On 15th July 2023, St Joseph's School (CBSE) organised a session for the parents of Class 3 to 5. Positive parenting session is a session which gives inputs and suggestions to the parents for helping them to become better at understanding their ward and help them positively develop as good human beings.
"The golden rule of parenting is to do unto your child as you wish your parents had done unto you" - Louis Heart
The session began by Ms Ashita welcoming the gathering and invoking God's blessings on the resource person and the parents to gain more insight on the topics discussed today.
Ms Suman introduced the resource person of the day Mr Muralidhar Koteshwar who is the CEO of Uplad and SimpliTrain, Chief Advisor at Pod.Ai, Director of Connecting the Dots, Founding Secretary of the Advanced Computing Society of India.
Mr Muralidhar said that children are born with honesty, commitment, questioning skills but they become adulterated and become adults. He said that we need to let our children be comfortable. He also gave 3 F's for the parents to positively teach the child good discipline Firm, Fair and Fun.
Mr Muralidhar said that we are the ones who feel uncomfortable when discipline the child outside because we are embarrassed about what others think but we need to allow the children to be comfortable but be firm, fair and fun.
Keep the children healthy use the Japanese technique by sitting in the Vajarasana position and eat fresh, emotional health also is a very important aspect to keep their emotions in check and rest is also important to keep the child healthy.
Academics of the child is also a very important aspect so that the teachers and parents can contribute together for the development of the child with challenges. We have to allow the children to be creative, challenged and fearless. Connect knowledge with passion so that we can give the children an opportunity to think and learn.
The third point that he addressed was positivity. He explained that we need to reduce the Don’ts which are said to children constantly.
He concluded his session by teaching the parents a few techniques to breathe properly
Saying thank you is more than good manners Ms Reema proposed the vote of thanks and thanked the audience, resource person and all the staff who were involved in the organisation of the program.
Name: Arjun
Name of Child: Aryan
Class: 4
Section: A Feedback:
Session was helpful and learnt a lot from the session. We do follow a few tips that he had given us but we have learnt a lot more on how we can improve and how we react to the child when he needs something.
Name: Madhan
Name of Child: Sarah and Sulaiman
Class: 4
Section: A
Feedback:
Session was helpful and learnt a lot from the session. We also had a lot of feedback on our parenting style as we practice some of the methods but we needed to revive a few other parenting methods. Being patient is the most important aspect of parenting style as it is a very useful tip.
Name: Prabhakaran Rajendran
Name of Child: Infantina and Santina Perpetua
Class: 3 & 1
Section D & C
This is one of the best sessions in the last four years, this was informative and useful for every parents. All the parents must follow few techniques at least which is that informative and clear message. Thank you for this arrangements and thank you to the management as well and teachers