Gaurav Bhandari's Blog

Unusual times pose unusual challenges. For grown up, the challenges revolve around employment, surviving the hardships and keeping oneself healthy to be employed productively in near future. However, for children, the demands bring many challenges which were previously unheard of. Lets discuss some of them: 1. Social isolation - Being used to meeting friends in school and locality is a thing of past. Lockdown has forced children to interact only with their family members. With no friend to see of hear, children may feel irritated. Lack of balance can cause frustration. What is needed is careful management of their mood, keeping them engaged in a variety of activities and seeing that they are busy yet happy. 2. Academic accountability - Children know that they have all the time in the world. They also know that they can use this time well to study and cover their syllabus before time. But they still won't do that. They may be tempted to move towards distractions for long per...

What is Assessment? Parents must know everything about their children. Parents must understand the strengths and weaknesses of their children. Parents can take decisions regarding their children's future when they have complete details of their children. As you can understand from the above, Assessment is the process of knowing a person in detail. The details then help to create a profile of the individual to help others know the subject well. In case of a child, it is mostly the parents who would like to be informed. Assessment thus is also a process of seeking additional help to know a child better. A good assessment process will get many important facts out. It will shed light on those aspects which were hitherto unknown to the parent. The process also provides actionable insights on what needs to be done for the future. It is also an enabling tool for successful build up of a future and there is nothing better than securing a child's future by right mix of knowledg...

Real development for children must have some check marks, targets - some things that we can measure and decide whether our children are progressing or not. Let us look at some aspects which we need to keep in our mind to decide the growth of our children. 1. Academic Excellence - This is the first and extremely important point that decides a large part of our future. Being good in academics is not a chance event, it is a choice. Most people do not understand this aspect very clearly hence there is a need to stress on it. If we make correct choices and decide consciously to be good in academics, we will be good. Being competent in this aspect gives an individual lots of choices in life. Those choices empower us and help us grow. Therefore, academic excellence must be put in a child's mind by guardians and family members. 2. Personality Development - An individual must stand out in  a crowd. There has to be a lot of confidence inside children, they must feel good about ...

There are so many blogs, articles and pieces of information all over internet. In fact, the sea of knowledge is so vast that it is very difficult to find value, quality and right content that will help reader in his / her aim. While starting this blog, it is also my aim to enable the readers who may be parents, grandparents or just well meaning citizens, to find accurate pieces of information for their own children or those of their relatives and friends. So lets start this journey with good intent, thought and a desire to create value and help impact many lives in this world. If we become successful in this, a lot would be because of your love, support and good wishes all throughout. So stay tuned and connected. We begin now ! Gaurav Bhandari