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Category Archives: Personal journeys & experiences
The Day My Baby Taught Me How To Parent Him
When my eldest son was born, I was unskilled at mothering. I had been until then, under the misconception that…
A Journey called Home
I think for a long time, before D was born, I was under a misconception that staying all day at…
The power of open schooling
Here is the transcript of my speech given at the National Institute of Open Schooling’s 25th Anniversary celebrations at Chennai,…
Healing Relationships, Healing Mother Earth
Twenty one years ago, a princess of the flowers was born to me. My friend gazed down upon the little…
Reached Somewhere … Going Nowhere
We too had to decide what we will take of school and what we could leave behind for good or …
Suddenly there was no need to get up early and rush for school and that meant no need to forcefully get into bed early too. Suddenly an unknown fear began gripping at me. What are my children’s interests that I can fan?
What is Play?
When crawling around as tigers stops being fun, we might break into an impromptu jig. She loves singing and dancing and music is almost always present. She has her favorites, to which we sing and dance together, with gay abandon.
Zero is Beautiful: Teaching Mathematics as if People Mattered
When our daughter saw that the numeral 10 comprised a 1 and a 0 she flung herself upon a chair and cried. We were taken aback, unprepared for the blow this dealt to her understanding of number and how she would struggle to make sense of it.
Say NO to fireworks but not to fire experiments!
My son Megh, eight and a half, and I were lying on the floor and talking of fireworks, during the…
How do I explain Unschooling to skeptics?
When I decided to present a paper for The Homeschool Conference (http://www.homeschoolconference.com), I was not sure what would be the…