SUMMER TIME – GALA TIME
Come vacations and the students slip into festive mood. It’s a time for which they wait all the year through. They make elaborate plans to ensure a gala time. From excursions to summer camps, visiting grand parents to kids alone parties, they have everything on their agenda. Summer Vacations is a time for throwing the heavy back packs into cub boards and chill out.
Apart from fun and frolic, students can also utilize their time simultaneously in planning for their future. The aim of education is not limited to book learning and knowledge. It covers a wider spectrum. As teachers, we should strive to make complete individuals rather than just doctors and engineers. Parents should also realise that every child can not be a topper. The top slot can accommodate only one winner. Therefore rather than stressing your child with studies, summer vacations are also a time to pursue various hidden talents that every child has in him. Dance classes, aerobics, yoga, singing, skating, swimming, acting, are various activities that bring out the best in a child. It gives an expression to their personality. Therefore, summer time can be best utilised in such endeavours. It is absolutely necessary for the parents to give their kids the freedom to chase their dreams in vacations. Unlike other nations, we are a nation where a child is evaluated only on his percentages and grades. In this mad race for the best scores for their children, parents knowingly subvert their hidden talents. Probably, this is the reason why an Indian is still not a world leader in fine arts, sports etc. Educational institutions should utilize the summer vacation time to nurture these hidden skills in the students.
Summer vacations are also a perfect time to work on your weaknesses. Students have ample time at their discretion to improvise their writing and speaking skills. Short courses on language speaking are a boon. Students should spend at least one hour daily in reading good literature. If not books, newspapers always come handy and can be read anywhere. It serves a dual purpose of developing your reading skills and also makes to updated with the current happenings around you.
So let your kid unleash the hidden talent in him and allow him the freedom to be. Who knows if he can be the Picasso or Einstein of tomorrow?
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Well said! I couldn't agree more...during a recent discussion with a play school admin, which was churning out its "attraction pts" to justify what they are doing is right, my spouse replied..."we want our child to come here, spend some time, interact and have fun...our intentiion is not to turn our toddler into an Einstein or Isaac overnite..." gosh! what's wrong with these shcool walas?? what values/education can they impart to our children when their outlook to educational institues is that of a "cash cow" and not beyond...and we parents are no less..more often than not we catch parents saying .."oh! our kid is in such and such school.." Let our kids be just that...kids only and not crush their childhood under heavy burden of studies only OR expectations to yield/excel...
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ReplyDeleteI recently read an article in DNA named Mission Admission and I was shocked at the state of affairs. The phenomenal pressure which toddlers have to undergo in order to get admission in a prestigious school is a bane for them. Parents are going to the extent of sending their 2-3 olds for coaching classes. Can you believe that??? At a time when the centre is talking about relieving the pressure by scrapping class X boards, am amazed noone is taking into account the plight of our pre schoolers.
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