Children do not remember your lesson plan. They remember how you made them feel on a bad day. I learned this at Yuvashakti Model School in 2019. A Class 6 boy, Rohan, tore his notebook in anger. I was ready to scold. My senior teacher, Meera Ma’am, stopped me. She sat with him, shared her...Read More

We are raising kids who have never seen a world without Google. That is the information revolution. And it is both a gift and a test. We see Class 4 students explaining black holes from a YouTube short. I also see Class 9 students unable to write one paragraph without spellcheck. Information is everywhere. Understanding...Read More

Every parent wants their child to do well in school. That is not the problem. The problem is when ‘doing well’ becomes synonymous only with marks, and when everything else a child is developing quietly gets overlooked. Here are five things that, over a lifetime, shape a child’s success and happiness far more than their...Read More