Category: Parental Counseling
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Secret of Happiness: One Simple Rule
I was taught a very important rule about the secret of happiness and its relationship with expectations, the hard way, by my mother when I had returned back in 1995 from USA after having been there for over seven years. The lesson threw me on the ground, flat, and got the steam out of me.…
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How Language Acquisition is Made Difficult for Children: Eight Lessons from an Urdu Acquisition Case Study
How Language Acquisition is Made Difficult for Children: Eight Lessons from an Urdu Acquisition Case Study [The later part of this post would derive the lessons that I learned from my experience of how I learned Urdu which is described first. These lessons address the problems that our faulty methodologies are creating today in language…
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How Parental Judgments can Shatter a Child: Self Fulfilled Prophecies
How Parental Judgments can Shatter a Child: Self Fulfilled Prophecies It is often said when you are dealing with children: “Treat them as you want them to be, not how they are!” Basically the driving force while the child is growing and learning is the “Future Potential” of the child and not his “Current State”.…
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Which Field with Great Scope Should My Child Choose: There is always a room at the top
Which Field with Great Scope Should My Child Choose: There is always room at the top I often see parents coming to me for guidance about the field that their son/daughter should choose that would have scope in the future. They want to know the field which would be in great demand so that when…
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Charter of Children’s Recognition
A Charter of Children’s Recognition By Salman Asif Siddiqui Founder and director of Educational Resource Development Centre. director@erdconline.org Children learn best when they are respected, and this respect is every child’s right. If we take a look at the quality of experience that children undergo during their education, we will arrive at the conclusion that it is…
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Why My Child does not Sit and Concentrate?
My Child does not Sit and Concentrate Ah! We remember the good old days when there only used to be a single PTV broadcast channel and that too would start with “Baseerat” at 6pm and end with “Farman e Ilahi” at around 12. Kids like us will open the TV much before the start time…
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Who is educated! – Iqbal’s View
Iqbal on Education [1909] I unhesitatingly declare that I have greater respect for an illiterate shopkeeper, who earns his honest bread and has sufficient force in his arms to defend his wife and children in times of trouble than the brainy graduate of high culture, whose low timid voice betokens the dearth of soul in…
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School Discipline vs Prison Discipline
[Delivered as L2L Talk on 2011-05-08] What is the prison experience? The gate is heavily guarded. There is an eerie silence prevailing. There is a formal process of meeting the inmates or the officials. You can’t go any place you want. There are strict rules for movement. There is a meeting area where you need to go,…
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Are you really concerned about your child’s education
Worried about School Assessments (WASL) If you are really concerned about your child’s progress in education, what you should be doing before you start running towards the school complaining and then hiring expensive tutors. There are parents who get worked up quite frequently about their child’s performance in school. Every few weeks their blood pressure…