About an year and a half ago, I was attending my child's
annual day at his school with a friend whose son too attended the same school. They
were showing a presentation listing out English Literature books they intended
to introduce in primary grades. I was impressed to see the likes of R K Laxman,
Roald Dahl, and Ruskin Bond in primary section itself and commented something
about it to my friend. Surprisingly, he asked me whether the school will take
care of everything about the studies or we parents would have to step-in as well.
The other common remark one would keep hearing during
regular dinner table discussions is about some xyz child being "very gifted"
and how intelligence is genetic implying hereby it is as readily bequeathed from parents
to children as is our jaw-line.
As much I was disappointed by the ignorance of my friend
about the role of parents in a child's education, I am equally saddened by the "gifted"
argument which in a way silences any investigation as to why a child might be showing
the evidence of intelligence which we have typically attributed either to the quirk
of fate or to the line of succession.
I don't blame them - even I was the part of this school of
thought like the rest of the planet but luckily for me, I stopped being
ignorant as soon as I became a father.
This blog intends to play the role of a myth buster about several
misconceptions which we have harboured about the learning potential of kids. It will
also provide some insight on how a proactive parental involvement in upbringing
can change the course of life of our kids. And most importantly, it will lay out
a structure, resources, ideas for teaching which parents can readily use with their children.
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