To love - To respect - To parent

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IQ, EQ, SQ, AQ

....According to psychologists, there are four types of intelligence:

1) Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
2) Emotional Quotient (EQ)
3) Social Quotient (SQ)
4) Adversity Quotient (AQ)

1. Intelligence Quotient (IQ): this is the measure of your comprehension ability", solve maths; memorize things and recall subject matters.

2. Emotional Quotient (EQ): this is the measure of your ability to maintain peace with others; keep to time; be responsible; be honest; respect boundaries; be humble, genuine and considerate.

3. Social Quotient (SQ):
This is the measure of your ability to build a network of friends and maintain it over a long period of time.

People that have higher EQ and SQ tend to go farther in life than those with high IQ but low EQ and SQ. Most schools capitalize in improving IQ level while EQ and SQ are played down.

A man of high IQ can end up being employed by a man of high EQ and SQ even though he has an average IQ.

Your EQ represents your character; your SQ represents your charisma. Give in to habits that will improve these three Qs but more especially your EQ and SQ.

EQ and SQ make one manage better than the other.

Pls don't teach children only to have higher IQ , but also to have higher EQ and SQ.

Now there is a 4th one :
A new paradigm

4. The Adversity Quotient (AQ):
The measure of your ability to go through a rough patch in life and come out without losing your mind.
AQ determines who will give up in face of troubles and may abandon their families.
In the current context of Corona, many professionally successful people are going thru bouts of Depression. Because they haven't seen and thus are unprepared for Adversity.

To parents:
Expose children to other areas of life than academic. They should adore manual work, sport and art .

Develop their EQ, SQ and AQ. They should become multifaceted human beings able to do things independently of the parents.

Finally,

do not prepare the road for the children. Prepare the children for the road.

With love from VocaBOOM!
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Dear parents,

I hope this finds you and your family healthy and safe.

These are unprecedented times, not seen before in our or our parents' lifetimes. While we know that the human race will jointly tide over this global challenge, we also know that it will call upon immense resources from all of us, governments and citizens alike. While governments will do all they can to minimize the pandemic and ensure the availability of essentials, we will have to muster all our patience, calm and love to tide through the period.

We have no idea when things will get better. This does lead to anxious thoughts and disorientation as we have lost what we believed to be a normal life.

My family and I are following all the necessary safety protocols and being responsible. I am sure you are too.

I pray for the elderly in our families and hope that they stay safe when times get bad.

Stay strong and purposeful. Do help network with your local society/apartment complex/communities to be available to assist elders living alone in their needs. Adopt an elder, so that when you go out for your rations, you get them theirs too.

When we share smiles and live for others who need our assistance, we have fewer negative thoughts. Positive thoughts developed by feeling useful to others help reduce stress and we all know that reduced stress levels improve immunity levels.

We have to also accept that things are presently out of our control and we should just focus on seeing each day through, keeping our families peacefully engaged at home.

May you and your families stay physically, mentally and emotionally healthy and strong.

Lots to love to all of you


Preeti Gupta
Founder, VocaBOOM
Author - Your Sailboat Needs No Engine

P.S. - Should anyone want to connect with soothing and calming words during this period of overwhelm, you may follow yoursailboatneedsnoengine or preetishares on Instagram, Your Sailboat Needs No Engine or Preeti Gupta on Facebook or download the book Your Sailboat Needs No Engine from amazon.in.

Peace and love to all...

A parent - the first and lifelong teacher needs to be far-sighted and sound in her teachings.

“I am from the village of Parra in Goa, hence we are called Parrikars. My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the farmers would organise a watermelon-eating contest at the end of the harvest season in May. All the kids would be invited to eat as many watermelons as they wanted. Years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study engineering. I went back to my village after 6.5 years. I went to the market looking for watermelons. They were all gone. The ones that were there were so small.

I went to see the farmer who hosted the watermelon-eating contest. His son had taken over. He would host the contest but there was a difference. When the older farmer gave us watermelons to eat he would ask us to spit out the seeds into a bowl. We were told not to bite into the seeds. He was collecting the seeds for his next crop. We were unpaid child laborers, actually. He kept his best watermelons for the contest and he got the best seeds which would yield even bigger watermelons the next year. His son, when he took over, realized that the larger watermelons would fetch more money in the market so he sold the larger ones and kept the smaller ones for the contest. The next year, the watermelons were smaller, the year later even small. In watermelons the generation is one year. In seven years, Parra’s best watermelons were finished.

In humans, generations change after 25 years. It will take us 200 years to figure what we were doing wrong while educating our children. Unless we employ our best to train the next generation, this is what can happen to us. We must attract the best into teaching profession."

- Manohar Parrikar

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