Wish every kid on the planet a happy children’s day! 🙂
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Category: kids
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happy children’s day!
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can you hear me?
Experienced the gist of this poignant song… though in a lighter way, this morning…
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video: children full of life
When I first saw this video tweeted by @charityfocus, I wondered how sensible these children are. But then I had to remind myself from my own experience interacting with kids, that any child can be so, as long as they’re treated with respect.
This video is really the perfect living world example of the earlier story from Suresh Panje of the perfect heart!
Here the teacher says
There’s an expression I love: ‘Let people live in your heart’. There’s no limit on numbers. They tell the stories, and everyone shares their feelings. When people really listen… they live in your heart forever.
“In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.”
This is a series… video #2 is about how he handles bullying…
some insights from this one…
‘good teachers connect theory with life’ (a japanese character looks like a mother taking care of her baby)
How he handles bullying… asks everyone to talk about it. After a while…
‘if you pick on someone, you’re not being a friend. Friends don’t pick on each other. That’s not what friends are. Think about your friends, there in your heart. Why would you pick on them? Lets get to the bottom of this.’
And later on after a discussion he says “Are you all trying to hide behind pretty words? You think you’re good boys and girls, don’t you? After all these things you’re saying, what’s missing? You’re blaming everyone but yourself! ‘I did something wrong’ who said that? Nobody! Too perfect for words! … You never wrote about this!”
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word on the street – practice
There is a children’s program I came across by chance while looking for something for my son. The “Word on the street” is “practice”. Happened to find the video online as well.
They define practice as “practice means you try something again and again to learn how to do it better“
Whatever we practice, its not a matter of just repeating something every day, course after course or day after day, but when we practice it with this attitude it helps to add more value.
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children are the future
I’ve heard this song countless times over the years. But somehow after my three day workshop for chilren’s camps last weekend, it makes more sense than ever.
Here are the lyrics:
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tagged: Slow Melodious and Soulful Songs
Finally catching up with a long-procrastinated tag by Destination Infinity for Kannada… This was a real fun excercise I did along with my mom… hope you enjoy these Kannada song selection! 🙂
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a good investment
Today I received a handwritten letter. Its been a long time since I got a handwritten letter in the mail, many years (I don’t even remember when the last time was!) So it was a good surprise to find one today.
The contents had a photo of a little girl, and a copy of her marks card which had only Goods and Very Goods, and the following letter, that quite made our hearts jump…
Priya* is good in studies. Father works as a coolie and mother as a maind servant. The income of the father is very meagre as he does not go for work regularly. He drinks a lot and does not care for the family. Mother is taking care of the children and is interested to educate both the children. They stay in a small house for rent. Grandmother helps the children for food. Priya met with an accident & got hurt in the head, she had underwent operation at NIMHANS and still under medication. Our assistance is needed to educate Priya.
* name changed for privacy
We felt deeply touched and grateful at this opportunity to be part of someone else’s life. There is a certain almost inexplicable quiet joy.
We will be receiving this report regularly every few months, and depending on our time and inclination, can provide whatever support we like to Priya. This was after sponsoring a year’s education for her through the Karanata State Council for Child Welfare, which costs Rs. 2500. This is an annual commitment till she completes her 12th standard.
Priya studies in Gnaneshwari Vidya Mandira in R.T. Nagar, Bangalore. Not only money, they can use some help in teaching the children as well – anyone interested please email me for further details.
Not being some millionaire but only a common man running a middle class family – and I need to work hard to support my family and try to sustain some kind of security for the future especially amidst a very uncertain market with all the economic gloom.
Nevertheless, I feel the satisfaction of having made a good investment for the future (even though if it may not my own future! 😉 ) A song sung by Whitney Houston I’d first heard years ago still rings in my head (and heart)…
I believe that children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
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art tutor for a day
Very unexpectedly, I ended up teaching a couple of neighborhood kids how to paint. Here are some of the ideas.
Assumed that there is already an initial outline picture on the paper which is to be filled in…
- only the tip of the paintbrush should be dipped in paint, not the entire brush.
- first paint the outline very carefully and neatly, making sure not even a single drop of paint comes outside, and then paint the interior gradually
- use only strokes in the same direction as much as possible
- wait for a coat to dry before applying a second coat
- clean the brush thoroughly after use
- its good to buy a coloring book which has empty outlines where the child can paint inside. But its can also be fun to actually ask him what he wants to draw, draw the outline for him on the spot, and then he paints it.
[optional reading] Background trigger… series of unrelated events…
I was recently watching What Dreams May Come had seen it earlier once long ago, but watching it again the dialogues and story was more rivetting than ever, and the main point related to this post is that there’s a LOT of painting involved in this movie…
Was browsing through the very colorful Jana’s Journal and appreciating the lovely pictures there…
And recently was writing to my Mukthabalaga friends on a nice activity at home – my wife gives my son a watercolor paintbox and paintbrush, and then sits with him somewhat nonobstrusively, aiding him to just experiment with colors.
So recently a couple of neighbouring kids were playing at home with Abhinav, and they started using his paint set and I was passing by and was really aghast looking at them scrubbing the paper like they were using a toilet brush to remove a stain. I had to stop myself from shouting “NOooo Noooo nOOOO…”
So sat down with them, and started explaining how to paint. As I started, I started recollecting more and more how I used to really enjoy painting during my school days – and it was a really nice time 😎 -
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