIRST TEACHER"-"MATHRU DEVO BHAVA", "PITRU DEVO BHAVA" and thirdly regard TEACHERS as "ACHARYA DEVO BHAVA". If parents are the first enemy for a child-then there must be another alternative to the birth of children, secondly, if teachers are also enemies then where should the children go for learning.

Well, I consider parents as "BLESSED HUMAN BEINGS" and not all are fortunate and blessed enough to be PARENTS. Again, second blessed are the "TEACHERS" who have chosen to be in this noble field.

I met an interesting middle aged women who barged into a training programme session I was attending with a big smile. It was her session and she was late to her training class (as she was rushing straight from hospital attending to her mother-in-law who was hospitalized). She had lots of activities for teaching children and every answer regarding child challenges. Since then I am close to her and great admirer and can say that I have become a "Ceiling Fan or Table top Fan" kind. She is none other than Dr. Chitti Vishnupiya, who has done her PhD research in "Parent Education and Child Development".Greatest plus point is she begin her career as a "Teacher". Recently she has authored a book called "Know your child".

I am fortunate that I was trained by her and got to learn some aspect of parenting. In fact, she has helped me to see the child and child's difficulty from different angles.

Every stage of a child's development poses lots of challenges to parents and also to teachers. In fact, teachers also should be trained in handling parents and counselling parents. Handling smart kids, shy kids, problematic kids, hyperactive and so on and many more. As every child is unique, so are every parent. Each parent may not necessarily come across same problems as others do in coping up with children.

She always says that spend more time with children and as a parent one gets to know better and build good bondage...... Very true.

Parents are the first "ROLE MODELS" for children and next are the teachers. So, as a parent and teacher, we have to play our roles properly.

7C- labelled as Most Undisciplined classes

I seldom watch soaps on television, the other day I happened to watch one on Vijay TV Tamil called '7C'. This is about School, Students and Teachers. 7C is a labeled as problematic class also. This reminded me of my school days. Even my class was labelled as "undisciplined", "noisy", "worst" class in the school and every teacher had one or another complain against us. Fortunately, the teacher of the class is very fond of his class students and is striving hard to improve their learning skills and so on. This is probably something happening in the soap and not in reality.

Well, then I encountered that they had similar complaints against all- for one substantial reason being most of the students did not perform well at studies and were probably up to the expectation level of the teachers.

Now, I put it this way, perhaps, it  was or is teachers who failed to come down to the students' level, understand the understandable capacity of the students, as a better teaching aid and make learning easy and enjoyable. So, it's the "TEACHERS" who failed and just pass on the blame on students. It's easy isn't it?????

Though, I still have high regards for my teachers and for some of them I still remember and also talk about them with my son, friends and so on.

One of the subject teachers of my son's school also has a similar notion about his class. He is also in Grade 7 but not 7C. She was complaining that-"I really wonder how they have come without learning the basics". This is the question that has to be put the former grade teachers not the students. I would say, till grade 10, every aspect of learning is basics-every year of learning adds to the basic learning, be it English, Languages, Science, Maths of Social Science. It is in-depth and proper learning of basic that stands as firm "FOUNDATION" that determines the students to choose his/her career choice.

Yet another visible problem is "TEACHERS WANTED"--very hard to find good, dedicated, interested, passion for teaching Teachers. Though there is a demand for teachers and not for teachers who have a passion for teaching.  Again, the profession and remuneration  given is not adequate and does not give proper recognition. This is again yet another big problem of dedicated teachers losing enthusiasm over a period.

This again reminds me that each occupation has its own related occupation hazard over a period of time. This could be the reason of providing welfare measures to recharge themselves, overcome monotonous or routine schedule and meaningful breaks helps them to perform better. Well. I am not sure such a thing happening with teachers teaching even at corporate schools.

Anyway, in every school one class or section gets labelled as "MOST UNDISCIPLINED CLASS"

Curbing Children's Right of Development

Every parent, every teacher and every school talks about "Holistic Development". I wonder what is this all about holistic development- what is this after all?

All of us want to give the maximum scope for development for our children. It is the dream of every parent/s that their child should be the next Sachin Tendukar or Saina or Sania.....

One should focus on all round development of the child and explore the interest of the child and encourage the child in the that field-be it sports, drawing, craft, creativity or music, skating, swimming and so on.

To all this, firstly, we need to allow the children to come out of inhibition and also extend full trust, faith and support from our side. Then we can see children's development. Again, the development stages  vary from one child to another. One as a parent or teacher or observer need to have patience.

Well, all said and done, most of the time we elders curb the child's development-be at home, in school, when with peer group, in a common get-together. How do you think then development would take place.

A couple of days ago, my son told me that- he and his co-friends are not allowed to  talk on the bus on their way to  school or while returning home. A bus leader keeps watching and who ever talks are given punishment of sitting next to the teacher travelling along with them in the bus and kids would obviously keep their mouth shut. The journey time is roughly about forty minutes.  This is for the reason that some of the teachers who also travel in the bus take a nap and don't want to be disturbed by talking. Don't you think it is curbing the spoken ability development? Curbing communication skill development

My son said that he was discussing about some sports with his co-friend and he is asked not to do it. I have hardly found any child of my son's age discussing about sports, history or archaeological excavations and so on within the peer group interaction. His complaint was that perhaps his friends don't know about these things to discuss and mostly they would only discuss about current films either Telugu or Hindi.

Is there not a difference between speaking, talking, discussing or arguing? -- I don't know

I asked my son to be assertive and tell the bus leader that he was not talking but discussing. Well, my suggestion did not work as it fell on deaf hears. For the bus leader-discussing or arguing all comes under talking.

I was some how disturbed that I take sessions and encourage children to talk to get a hold on vocabulary usage, context and this would help them to speak up spontaneously and also encourage them indirectly to read also.  So all the way for eighty minutes- to and fro children are supposed to be silent. One can imagine the plight of the children; has not only the ability but also the enthusiasm and zeal to go to school is also getting curbed.--

It is not literally policing? ....