01/11/2024
If you wear good clothes, you are a show off, if you wear simple clothes you are poor, if you speak your mind you are arrogant, if you don’t speak you are coward, whatever we do the world has something to say.
What should we as adults, parents and educators understand about students ?
We were once a student and we know what it feels like to be a student. But are we really thinking that way now that we are adults.
We are talking about how students and children have problems ( behaviour, academics, mental health issues, economic issues, issues at home, etc ) but have we invested time and given time to them. Talking about their academics for sometime and giving up is not going to help them we must help them understand and invest time. Expecting change the next day is not how it works… work with them for longer duration… children require time and us as an adult do too…
Be confidential about a child’s problem. We don’t want to talk to someone who talks to everyone about our problem. Adults want to solve and share in a confidential space and to the right person example we share problems to only those who listens and gives us hope.
But is this the same with children, we as adults, parents and educator talk about a child’s problem in front of the whole crowd and many join in too… where is confidentiality?
Don’t you think children deserve confidentiality as well?
Our reading and studying methods are not that good yet we want our children to do it, our mistakes, we hide it better but a child’s mistake never gets that reinforcement it deserves. Our intentions are always good and directed towards the good of our children but the question here is are our methods good enough.
Children at this day and age are advanced than we were in our past but we are still relentlessly defending that old system because we grew in that, but will this help today’s generation… a simple analogy is the use of tech and social media…. This generation understands these better but old generation are using it too which actually shows that we have technically moved but our notion of educating our child has remained there only…
I am writing this as my own reflection but this can also be your as well…