Guidance Sheet: Prepare your Toddler for Playschool

Playschool marks the beginning of a new phase in a toddler's life. Use these tips from Tree House founder, Rajesh Bhatia to prepare your toddler for playschool. (HIGHLIGHT TEXT)

A toddler venturing out into the big world out results in a mixed reaction from parents. Playschool forms the first line of contact for a toddler to space outside his cozy and protected home. Parents experience a great deal of emotions—from feeling proud, happy, apprehensive,  and excited, and more—when kids hit this milestone Well, these emotions are normal.

Playschools are important as they help kids to take new steps in their lives such as making new friends, learning new skills, and gaining confidence and a sense of independence. However, this transition ride isn’t smooth for every child and the experience might vary from one kid to another. However, you can prevent your kid from experiencing bad emotions and experiences form this change. Parents play an instrumental role in preparing their kids for the worst or the best. This can be achieved with simple activities.

Parents can help to socialize while performing daily activities with them such as reading, playing, and exploring together. There are umpteen of activities such as talking to your kid about his hobby, filling the color book, playing the board games, reading books together, and more. Chances are, you might be already preparing your kid for their playschool unknowingly. Read along to discover four of the tried and tested methods to prep your kids for their playschools:

1. Pretend Play: Help your kid to get acquainted with the new place by pretend play, you can perform the role of a teacher while asking your kid to be a student, or by playing the roles of a co-student you can teach an important lesson about peer-relationship. These simple but effective practices will allow your child to get clear insights about what to expect and he would fretless on the D-day.

2. Games: Teach your kid about the importance of self-help lessons to prepare them for playschools. Teach him how to put down his backpack or fasten his shoes or unpacking his lunch box. This allows him to be self-reliant thus preventing him from feeling helpless without you around to help him.

3. Tell him your playschool story: Kids love stories, especially when they come out of their parents. Tell your kid your ‘first day at playschool’ story to encourage them. You can tell them about how you overcome your fear, open up to the teacher, or made your first friend at your playschool. This can potentially help your kid to take his mind off the nervousness.

4. Saying goodbye: The method can ease the jitters of separation from your kid's mind on his first day at playschool. Parents can stay back with their kids to help them adjust to the new place. You can explore the new place with your kid, helping him with a few things such as meeting other children.

Mindfulness: An art to adapt from early childhood

Merriam-Webster defines mindfulness as the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis. In other words, it simply means, living in the moment.

Research suggests that mindfulness if practiced from early life, can bring success and development in later life. This has made learning mindfulness an important art to learn in early life. It has been learned across the world for centuries, however, it wasn't integrated with early education until recently. This approach equips youth with crucial tools, empowering them to behave responsibly and act sensibly. A unique aspect that sets this particular art different from others is that the learning doesn't bind itself to classroom walls. It can be learned almost everywhere and almost at any time. Mindfulness empowers children with excellent self-regulation skills, improved attention to details, increased well-being and resilience to odd situations, as well as promotes kindness and compassion for self and people around.

Teachers can play an instrumental role when it comes to encouraging raw minds to adopt good habits. Therefore, they should put the active effort into conditioning young minds towards adopting mindfulness. Teachers can integrate mindfulness into a child's daily activities in his environment that can help him taking charge of his behavior and actions, increase his focus and engagement, and promote a feeling of ownership and empowerment in him. The idea of integrating mindfulness in a child means to make it second nature of the child, a part of his personality.

The tools used to gain mindfulness aren’t expensive, however, the result you get is worth million dollars. Mindfulness support healthy and quality relationship, be it child to child or child to adult relationships. Read along to know a few techniques that can help your child to adopt mindfulness:

1. Deep Breaths - How do you feel under stress and pressure? Your breathing gets shallow, doesn’t it? How do you react to it? By taking deep breaths! Children need to learn the same technique to cope up with stress. This is the reason why teachers need to teach children the technique of deep breathing whenever they feel stressed about something. With consistent practice, children will be able to PAUSE, BREATHE, CALM, and THINK better when frustrated.

2. Active Listening - Unlike visual representation, listening to sounds need active effort. As simple as it sounds, it takes a great deal of effort from a child to gain active learning skills. However, it is very crucial to gain control over thoughts and gain mindfulness about his environment. By training a child to listen with intent, he will naturally be calm, engage in peaceful listening, and gain awareness about his surroundings.

3. The Glitter Jar - It is easier to hold children’s attention with visual tools. For instance, a glitter jar, ask a child under stress to hold a jar filled with water and glitter. Now ask him to shake it. Ask him what he sees? Apparently, he will say the glitters are moving in random directions. Now ask him to stop shaking the jar, as the glitters start settling down the child will have a sense of stability. This method use sensor (glitters) to calm down the child’s mind. And condition him to be aware of his thoughts and the environment.

According to Tree House founder, Rajesh Bhatia, “Conditioning young minds to be more aware of their surroundings help them to control their thoughts and take charge of their actions. This encourages children to gain stability in their lives.”

Learning Social Skills at Preschools

Watching adults around them and replicating what they see, forms the first social skills that toddlers learn in their lives. This makes parenting business more than meeting your child’s needs. Parents are the first teachers who deck-up their kids with several social skills before they step into a classroom. Upon entering the educational set-up, kids further enhance their social skills with their teachers and classmates. Meanwhile, teachers can play an instrumental role in the personality building of kids, by engaging them with good activities such as reading. This habit helps kids to read stories and relate the situations laid out in books to real life. It helps the child to develop an analytical bent of mind. A child's exposure to the outside world starts the day he gets into a preschool. It is the time when the kids learn to separate from their parents at drop off time, forms new associations.

Preschools are the first formal educational set-up that your child steps in for learning. This place forms the foremost learning space that facilitates early childhood education to children before they kick-start their compulsory education at primary schools. Fun makes learning interesting, therefore preschool teachers are expected to teach social skills through playful methods. Engaging mediums such as stories, songs, puppets, and games can be used to teach kids about communication and interaction. Among the many skills that kids learn at preschool—social skills are the first learning that a kid learns at an early age. Adjusting at a news place, getting in contact with kids of the same age, listening to them, connecting with them are few of the things that can be enlisted under social skills. Few of the social skills that a kid learn are listed below -

Communication -

The child learns to effortlessly connect and communicate with others. This is the time when he starts making eye contact with the person speaking to him, he learns to greet-say please, thank you, and sorry. They learn different communication etiquettes.

Listening -

This skill takes a greater deal to adapt to personality. While we are born with listening ability, it takes a conscious effort to listen and understand what others are saying. This is especially important for extroverts who are habitual for speaking.

Expressing Right -

An expression is a medium through which you tell others how you are feeling. For kids, it is important for them to learn to put a name to what they are feeling. It drives them to voice out their opinion instead of turning to other methods.

Teamwork -

By engaging kids in a group activity. teachers can encourage their pupils to interact with one another. It helps children to function in a team as a participant, helping them to decide their role in a group activity.

Empathy -

Compassion is important for human beings. It helps them to maintain a healthy relationship with others. It is highly important for kids to learn that laughing on others while they are in pain is a bad act and that they need to treat others with much care.

Every child is unique, similarly, each one of them has a special way of learning social skills. A teacher can play a distinguishing role by understanding the learning capabilities of their pupils and working individually on them. A varied approach may be required to reach some of them. But what they all need from a teacher is a reassurance that the classroom is a safe space where they are loved and valued.

In the words of Rajesh Bhatia, founder ofTreehouse, “Classroom learning is important, it hugely shapes an individual’s personality and drives them in the right direction as they age. For kids, social skills get them ready to be a healthy and functional part of society.”

5 TIPS TO STUDY SMART

Being a student is a tedious job. From school to coaching classes to other competitive tuition classes to outperform your academics, a student takes the entire day to accentuate his scorecard. Then to avail extracurricular learning, the weekends are occupied as well. Also, these days, every individual has their own social and personal life. A number of assignments, an evaluation test, and examinations tighten up the grip. Altogether, we all have 168 hours in a week, but to utilize it accordingly and productively is the actual win. A plethora of research paper, journals have been come up with the acute research upon the time management and also the strategies to endorse more in short duration of time.

The trend of taking several coaching class is dominating every section of society. There is a section of society who actually cannot cope up with the pseudo-high-level standard set by the elites. In order to sustain yourself in this curriculum, the student must learn the best dos and don't to fly high in their life. Below is some not so common strategy which every student must engulf to learn quickly and utilize the time efficiently.

1. Don't Multitask: In the quest of gaining more, often people gain nill. Multitasking makes you distracted and less productive. Also, this data is conclusive. The self-proclaimed multi-tasker is not the actual multi-tasker but on an average, they work comparatively less. It is important that when you make a mind to study a lesson, don't involve yourself in multitasking of checking twitter and listening to music while studying.

2. Endorse handwritten notes rather than a laptop: It is scientifically proven, when you yourself reframe your sentences and take notes accordingly of the lecture, it stays with you for an ample amount of time. Undoubtedly, the hegemony of laptops has made the art of writing in a submissive domain.

3. Take a break: Taking a break for 45 minutes has reportedly resulted in the most productive learning. Go for a timer or stopwatch to help you remind the most quintessential break. Go for a light walk or tune into some music. Music therapy works great and also helps in revamping the learned lesson. 

4. Treat yourself: Set a target before you begin your study. Once achieved, treat yourself by ordering a pizza or watch a movie. Remember, don't take this as a habit where you begin your treat episodes with decreasing the intensity of your learning. 

5. Optimize your process not the outcome: The fundamental mantra of every successful student is, they completely focus on the learning process, keeping aside the outcome. Not-so-successful students manage to set performance goals, while successful students manage to set learning goals. Essential and most empirical difference between both.

According to Rajesh Bhatia, founder of Tree House, “Working hard is essential but working hard in the right direction is quintessential.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

ACTIVATE YOUR KIDS EMPIRICAL THINKING THIS SUMMER

It is that time of the year, where the teachers constantly think about the long vacation which will eventually lead to the forgotten lessons by the students. Meanwhile, the parents are engaged in preparing a vacation to involve their kids in physically active and mentally empirical activities during the long summer days. Pledge this year to give them the most enthusiastic summer holiday with innumerable amusement and a legit utilization of holiday by keeping their mind working all day. To assist the parents in this vacation with a challenge of transforming this vacation into legit productive, here are the 5 most crucial strategical technique to help your kid progress in the best way possible with maintaining the moral discipline and etiquette. 

1. Invite your kid to the kitchen and teach them how to cook and the entire anatomy of cooking: The measurement, safety, ingredients and of course the taste. Also, acknowledge them about the cooking paradigm of different ere like Mughals, postcolonial, a pre-colonial and ancient method of cooking. Take out your cooking book from the shelf and introduce them to the atmosphere of the kitchen in the most amusing way possible. Make sure you are not making this activity monotonous.

2. It is often more preferable to go for a walk rather than going for a drive. Through your light walk, you can introduce your kids to the apt reality with a practical illustration. For instance, about light, speed, and nature. It will not only enhance the diameter of your kid analytical thinking but will comprehend the idea of life and living.

3. Staple together pieces of plain paper or use a notebook to encourage your child to make a cartoon flip book. Kids draw a chain of cartoons and simulate motion as they "flip" through the pages. (Note that the first image in the series must be at the bottom of the stack of pages, and the illustrations should progress from bottom to top.) Also, sketching or drawing stimulates one idea of their understanding for the family. The similar thing which was pictured in a blockbuster movie Taare Zameen Par, where the protagonist depicted his separation from the family in his scrapbook. 

4. Go for a family picnic near your home and also invite your kid's mate for the enjoyment purpose. Ask your kid to organize the entire trip by himself or herself. This will give them an idea of managerial capability. With managing finance and also picnic activity, the kid will develop the learning of arithmetic calculations and also social behavior. 

5. Kids rarely have the opportunity to design their rooms. Now, involve them in the room renovation. Ask them the fundamental question that what else you do apart of sleeping in the room. If your kid is a video game enthusiast, arrange your room according to that. Else, the room must define whose room is this. When your kid approaches his personal interest it results in wonders an also it depicts the idea of his/her personality.

According to Treehouse MD Rajesh Bhatia, “The ample time must be utilized completely, parents must take the concrete and entertaining steps to engage their kids to develop empirical thinking.”

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5 STEPS FOR BENEFICIAL PARENTING

Becoming a parent is a skeptical phase for the majority of the couple. It is a phase where the number of responsibilities engulfs an individual. Parenting is absolutely not a cake walk and it demands the number of struggle, understanding and plenty of patience. Raising a child is different for every parent as every child is special in their own form, so there is no full-fledged syllabus to follow for the perfect upbringing.

                                                                        

Here are five child-rearing tips you must follow in order to nourish your child completely.

1. BOOST YOUR CHILD SELF- ESTEEM - One must keep in their mind that child imitates their parents. Your every move is absorbed by them. Be it your body language, compliments, and aggression. Your compliments affect them completely in building up their self-esteem. Giving a small responsibility; builds a sense of confidence in them. These mere gestures in a regular life affect immensely in the overall nourishment of a child.  

2. PRIORITIES THE COMMUNICATION  - In a fast driven world we often miss out the fact that the kid running in the home is not 'indoctrinated' of the facts, values, and morals. It is our duty to communicate with them and make them understand every aspect of livelihood and humanity. The legit education begins from home than elsewhere. If your kid questions, answer them in their way. Never compel them to stop asking the question as it "irritates" you.  Bring up the discussions and motivate them to speak out their mind and clear all their hesitations.

3. ENDORSE FLEXIBLE PARENTING STYLE - Having unrealistic expectation from your child is an absolute indeterminate attitude of parents. Try to consider your 2-year-old who is everyday fluctuating with his /her activity. As your kid will grow, it is your duty to adapt and change their behavior and activity. Becoming a restrictive parent is not the solution but to be a flexible one will apparently cure the concern.

4. LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY - In a due course of your kid upbringing always make an impact that no matter if your kid engages in any mistake, you are there to make them correct and support them. A merely altered behavior of you affects the child immensely.  

5. BE A GOOD ROLE MODEL - An ideal role model often fluctuates for a kid.  In their childhood, they follow their favorite cartoon religiously. As they grow they follow the different role model of their interest. But, when it comes to parents, kid endorses most of the activity of their parents even without intentions. Make sure how you get the fire at your kids when you are angry. your kid will react the same when they are in the similar condition.

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How to score more than 95% Marks in Board Exams?

Board Exams have been started and this is a peak time where you need to pay attention to your subjects.

During #BoardExams Students must utilize their mind in a better way. Students need to adopt smart study technique, go through the entire syllabus first to understand it and then make a plan which will be your smart learning.

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Few Tips to score good marks in CBSE board exam:

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