A Parents and Educators Collective
A Parents and Educators Collective
More and more teens and adults are decidedly feeling unhappy because they are eternally on autopilot trying to field the world’s expectations on them. Some of us meet those expectations only to realize that it failed to give us the fulfillment we sought within ourselves; some of us burnout mid-way trying to fulfill them; some of us realize that there has to be another way to find what we truly seek
I love my son, please don’t get me wrong. BUT, he is the worst friend. I see this dark side of him emerge every time he has a friend over to hang out. It doesn’t …
I am still in the process of defining what education is to me. But, I do know what it isn’t! There are ongoing attempts at resolving the conundrum called education…
If the lockdown has done any good to me and the girls, it is this! The Girls and I dabbled in multiple things, exchanged lots of ideas, and then, one fine day, our eyes fell …
Online classes have become a reality for those of us with children in middle and high school. For a country that still hangs on to the pedagogical methods from the last century, moving to a …
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ” – Albert Einstein My daughter was homeschooled for a total of …
I was 13. My body had started to change. I had grown taller, my breasts had sprouted. I had also recently started getting an unwelcome bloody visitor every month. I was not sure if I …
It was a sunny afternoon, with the chirping birds, the rustling of leaves and the exuberant laughter of children around the house. The children were playing snakes and ladders, and with every rise and fall, …
The older generation loves to claim that Millennials have had it easy. No world wars, famines, economic depression that crippled countries for decades, easy access to basic necessities, the internet and ecommerce! I mean, what …
“Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it’s teeming with energy and fraught with danger.”- Mary Pipher We’ve all been an adolescent once. We remember what it’s like to be one, …
Most of us are at home, willingly or not, riding through the Corona Virus pandemic. Some of us are working from home, some are studying, but all are waiting for a semblance of a …
As much as we would hate to admit it, hard and difficult times are but a phase in our lives. Sometimes, they come in the form of trying times in our personal lives. At other …