Activities

The school has a learning centre which organizes computer and multi-media sessions for children. It has a vast collection of interactive compact discs. The children are motivated to be computer...

• Buying expensive battery operated toys for the children that do not engage all the 5 senses of the child. Play time without such toys is very important as then children will be forced to use their imagination

Excessive television viewing; uses only the eyes and the ears...all other senses are dormant during television watching.also impacts the child's ability and growing stages of social development

• Parents do not realise the importance of crawling and buy expensive walkers instead; crawling is cross lateral movement of limbs and hence helps both sides of the brain to communicate.

• Often parents buy a packet of wafers and cold drinks during movie time so that the child keeps quiet and they can watch the movie peacefully; excessive salt and sugar intake leads to hyperactivity and irritability. (One box of popcorn equals to a week's salt content for your child!)

• If you beat; the child will learn to hit; if you shout the child will learn to yell; if you nag the child will learn to ignore; if you force the child will learn to rebel.

Nature deficit disorder is a condition where the parents are not letting the children interact enough with nature and allow them to spend time with video games and going to the mall which leads to hypertension; hyperactivity and attention disorders later in life. children need the calming and soothing qualities of nature.

• Regardless of how many times the child has to go to the bathroom on a day out; which is inconvenient to the parents; please ensure that the child keeps drinking water as there is no substitute for water. Water is a good source of oxygen and one of the key nutrients that the brain needs is oxygen When the child is throwing a tantrum; never hit the child; use a distraction mechanism instead and see how the mood changes completely. Threats and shaming release negative chemicals which are harmful to the brain of the child.

• Always insisting that the child speak up. Communication happens at two levels; talking and with body language...children know a 100 languages but we cut off 99 and teach them one to talk. Learn to reciprocate all gestures of your child.

• Its a common myth that crying is good for the baby's lungs. Its untrue...in the first one year; crying is very harmful for the emotional development of the child.

• Telling children to sit straight and not to fidget. children are naturally fidgety as the brain is making its connections in the first five years of life, it requires sensory impulses which come from the fingers and the toes, let them fidget!

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