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CIRCLES BY ME is a Special Education Clinic that empowers parents of children with disabilities by assisting them in advocating and obtaining appropriate educational services for their children. Our vision is to improve the quality of children’s lives by providing the resources for accurate diagnosis and comprehensive holistic treatment of a wide variety of developmental disorders. Allowing them t
02/12/2021
Do you have a narcissist in your life?
HOW to PROTECT YOURSELF When Communicating With a NARCISSIST | Dr. Ramani on Women of Impact This episode is sponsored by Glo.By now, you’re probably proficient at spotting narcissistic behaviors in people and relationships you are involved with. You...
05/11/2021
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02/03/2021
Dyslexic student who couldn't read until aged 13 achieves first-class honours degree William Carter, 22, says having dyslexia made him into the person he is today.
DRIFTING KITES......by Twinkle Khanna- is a must read for all parents......
10 am: I'm enjoying Sundaybreakfast with the whole family. We're digging into aloo parathas with home-made ghee and as I am despairing at the horrific number of calories being consumed, the phone rings and we get some terrible news. A family friend has lost her young son. The young man, in his early 20s, had gone to America to attend a friend's wedding- left a su***de note on Facebook and killed himself before anyone could reach him.
I cannot even begin to imagine what his mother is going through. There is no pain greater than losing a child. You start worrying about these tiny beings from even before they are born! You worry about their health, their education, their careers, their spouses, their children...... Worrying, but not really believing that one unlucky day your greatest fear may actually come true.
God forbid, you lose a child to an accident or an illness and heartbroken, you console yourself that you did your best, it's perhaps God's will, he has gone to a better place; But when your child decides that the life he has been given, the life where everything he knows is what you have taught him, is not worth living, how do you live with that?!
How do you stop blaming yourself? How do you go on?!
We teach our children to study hard, to strive to succeed but do we teach them that it's okay to fail? That life is about accepting yourself? That there is no stigma in seeking help? Our Indian culture is based on worshipping our parents. We grow up listening to words like respect, obedience and tradition. Can we not add the words communication, unconditional love and support to this?
6.30 pm: I am standing in the balcony, sipping some coffee and looking at the sunset. The children have gone down to play on the beach. I spot my son. He is standing on the sand, right at the edge of the ocean and is flying a blue kite.
The kite goes high and then swings low till it almost seems to fall into the water and all I want to say to him is that soon he will see that life is just like flying a kite. Sometimes you have to leave it loose, sometimes you have to hold on tight, sometimes your kite will fly effortlessly, sometimes you will not be able to control it and even when you are struggling to keep it afloat and the string is cutting into your hand, don't let go.
The wind will change in your favour once again, my son. Just don't let go........
24/01/2020
14/11/2019
Allow your relationships to feel free and unfettered. It's not about control, it’s about companionship.
07/11/2019
https://www.facebook.com/147338175306962/posts/3426118137428933/?substory_index=0
As parents, we do everything we can to prevent our children from experiencing any pain in life, but the reality is, this form of protection hinders their ability to evolve into their own person. We must all go through these obstacles in life. It is where we learn the most about ourselves and the world around us.
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A student studying in Russia says:
The highest score for most of the exams in Russia is 5.
If a student does not answer any question and returns back his exam paper blank, with no question answered, he gets 2 out of 5.
In my first days at the University of Moscow, I did not know about this system and I was surprised and asked Dr. Theodor Medraev: "Is this fair that a student did not answer any question and you give him 2 out of 5? Why not give him a zero ?
Isn't that the right way ?"
He answered:
"How can we give a Human Being a zero ?
How can we give him a zero to someone who was getting up at 7 am to attend all the lectures ?
How can we give him a zero since he got up in this cold weather, and used public transport and reached to do the exam in time, and tried to solve the questions ?
How can we give him a zero for the nights he used to study and spent his money on pens and notebooks and bought a computer for studying ?
How can we give him a zero when he left all other life styles and pursued his studies ?
Here my son, we do not give a zero to a student just because he did not know the answer.
We at least try to respect the fact that this is a Human Being, and he is having a brain, and he tried.
Because this result which we give, is not just for the questions in the exam paper, it is also about showing appreciation and respect to the fact that this is a Human Being and deserves to have a score."
Truly I cried and did not know how to respond.
There I knew my value as a Human Being.
Zeros can actually decrease motivation on students, and can quickly destroy them and make them stop caring about their studies altogether.
Once a zero score has been put in the grade book, they need no longer care about that subject and they may assume that, there’s nothing they can do about it.
Today I tell this story as a message to our teachers, so as to change this shabby system of education which we have in our country.
16/09/2019
Consciousness is a commitment to unearthing the emotional and conditioned legacies of your mind. We’ve all inherited so much baggage from culture, unconscious parents, and their ancestors. As a result, we grow into these legacies without ever questioning how do they work for me? Who am I in all of this? What is my truth?
We live off of a prescriptive checklist and believe that if we don’t follow it, we are somehow lesser than. When we do this with a child who comes into the world with a throbbing spirit and a desire to figure it out, we have already ruined their chance to do so by handing them our checklist that outlines beauty, success, failure, life, and love. We place the pressure on them to follow our way or be an outcast.
Conscious parenting is about NOT handing over that prescriptive checklist. To do so, we have to deconstruct our own emotional legacies and find our truth so that we can then unleash it in our child.
What has conscious parenting taught you about YOURSELF?
21/07/2020