Creative Edge
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Let your creative juices flow and don’t be afraid to take chances.
Education
The purpose of EDUCATION is to replace an EMPTY MIND with an OPEN ONE.
A Teacher's Tools.
Wonderful Thoughts.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind. The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back. The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds. - Bill Moore
Go with your heart. Our brains only screw things up. - Chris Fedak
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you - Frank Tyger
Be nice to those whom you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down. - Walter Winchell
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert E
The Secret to Smarter Kids
As parents we want happy and healthy children, many would like them to also be smart. For today’s parents this desire is often made easier with the help of educational toys, technology, and a better understanding of brain processes through science.
Despite the publicity over mass media, there is no convincing scientific evidence that sophisticated toys are useful for more advanced development of children’s intelligence, compared to simple or similar toys.
So what is the secret to a smart child?
Above all it’s about true love and affection. It’s understanding that a child’s brain is something under construction, a sponge ready to absorb all the knowledge one can handle.
This article will discuss behaviors related to increased IQ score in children:
1. Music Lessons– Taking music lessons, or learning to play a musical instrument is crucial for improved brain function, not only in children but also in adults. IQ scores increased to a small but consistent degree. Music stimulates all brain regions, affecting creation of synapses, thus the learning process. It is likely that singing and dancing are beneficial as well, since they require complex cognitive abilities like coordination, memory, motor skills, and emotional processes.
2. Exercise– This is beneficial in every possible way. Increased blood flow, improved cognitive ability, and a healthy cardiovascular system are the primary benefits of exercise. For kids exercise is as easy as letting them play. Don’t let them spend all day watching TV or playing video games.
3. Napping and appropriate sleep– Napping helps reorganize the learning process and memories, children that take regular naps are able to remember more words accurately than those who didn’t in verbal skills tests.
4. Willpower– It’s one key to individual success. Willpower comes from self-discipline, and discipline comes from habits, consciousness, and curiosity. Self-discipline is a good predictor of intelligence and satisfactory outcomes, even more than IQ. Consciousness plays a large role in self-discipline, always try to be a mirror, a source of consciousness for your child.
5. Learn by doing not watching– Babies are not smarter from watching videos. The same logic applies to adults, most of the time a video will not make us smarter. Any active learning is ideal, while passive learning derived from videos and television may be harmful.
6. Diet– A diet high in fiber, protein, complex carbohydrates, and healthy fats containing low sugar is ideal for better brain performance at any age. Caffeine and sugar can be brain boosters, but sugar since in large doses can be toxic to brain cells, and caffeine can adversely affect bone development in children.
7. Happiness– Happy kids are the most important facet of good parenting. Physical and emotional development, performance, satisfaction and stability are only a few scores improved by happiness. Careful and loving affection and attention are some of the most tangible ways to make a child happy. Making a child happy can be the easiest thing in the world, children are magical in their simplicity.
8. Peer group– Pay attention to your child’s peer group, with whom they hang out, and what they like. Your neighborhood, home life, social life, and religious activity, extended family, and chosen school will all have a significant effect on your child and how they see the world.
MOMENTS
LEARNING FROM LIFE’S TEACHING
How many times do we encounter challenging situations in our work or personal life and complain our way through them, because we perceive them as hard, painful or difficult? Pretty often, right? All you have to do is overhear a few conversations in a coffee shop, or scroll down your social media feed, to see how readily we complain about our latest troubles.
Sometimes, chance and randomness do come to bear on our lives in a way that is truly negative and harmful. But more often than not, “bad” things actually provide good opportunities to learn something about ourselves, improve or expand our skillset, or become more versatile and resilient.
When plants wither it’s all too easy to look at them and think that they look ugly, dried out and dead. But if they’re a perennial, sure enough, next spring they’re going to be beautiful, full of color and covered in flowers again. So many times we look at something in our life from a similarly short-sighted viewpoint.
In our impatience, we don’t recognize that, yes, something has happened in our life that has caused a certain plant to wither. But once the seasons change, it’s going to flourish once more. Or perhaps new seeds will have been sown without us knowing it, and a new and beautiful shrub will bloom in another part of the garden.
I’ve seen such things happen in the life of my oldest daughter recently. She loved her job as a county attorney, but didn’t get reelected. This surprising event knocked her down for a while, because she had so much invested in what she was doing.
At first she told me that, in this time of bitter disappointment, she felt like a failure as she moved back home. I told her that we only fail if we don’t try our best. She had given it everything, so it wasn’t failure at all.
Now she has turned her talents in another direction, steadied herself, and used the tenacity she developed as a county attorney to start her own legal practice. This would never have happened if she hadn’t been forced out of her comfort zone, or had allowed a setback to crush her spirit.
Miracles often only happen in hindsight. Sometime this week I encourage you to spend a few minutes thinking back over what’s happened in your career and life over the past five or 10 years. Yes, there will be some painful things and maybe some unpleasant memories. But if you look for patterns and connections between events I bet you’re also going to see how circumstances came together to help you grow, learn a valuable lesson, or improve a skill.
Be thankful for this and for the challenges that led to these developments. And when the next situation that you immediately perceive as a problem comes along— and it will— try to reframe it as an opportunity, recognizing that it’s too early to see the opportunity that it likely presents. This will allow you to be more positive in the now, more hopeful for the future, and more open to the “teaching moments” that life gives us, if only we’re willing to learn from them.
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Proud to be Indian
Be proud of your Country.
August 15, 1947 will always be remembered as a momentous day in the history of India. On this day, India gained independence from the British after being ruled by them for nearly 200 years. August 15 has been celebrated as Independence Day in the country since then. On this day, the Prime Minister hoists the Indian flag on the Red Fort in Delhi. Twenty-one gunshots are fired in honour of the solemn occasion. The President of India delivers the "Address to the Nation". In addition, several events are held where kids and their parents dress up as freedom fighters and deliver speeches. If you or your kid is planning to do so, here are a few interesting tips.
1. Do know the history
Though many of us might find it boring, it is important to know the history of our country's independence. It is not something that just 'happened' in seconds. Many people sacrificed their lives on the road to independence. Before you or your child give an Independence Day speech, you must be aware of the challenges, sacrifices, struggles, that our freedom fighters endured.
2. Facts always help
A sign of a good speaker is that they amuse and engage the audience while also informing them. This can be made possible by giving out interesting facts. Be well versed about fundamental concepts of our national anthem, what the colours of the flag signify, and also be aware of our freedom fighters.
3. Simplicity is the key
Your speech must not be jargon at all. It must be simple and precise to reach out to maximum people. Complicated knowledge and information make the speech uninteresting to listeners. Thus, make sure it is not overly long or repeated.
4. Design a framework
Your speech must have structure, else it will be incomplete. It must have an introduction, body, and conclusion. The introduction must be short, followed by greeting the guests and spectators. After that comes the major part of the speech that should focus on the freedom struggle, the significance of Independence Day, and our country's progress post-independence. The speech should end on a positive note and slogans like "Jai Hind".
5. Use famous sayings and quotes
You can use famous sayings and quotes to begin and conclude the speech. Many freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi, Chandrashekhar Azad, Subhash Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, etc. have penned down several writings that can prove helpful to you. Always make sure that the quotes are apt to the context of the speech.
Rain is not only drops of water, Its the love of the sky for the earth. they never meet each other but sends love this way.
As flowers open with fresh scents in the mornings, so does the hands of God with new blessings.
Never be too PROUDY, never be too BOSSY, always remember you live in a planet that has GRAVITY. What goes up will definitely come down.
Dont make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up.
The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them.
We were all humans until:
Race diconnnected us, Religion separated us, Politics divided us, and Wealth classified us.
Amid the busy schedules, deadlines, emergencies and worries, our minds and bodies are trying to tell us something. Let’s pay attention to our mental and physical health. This Yoga Day let’s turn towards a life that is healthier, happier, fulfilling and more productive!
The life that you are living now, is also a dream of millions. So always be satisfied with your file. Be happy in every moment of life.
The first ever cordless phone was created by God. He named it "Prayer". It never looses its signal and you never have to recharge it. Use it everywhere.
Smile adds value to our face. Love adds value to our heart. Respect adds value to our behaviour and Friends and Family adds value to our life.
As the day ends put your worries to rest. Tomorrow is another day, filled with hope, potential and promise.
Life cannot be changed in a minute but decision taken in a minute changes everything in life. Always stay calm before you decide.
Do everything with a good heart and expect nothing in return and you will never be disappointed.
God is like Oxygen, you vant see him but you cant live without him.
The affection you get from others is a gift of your own Character.
Accept your Past without Regret. Handle your present with confidence and Face your Future without fear.
Immature people always want to win an argument even at the cost of a relationship. Mature people understand that it is always better to lose an argument and win a relationship.
Use your smile to change the world, don't let the world change your smile.
It is not important in life who is AHEAD of us Or who is BEHIND
What truly matters in life is who is WITH US
Humble people are always learning because they are open to correction.
You are strong when. You know your weaknesses. You are beautiful when you appreciate your flaws. You are wise when. You learn from your mistakes.
Time decides whom you meet in life, your heart decides whom you want in your life and Your behaviour decides who stays in your life.
Group One
1. Punctual - Teachers should be punctual first. Be timely in every activity. Assembly / Function — be ready.
2. Obedience - Teachers obeying the Principal, sharing the duties in class given by the teachers. Stories / Clipping /
Moral stories (Positive or negative)
Group Two
1. Attentive - By telling them interesting stories related to topics.
To ask questions related to the topics explained.
To explain the important terms or characters related to the topics.
To inculcate listening rather than talking.
2. Honesty - We should always praise a child when he is honest.
We should not threaten a child if he is wrong but he is honest.
Group Three
1. Interest - Enliven your subject and if one can inform the students how the matter being taught influences
them in a manner direct or indirect will generate interest. ( This is one way and there are numerous
others. Join the dots for the students. )
2. Discipline - before the class commence the students need to ensure that the class is presentable and teacher
friendly. Eg. The teacher's table needs to be clean with the chalk and duster in place. The teacher
needn’t nit-pick and optimize the time he has at his disposal.
Group Four
1. Confidence - Encouraging the students to express themselves. Telling the students to participate in different
activates and not to be criticized for their failure.
2. Studious - Detect the child’s interest and give him a task on the particular subject and also help him out to
complete it. Eg. A child may like drawing, so he should be encouraged in that field.
Sick
Relation and medicine plays
The same role in our life
Both care for us in pain
But
Medicines have expiry date
Whereas
Relationship never expires
Empathy
Empathy is the ability to understand the feelings of another person from their perspective. It is like putting yourself in the other person’s shoes. A student’s frustrations, anger, helplessness, indifference, fear and all other such emotions will become more apparent when you empathise with them. It is this skill, which makes students feel that you are able to identify with their problems without feeling sorry for them.
The skills associated with empathy are:
Verbal and Non-verbal Communication of Attentiveness
Communication of empathy would begin with being with the person totally, both physically and mentally. Attentiveness needs to be communicated both verbally and non-verbally so that the student is sure you are with the student.Words such as ‘go on’, ‘uhn-ahn’, ‘hmm’, along with head nods indicate verbal attentiveness. Verbal attentiveness puts the teacher in a position to listen carefully and also enhances the feeling of being understood.
Non-verbal attentiveness is communicated through facial expressions, hand gestures, body postures along with tone of voice. These are useful means of communicating any message.
Keeping Pace with the Student’s Mode of Experience
Another way of communicating empathy is to match or keep pace with the student’s way of interpreting or expressing an experience. Trying to keep pace with the student’s experiences through their words, voice tone, eye movements, etc. and responding in the same vein helps to communicate empathy.
Paying attention to the language and type of words frequently used by a student can be helpful in understanding what sensory modality is being used. For example, if one is frequently using expressions such as ‘I see what you mean’, ‘it shows’ or ‘it is clearly visible’, it indicates that the person is using visual modality in the expressions.
Salt vs Rice
Very beautifully written, so had to share!
If you were to cook 3 cups of rice, would you add 3 cups of salt to it? Certainly not!
So, in every preparation of Rice, the grains of Rice always outnumber the Salt,
yet a little Salt makes a huge difference / impact in the overall outcome.
In the room in which you currently are, look up at the ceiling...
What is the size of the bulb compared to the size of the room? It is probably a ratio of 1:5000. Yet, darkness flees the entire space once the small bulb is flipped on.
If I am the Salt of the earth, and the light of the world, then "little me" have the ability to make big things happen..
Sometimes, because we feel outnumbered or overwhelmed at the sheer magnitude of evil or wrong-doers, we then choose powerlessness, and decide to go with the flow, not standing up for what we believe is right.
LITTLE doesn't mean insignificant.
You are significant. Your presence should make a BIG difference. Stop waiting to be on the side of the majority. They may be the majority, but they are the trivial majority, and you are the impactful minority.
They are the RICE of the world, and you are the SALT of the world..
They are the ROOM and you are the LIGHT.
Make your influence felt!
Remember:
You are the world's seasoning, to make it beautiful...
So if we can just do the right seasoning to make even one life beautiful our life is worth living.
Onwards and Upwards! Be the SALT in someone's life today . . .
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I think teaching is the only job you have to work before you get to work, so you have to work to do at work. Then because I had no time at work to do work, I had to work after work to catch up on the work I didn’t do while at work.
Anyone making any decisions about schools should be required by law to work in a school for at least a week each year...
While being paid the same as an educator.
My Saturday was going pretty well until I realised it was Sunday.
10 Lessons I Want to Instill in My Kids...
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If you’re thankful, show it.
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If you love someone, tell them.
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If you’re wrong, fess up.
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If you’ve confused, ask questions.
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If you learn something, teach others.
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If you’re stuck, ask for help.
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If you make a mistake, apologize.
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If you trip, get back up.
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If someone needs help, help them.
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If you see wrong, take a stance.
How to write good.
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Avoid alliteration. Always.
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Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
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Avoid cliches like the plague. They’re old hat.
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Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
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Be more or less specific.
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Writers should never generalize.
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Seven: Be consistent!
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Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
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Who needs rhetorical questions?
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Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
Help others even when you know they can’t help you back.
Due to increased brain activity, people with higher intelligence tend to have a harder time falling asleep at night.
My mind is like an internet browser – 14 Tabs open, 2 are Frozen and i have no idea where the music is coming from.
If ever a parent asks how they can help their child succeed in school, please start with the BASIC:
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Proper sleep
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Proper nutrition
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Challenge them
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Limit technology use
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Every child should read a minimum of 30 min/day
Things I’m super good at
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Forgetting someone’s name 10 seconds after they tell me.
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Buying produce...and throwing it away two weeks later.
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Digging through the trash for the food box I just tossed, because i already forgot the directions.
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Making plans. And then immediately regretting making plans.
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Leaving laundry in the dryer until wrinkles. Then turning on the dryer to dewrinkle. Then forgetting it again.
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Calculate how much sleep I’ll get if I can just “fall asleep right now.”
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If speaking kindly to plants help them GROW imagine what speaking kindly to HUMANS can do.
There are bus driver shortages.
There are support staff shortages.
There are teacher shortages.
Stop telling educators to just quit if they are stressed – They are quitting. Kids are being affected.
We need to support educators and not shame them.
10 ways to build relationships with kids.
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Talk to them about non-school-related subjects.
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Let them teach you about their interests.
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Remember things about their lives.
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Share about your own life.
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Engage in activities with them.
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Tell hilarious (and even embarrassing_ stories.
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Share inspirational stories from your life.
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Do crazy things.
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Use their interests in your lessons and activities.
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Apologize when you mess up.
Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go.
What gives people POWER
Money = 20 out of 100
Status = 30 out of 100
Mitochondria = 100 out of 100
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