Being parented

Some wanted to know what is the meaning of “not growing the child”.

I have mentioned in one of my previous posts that every child is a gift, wrapped up with layers of wrapping paper. The difference between a man made gift and the divine’s gift is -> Divine gift will unwrap itself. All we need to do is observe it unwrap.

As we observe, the child will grow into an adolescent and youth. And as they grow we are also made aware of their purpose in this world.

As parents, our job is not to ensure that they fail but rather give them freedom to grow and gather life experiences. We need to be there to pick them up when they cannot get up by themselves I.e. allow them to try to get up by themselves as much as possible.

The above gives powerful life experiences. Good thing about learning in childhood is that the damage is easily reversible which is not so easy once they grow up to be adults.

My parents and me

I am now writing this series of “My parents and me”. In this I will share how they parented me. Hope it will help you all as parents.

Many ask me “Nalini how do you manage so much variety of activities” To this my answer is -> The key is in how I was allowed to grow from a child to a youth and then an adult

My mother did not grow me. She just watched me grow. She told me a lot of stories which had moral values and appealed to day to day life. My response to those stories were -> I built my boundaries within which I had to live...

My father loved my mother very much and respected her too.

Both of them did not treat me as a daughter but as their child.

All this impacted me. More in the next series

What is meditation

Since I often quote introspection and meditation as the tools that I use frequently, people said I know how to use the tool introspection but what about meditation. Is it useful for day to day living or only for spirituality ?

So I thought I would write this blog

All of us know about prayers so let me connect meditation with prayer first.

Prayer is ‘us’ talking to the Divine and meditation is ‘us’ listening to the Divine’s voice

All of us are accustomed to the inner voice which is constantly playing within us.

When we are disturbed, the inner voice is very turbulent and following it creates a lot of discord. That inner voice is the voice of what we often call as Evil or Negativity within us.

That is why it is important not to react when the mind is turbulent. The Tamil Aathichudi also says that.

Better to wait for mind to become calm. The inner voice heard when the mind is calm is the voice of Divinity or Positivity within us

If you wish to get into this, start by being aware of yourself. You can start by bringing awareness to your breathing to understand the state of mind.

If your breath is smooth that implies mind is calm. 

Strive for that.

May the divine world be with you.

Jai hind ! Valgha Vazhamudan !

Is it Online Teaching or Online Telling

Teaching is a very rewarding experience. That is why very few teachers shift their profession... whereas individuals of other professions such as Software professionals, quit their jobs and try to become teachers. Even though it is not so lucrative financially.

Joy of seeing the child who has understood the concept and works with the concept is immeasurable

But today many experienced teachers are also not able to teach effectively since Online is a new paradigm

The teaching process has become that of “Telling” instead of “Teaching”

Dear Teachers, try Flip Classroom. It is very effective in today’s situation

We at MyOpenSkool.in are coming up with an Online solution -> ‘Zero budget teaching’. 

Watch this space for more information

Power of silence

To know oneself is the highest and toughest learning. Once we reach that level, we become aware of our reactions and thus empowered to act rather than react.

That is what spirituality tries to teach us

For the past few days, I was in silence…the reason -> everyone to whom I spoke to, said MyOpenSkool.in is a wondrous and splendid concept. But no one was ready to buy and apply the concept.

My reason for going behind MyOpenSkool.in is not money. I am software professional. I can earn a lot by Consultancy.

My reason behind pushing MyOpenSkool.in is - replace “Stress” with “Joy” and “Prosperity”

If children are joyous, the families too will be joyous. Joyous families make prosperous societies.

My journey into silence has empowered me with a simplified solution model which is practical and easily adaptable to today’s world

My vision converted into a dream and now it is becoming a reality...

A world where children are in blissful learning and growth with a lot of fun...

We grew up with so much of freedom and fun....this generation children too should receive it...they must not be labelled and drugged with mental illness drugs... 

We must enable them to develop their survival instincts...it is their birthright.

Jai Hind ! Vazhga Vazhamudan!!!