23 Aug
2021
How Preparing Your Children Today For 21st Century Skills Will Help Them For Future Jobs That Do Not Exist Yet
The workplace dynamic is changing faster than ever before in the 4th industrial revolution and thanks to the incredible advancements being made by automation aided by artificial intelligence, this rate of change will only increase with the passage of time.Many skills that had been considered valuable a decade ago, are considered obsolete today and there is no doubt that many valuable skills of today will be obsolete in a few years. We are now preparing for jobs that didn’t even exist before.
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2021
Why Is It Important To Encourage Our Kids To Build Leadership Skills
It is one trait that made most of the greatest kings, generals, CEOs and country heads stand out among the rest. Napolean, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi or Narendra Modi – the first distinctive thing you note about them is their leadership skills. It is this skill that makes millions of people believe in them and follow them.Is our education system apt for creating leaders? I don’t think so. A school is often a place where you listen to someone speak and you listen quietly, so how are leadership skills honed here? Time and again, it has been shown that if you allow kids to express themselves openly, it helps them add skills that are important to understand leadership.In this context, the time they spend at extra-curricular activities and how they are treated at home become very important. Extra-curricular activities such as dramatics, impromptu elocution and extempore are things one must encourage kids to be a part of. Standing on a stage, delivering lines with confidence – nothing boosts their leadership lessons better at an early age.
Continue Reading16 Aug
2021
New Age Parenting: You Need To Learn With Your Child
When I was traveling from Bangalore to Bhubaneswar on a business-cum-pleasure trip, I overheard awoman co-passenger pointing out to the Airport Control Tower and telling her 5 or 6-year-old daughter,"Look, there is the lighthouse!" I was quite shocked to hear this, but the little girl was happy and keptrepeating the word ‘lighthouse’ while pointing to the Control Tower and asking her mother a few morefollow-on questions whose answers were not exactly correct throughout most of the conversation.By this time, I was totally flabbergasted. Why would you do that to your own child? Why would youteach them incorrect or partially correct things? In today’s world, when knowledge is freely available insuch abundance, your carelessness as a parent might lead to two kinds of problems:
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