Any normal child would be able to eat on his own without spilling by 3 years. Even the children of uneducated, less privileged and poor parents, who do not get the required attention and care, learn to be independent. What is the reason for this child who is the only son of educated, caring and protective parents, not independent?
Ancient Nalanda University
Ancient Nalanda University is one of the centres of learning in ancient India. Students all over the world came to Nalanda in search of higher knowledge. It is regarded as the first University in the recorded history of the world. The University of Paris, Bologna and Oxford were much recent and were founded in the 12th Century after the destruction of Nalanda.
How did Tigers get Striped?
Do you know an animal that has black stripes on its orange body? Yes, it is a tiger, but tigers did not have stripes always. Would you like to know how tigers got stripes?
Sensitive Period for Order
At 2 years children are sensitive to the outer order and internalise. If that order is disturbed, children become restless. Once the children cross three years, they do not seem bothered by the “Order” much because they are no more sensitive to the order.
Save the Innocence
A study conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development showed that 53.22% of children face one or more forms of sexual abuse. That means one in every two children faces sexual abuse in India. World Health Organization declared that India has the World’s largest number of sexually abused children and statistically speaking, every 155th minute one child below16 years is raped, at every 13th hour a child below 10 years and concluded that one in every 10 children is sexually abused at any point of time.
Nothing is more Precious than Life!
This is the photo of Mouna, a beautiful, intelligent and young girl of 16, who hanged herself. She was the second one I knew to commit suicide in 2009. The first one was my niece Chaitra. While Mouna hanged herself Chaitra drank an insecticide. Both killed themselves for their Love!
Dr Maria Montessori – the Columbus
Montessori showed the world the treasure hidden in the child. In his book ‘Dr. Maria Montessori –Her Life and Work’ E.M. Standing compares Dr Maria Montessori to Columbus and says, “While Columbus discovered a world without, Dr Maria Montessori discovered the world within.” The world discovered by Dr Maria Montessori was a new world of children, which was different from the world that was known earlier.