Session on DISCIPLINING [31/01/06, Kirthana]

Yesterday session was very interesting and it really woke up my senses in many different ways.

Discipline: How disciplined am I? Taking the course into consideration, am I disciplined towards the course? Realized, that I am disciplined however, not entirely.

The thought of........

How I am disciplined struck me as follows:

• Respect the property, my class friends & colleagues
• Respect others thoughts.
• Being sensitive to others needs and co-operate.
• Respect cell phone usage

How I am NOT disciplined?

• Always want to write my thoughts for the day on the session and keep postponing it.
• Sometimes late to class whatever maybe the circumstances.
• Learning and exploring loads of information and bringing into act, then sometimes...that bit 2% gets back to the same old habits.... questioning myself  WHY????  Answer: Not yet disciplined/ still operating from beliefs. 

Driving this back home....the following questions took stand; I think it is a good start:

• Are all the family members (parents-children) on the same platform?
• Are the house rules applicable and in agreement by all of us. Who formed them me, we or US?
• How can I as an adult and a mother participate in those rules?
• How sensitive can I be to my kids feelings and respect them?
• How can I help that discipline is not just under my nose and also at the end of the road?
• Am I paying attention to their needs?

Action Plan: I have requested my son's help so we can work on all of the above. We have planned it all out. I saw the excitement in my son that he is the "Big HELPER" and has been given the power to help mom out to achieve her goals.

Punishment: My thought was sometimes punishment is required to discipline a child.

Later then, popped the red light signal example. It is a great example indeed.

As said, RED is danger...it flagged my senses and woke me up..."Hello, Good Morning". .......

A step back from the whole situation and looking deeper into it and from where I am operating and what are my so-called "Beliefs". Now, I can operate with the awareness that the "Last Resort" comes too soon. I can and will wipe this "Last Resort" and shall follow through.

Learning: There is no policy on discipline. The best way is to be very relaxed, calm and this gives you the time to think better, abundant energy and ideas/choices to work with anyone, not only children.

It is simply redirecting and helping them

While driving back yesterday after the session, I was thinking about "Time-Out" and my version of it.

Just to clarify, the way we practice time-out at home is not by making the child go out of the house or making them sit in the corner, making them feel alone etc...

Our definition of Time-Out that we practice at home is a bit different and as follows:

--taking the child out of the situation,

--talking to them and letting them come out of the situation on their own (NO Suggestions)

-- a little hugh and encouragement

So, maybe I have termed it wrong all this while.....it is not a punishment, but a pointer to help the child to control his own emotions. I always was in this "BELIEF"...taking the child out of the situation was a punishment.

Thank you for bringing this to my knowledge and making me aware. Your thoughts most welcome.

 Just another quick note: when I read any article/GK books, your words speaks louder than my mind. I hear your voice ringing in my head....So KUDOS!   your job is done.

Regards, Kirthana

Getting up (Medha Pawar )

Thank you all

I am really impressed with yesterday’s discussion and the learning

I have experience for my sons getting up issues

Yesterday I have told to my son and daughter that I am going to keep alarm for both of you and you have to get up yourself

And my son told to my daughter Avani if I don’t hear the alarm can you weak me up she said yes and morning she was awake before alarm

She waited till the alarm ring she got up and woke up my son Shubham also. Day started with good mood my mood as well as my son’s mood now part of discipline which is very imp. (I should not go back to my habit of awaking them)

Thank you

Medha

creativity

just summing up today's session for you

 

Observation - Imagination - Composition

 

or

 

Gather - Play - Create/ Do

 

To enhance OBSERVATION - use all your five senses

Assignment - eat one fruit today and write in as much detail you experience of doing so.

 

To enhance IMAGINATION - put constraints

Assignment - Create many variations of a flower out of newspaper - by putting in as many constraints as you can

 

To enhance COMPOSITION - try to give specific meaning to your creation - the more specific your meaning (objective) is the more specific your composition will be

Assignment - Create design for curtains using many different objectives

 

MOST IMP - HAVE FUN

 

Ratnesh

 

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Habits of Mind (Sudha)

Just as an afterthought I was wondering how much does trust have to with
expectations.When we talked about trusting the water to come in the tap when
we open it or the example that Punitha gave about hammering a nail onto the
wall and trusting the painting not to fall down , is it not about
"expectations". Even when we share a secret with a friend and don't want it
to be shared .We feel hurt when the expectation is not met.

We have always been told never expect or keep your expectations low and
you'll be happier.Leaves me wondering.

Sudha

The stick which refused to come down

And then we finally realised its all about reflection

learnings from observing children at session at geniekids (Anjana)

No amount of reading my course material gave me this much insight and exposure, as much as being associated with geniekids for hardly two months.

I sincerely take this opportunity to convey my heartfelt gratitude to you and others.

Also thank you, to give me the real feel of a virtual classroom. Since it was the first experience for me, i felt lack of human touch and human flavour. But to cut down on the geographical distances yes it is still a great idea.

Just to re brief about me learnings today (as I was feeling quite nervous at that time while asked for...)

Learnings about children:
1. They are very energetic and bubbly all the times
2. Being curious is their nature
3. Children are great self learners.

Learnings about the environment:
1. No high funda ergonomics required, in fact, a huge empty hall with a lot of empty space was just enough
2. A clean and a comfortable hall essential

Learnings about the teaching..
(With the example of words to be taught today were perseverance, gratitude.) I observed that
1. Mini did not give any ready made solutions, in fact, instigated the children themselves to find out
2. Then she created awareness among the children by using these words appropriately as and when required
3. Thereby reinforcing and giving it to them.

Last but not the least Learning about myself...
1. To break all my beliefs about being rigid and to be more flexible
2. To stop stepping in and allowing them to let go
3. To instigate children to find their own answers to their curiosity.

To conclude, I thank you all a lot.

Anjana Gupta

My Feelings (Anjana)

These were my feelings after Thursdays session on "Habits of Mind".

IntrapersonaI
I am feeling not so good, head heavy, agitated, confused, disappointed, depressed, not so happy, not so satisfied and what not??? after today's session.

I am becoming aware of my feelings, and trying to figure out what was today's class all about?? and my head is just about to explode...and I suggested to myself I need to sleep over my feelings and continue tomorrow...

Heavy headed :-(

Interpersonal
I conveyed my feelings to Ratnesh and to my spouse.
Their responses respectively,


"i cannot ascertain what caused certain feelings in you
though i am available to LISTEN if you feel like talking


What i am going to suggest may sound funny or atrocious - but give it a shot:

whatever are your feelings - ACCEPT them by saying "they are for my good"
all of these
head heavy, agitated, confused, disappointed, depressed, not so happy, not so satisfied
are for MY GOOD"

." I am happy for you(which did make me upset) as this tells me, about you having a brain(if at all) that has started working"....(here I accepted that it was for my GOOD).
That itself was good enough to shed a lot of my feelings

My Learning:

and by morning i could see a clear picture of myself in the "consciously incompetent" stage. This experience has made me sensitive, leading to the realization that this is what children go through, and decided henceforth not to be harsh on my children as far as their learning goes....

Anjana (8TTT)
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Learning Styles

Hope by now each one of you would have become aware of your own learning style and how that makes you unique.
To some extent our own peculiarities, habits - both good and bad are a direct influence of *learning styles*
for example - i may think i am disorganised - but this being disorganised comes from being kinesthetic. Hence the trick is not to blame myself
rather find out how a visual does it - use their strategies and become more organised.
we will discuss this more in the next session - but i hope you get the idea.
ratnesh

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