Tech-Oriented

Social media is changing the way we communicate. By extension, it’s also changing the way we get our information and how we learn. Rather than banning social media from the classroom, many secondary schools are reaching out to students on Twitter, Facebook and a host of other services — and it is surprisingly working out.

Social media, which is looked as a mayhem that struck this world, is actually helping the students to market their very own projects and assignments that they have worked hard on, to showcase on social media. This is like free publicity done, which could help them to come into limelight if and when they are spotted by eminent people who are their target audience.

Also, social websites provide a great space of individual surveys and other research programs that are conducted by students themselves. Earlier, social media was only being used as a means of extending one’s networking to far and wide places, irrespective of whether you know or don’t know the other person, but these days they are being used a means of propagating one’s own message to the world.

We can never forget the Jasmine Revolution which took off on the Facebook website and led to the downfall of the Tunisian President, who was dictating over the people of Tunisia and was draining the resources for his own benefit and how people were emulating themselves because of frustration and no job and no food to feed to their dependants.

The Jasmine revolution is a mark in the books of history that how a social networking website, led to the great Tunisian revolution and the downfall of Ben Ali. These days, propagating one’s own industrious purpose online is quite a less expensive affair and the word spreads fast, it’s something like wildfire that soon spreads the entire jungle.

However like everything, there is a negative and positive aspect to everything, it applies to social websites as well. Like wildfire, it has the ability to spread false news, thus resulting in some action that is absolutely not required in that scenario. For example: two days ago there was a verdict that came out ruled by the Madras High Court. The judgement spoke of commitment after sexual act. It said if a bachelor has completed 21 years of age and an unmarried woman 18 years, they have acquired the freedom of choice guaranteed by the Constitution. "Consequently, if any couple choose to consummate their sexual cravings, then that act becomes a total commitment with adherence to all consequences that may follow, except on certain exceptional considerations."

But the message that spread across was that Madras High Court ordered that any couple who has had sexual relationship is considered married. Thus we should always be careful in what to post and where.

Minu Aravind is a self motivated writer and blogger with an ability to develop unique content , is associated with IGCSE Schools in bangalore. She is a strong advocate of high-grade education, and focuses to develop blogs and articles in the field of education, parenting, child development and so on.

Succumbing to Peer Pressure

A well said quote which goes as, “Friends and books should be few and good”, it surely does matter a lot when one has to choose the group where they prefer to be seen with by the outsiders. When we are toddlers and we enter, the hallowed portals of a school, as children we always seem to live in the fear of every stranger that we come across when we enter the premise and cry because every face is new and equally horrifying to us, especially that of the teachers, who seem to appear as the “Bogey Man” of the many horror stories narrated by our mom’s.

So amongst that huge crowd when we find the mild looking person, who is of our age, tiny and terrified, we tend to get along well with that kid and slowly similar terrified looking kids join the group and by the end of a week, we don’t even realise that we are all best buddies. But, there is one stark difference between toddlerhood friendship and friendship in youth days. Youngsters mostly tend to be the one who like to go along with the crowd, i.e. the ones who are popular and loved by the teachers, considered to be cool etc.

It is not bad to be with them, but what we should keep in mind is whether the group of friends we choose are the real friends or just “friends for benefit”. Real friends who can vouch for you whenever you need their help are rare to find, but if one does then the person surely has hit the jackpot.

Peer pressure has often led to serious offensive acts that have taken place in schools and colleges and in certain events have led to the youngster’s death. The usual cases reported on incidents that were a result of peer pressure includes that of drug abuse, alcohol abuse, getting caught in sex racket cases and recently the trends of the rave parties, which is taking the reputation of the present generation youngsters down the drains.

To be responsible for one’s own actions is a very responsible attitude that is present in very few people today. Unleashing one’s own freedom rights is good, but good to the extent where you are not violating others freedom. However, very few people do wish to take advice and hence are the ones who mostly get into bigger troubles in life. Before life gives you a bigger jolt, wake up and be responsible citizens.

Minu Aravind is a self-motivated writer and blogger with an ability to develop unique content, is associated with Top ten IGCSE Schools in Bangalore. She is a strong advocate of high-grade education, and focuses to develop blogs and articles in the field of education, parenting, and child development and so on.

Aiming at World Peace

India is the third most populated country in the world and according to the Global Peace Index, which shows India to be in the top 20 violent countries in the world. With the advent of recent events taking place showing the growing rate of criminal cases in our country and especially highlighted area of Delhi, which is the Capital of India. Criminal offences are becoming frequent occurrence’s, especially against women and children, like rape, sexual abuse, road harassment, molestation, dowry deaths, female infanticide, etc. 

It is high time we stayed quiet, took the blows of our chauvinistic male dominated society and felt ashamed of anything that happened with us, considering it was our fault. It’s time we voiced our opinions about the injustice hurled, our government which is failing at every level to provide a safe and secured country should be forced to take stern action against all such incidences so that it serves as a good lesson for every human being who takes the laws and life of an innocent for granted. 

These instances call for serious actions from the schools as well as from parents. The schools should incorporate martial arts training classes for its student, to enable with them self-defence skills and other ways of keeping themselves away from danger. Use of pepper sprays, red chilli powder, sharp objects and other such equipment’s are used by girls these days while travelling alone, it serves as a means of protection from strangers. But what about small kids, who are unable to express themselves mostly and are the worst affected because of their vulnerability. In such case, parents and schools should be quick to implement rules and other forms of martial arts to teach the little one to fight back when it is necessary to do so.

Especially, schools should have counselling sessions for children to make these small kids aware of the horrible activities that they are liable to face someday in their lives. Also, counsellors can also help any traumatised child to come out of any such dreadful event that has already happened. The government of India should be strict with those schools who misbehave inhumanly to the young traumatized victims. Isolation or sympathy is the last thing that the victims of any such case want. Care should be taken to have a thorough profile check of all the employees done who are recruited newly. As most cases of child molestation and harassment comes from schools. Let us take initiatives in making our country a better place to live in, without being under constant threat or fear of extinction.

Minu Aravind is a self-motivated writer and blogger with an ability to develop unique content , is associated with admissions in Hyderabad. She is a strong advocate of high-grade education, and focuses to develop blogs and articles in the field of education, parenting, child development and so on.

Career Counselling

The profession of career counselling can be dated back to history, to the times of Plato and Aristotle. Kids are usually very fuzzy in their head when it comes to choosing a career path for them. Not every child is focused and very prioritized in their lives, some want to take it easy till the time comes, when they actually start panicking about what to do with their lives.

However, an early career counselling session in their lives could actually help them to understand what are they professional likes or dislikes. It is quite an ongoing trend that is noticed these days in all the schools, be it big or small to hire a professional counsellor who can help your child to realise his or her strong and weak points and help them to work on their strong attributes to make it much stronger.

Many times children are so burdened with their parent’s hopes and expectations that it drives them to take up poor career choices in their lives for which they keep regretting all their life. But it is parents responsibility as well to make your child aware of your ambitions for the child, not simply push the child towards fulfilling your own ambitions in life.

In career counselling sessions, the counsellors usually take the child through several personality development sessions accompanied with aptitude tests that are carried out in most corporate companies. The counsellors job is to help the child prioritize its goals and also help the child to realize its ability and what stream does it choose to take up.

And for parents, the advice is to stop assuming that a particular stream is inferior to the others in terms of scope and opportunities. Rather, engineering, medicine, and MBA are the heavy traffic professional courses, in which students end up paying lakhs and lakhs and finally end up being nowhere at all.

Such instances of parental pressure driven education has caused several children to commit suicide. Let us not become weary in demanding excess from our kids, and bringing forth reasons for our own grief. Parents should be motivating and understanding in this crucial transitional phase of their child’s life, being obstinate in demanding unreasonable things can bring downfall in one’s own life.

Therefore, along with career counsellors, the parents also should take up initiatives to ensure adequate support to their wards for a happy and prosperous future that they achieve by following their dreams.

Minu Aravind is a self-motivated writer and blogger with an ability to develop unique content , is associated with Admission Enquiry’s in hyderabad. She is a strong advocate of high-grade education, and focuses to develop blogs and articles in the field of education, parenting, child development and so on.