Stay Fit and Be Healthy

The health status of children relates to physical, emotional and spiritual factors that frequently determine their quality of life and relationship to the world as they grow up. Improving these areas is the responsibility of parents and others who guide children in their growth period and who encourage kids to in extracurricular activities to make sure they develop relationship with family and friends. 

The quality amount of time they should keep for studies and play is getting reduced these days. We need to go into deep analysis of factors which pave the way for this situation and also should come up with certain solution so that we can witness a healthy and fit tomorrow. School also plays a major role here. 

Eat healthy: Unhealthy eating habits are the major reason for most of the health related issues among the young generation. The sweetened and carbonated drinks, butter and cheese, chocolates in various forms, fried vegetables, chicken and meat, ice creams and all work in very harmful manner if they are consumed in a large or frequent amount. 

But this does not mean to cut down all the food items children like. Parents should make sure that all their favorite foods are served to them but in a healthy ways. How can we do this? Instead of excess butter and cheese use olive oil in food and reduce the amount of chocolate and its related food like cakes, ice creams and baked ones to special occasions and parties and outings. Fried food can be changed to boil food which good taste and flavor. 

Bring them out of Television: Children spend their whole time sitting in front of TV and the habit makes them mere couch potatoes. The physical activity they get while playing is going for a toss here.Proper timetable should be kept for children so that this will turn to be a habit later on. There should be ample time for play, physical exercise, study and proper sleeping hours.

Be Active: being inactive is the main reason for children to be introvert and less confident. Each child will interested towards different activities like some will be interested in playing games, some will be interested in writing and some will be interested in arts and so on. So as parent if we encourage them more into it, children tend to be active all the time. There are many schools especially many international schools in India who concentrate on health and fitness of the kids. 

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For example school like Oakridge the best international school in Bangalore focus mainly on the health, physical and mental fitness of the kids through various workshops and learning practices. Many factors come into concern when it comes to the health and fitness of children. Make fruits and vegetables their snacks and physical exercise and games a daily activity. Create awareness in them that health is wealth.      

The Bonding between Music and Kids

Ancient Greek philosopher Plato said: “Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight the imagination and charm and cheerfulness to life and to everything.” Music brings joy and makes us feel happy at any time. Researches have proved that other than bringing happiness music plays a powerful role in the cognitive development of children. Music inspires creativity, imagination and self expression. It also builds self esteem and is a good exercise to strengthen the memory skills of children. 

Various studies have proven that musical training can help brain improve the ability to distinguish between the rapidly changing sound which is normally considered to be the key skill in understanding and using language.  Music education in schools will help children develop their reading and listening skills and improve their concentration level through this. If the children are encouraged to learn any instrumental music it will help them to enhance their basic engineering skills and also advance the hand-eye coordination. 

So for this purpose schools have introduced various music classes and training as part of curriculum to develop the inherent talents of kids. There are many schools in India who focus on the cognitive development of children and since music proved to be the best tool to enhance this talent, they have incorporated music as a part of their syllabus. 

Group music lessons help children develop interest towards the idea of team play. It makes them identify the possibilities of better opportunity to showcase talent while working in a group. Not only that group music lessons can make children recognize the happiness one can have while being with others and also will get to know hike in creative ladder when they work together. This is the main reason we insist the inculcation of music into curriculum. Schools like Oakridge international school in Hyderabad which is considered to be the largest international school in India have taken this initiative to incorporate music into their syllabus and also they organize several workshops with proficient musicians to teach their children. 

The continuous music practice and performances help to build discipline and self confidence in children. While going through various stages of learning music, the child also learns commitment and value of things. Music is a means of self expression and it is a non verbal language which offers an alternative means of expression to children who find it difficult to communicate through speech.       

The Genius inside Every Child

Albert Einstein believes to stimulate creativity; one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition. What is a childlike desire? If anyone asks this question to me I have only one answer that is children are not bothered about the world around them and the eyes looking at them. They concentrate on what they want to do and do it in a way which is viable for them no matter what others say. And I believe this is how any creativity takes birth.

 

Every child is born with some extra ordinary talents and few of them manage to keep the spirit up and others just go with the flow. Since we are talking about the young geniuses, let’s focus on that part more. It is even said that children possess the quality of sixth sense and they could feel the level of love and affection of each person approaching them. That could be a reason they feel comfortable with some people and uncomfortable with others. When they grow up the five senses start working and slowly they leave aside the sixth sense. 

The artistic talent every kid shows at young age is incomparable. The way they think, manipulate, showcase and put forward their talent makes them special. If we observe any child we can see that he/she will never be conscious of frightened while facing a crowd. They will be completely out of the world and only eager to showcase their flair. This is the first attitude one loses when they grow up. And probably there ends the creativity in one too.

 

To keep up the good spirit child need motivation and family, friends and school can take up the challenge. Fortunately there are many schools in Bangalore particularly International schools who dedicate time for the extracurricular activities of their students’ especially young ones so that they do not lose the track of it. 

There are schools like Oakridge International School in Bangalore which stand ahead with their quality of education and care for children’s capabilities. The school conducts several competitions, workshops, experiential learning programs and all to bring out the genius in them and enable them to keep it all through life. Inborn talents are precious gifts each child own and enhancing them is our responsibility. Enhancement is nothing but the push factor which encourages the kid to go forth with their creativity and extra ordinary endowments. And if each one us can ensure this gift to our young ones there will not be any scarcity for ingenuity. 

    

Are Social Media Good for Kids?

Social media networking sites are ruling the internet world these days. Youth and children are so much into it that they don’t bother to spend their entire time in front of the sites. It is up to us to decide that whether this is good or bad. But one thing I have to say that people feel connected with each other all the time no matter in whichever part of the world they are. 

 

Being connected with friends is the major attracting point for any young one to get into the world of such networks. But after a point the addiction it creates, is something we should worry about especially in the case of school going students. Other than the previous times children have access to any kind of media at any time due to the developments and innovations in the field of technology. 

Though the positive factors exist, we have to discuss about the negative side so that there shall be a balance in the system. The over influence of social media will lead to situations where the entire study and play system of a kid will get disturbed. The ample time which they should dedicate to studies and other activities are coming down and it will create a generation who are mere mouse potato. The availability of en number of games and various other options in the social media networks are more attracting to kids than the connectivity with friends so proper awareness is the only thing we can do as elders. 

Other than awareness counseling schools can take measures which can divert the interest of the students. So for that purpose the curriculum should be molded to grab the child’s attention.  There are many schools in India who focus to make interesting at the same time more interactive curriculum. 

Especially the boarding schools in India are adopting this methodology as they need to give more care and consideration to factors like this because children are staying away from home. If they feel any kind of lesser attention towards them the possible next step is finding ways to engage themselves into something else. 

To avoid such situations schools like Oakridge Oakrdige International School in Vizag takes care of particular needs of each child. Not only this they have incorporated many programs to their curriculum so that the complete attention of a child is on their studies and other activities. By putting forward the issues concerned with this matter, I am not denying the fact that it also helps the kids to be updated all the time. More over children have become vey technology friendly due to the influence of such media. Social media networking is good up to level but when it becomes a part of life or may be more than that we need to pause for while, think and then continue.   

 

The Little Einstein Stays Next Door

We are surrounded with a world of science where our actions, reactions, circumstances, beliefs, thoughts and everything has some direct or indirect connection with science. Proven science is what we study in school but there many scientific facts which are not completely proven even though we believe in it. That is the kind of relationship exists between any living thing and science.

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Amazingly the new generation seems to be more inclined towards science and technology than the prior generation. If someone asks me about my ‘experiments with science’, I have a very bad relationship with science though I know the basics of it. Other than the basic science of my existence every other science is a rocket science for me. But when I look at the young ones I could feel the drastic difference even in their thinking and attitude towards science and technology and it gives a promising feeling towards a brighter future.

The development in the field of technology helped a lot in bringing this change. Children have access to which ever media they want to look into for better understanding of things. Even the toughest and boring science theories are now easy to understand with the assistance of a computer and internet. They have en number of choice these days which we never had and they can develop their own methodology to understand the complex math calculations and unending formulas in chemistry. Since they have such gifted talent and availability of technology we should encourage them to go ahead with their crazy ideas and experiments. After all every big theories and inventions came from such crazy ideas of our prior geniuses.

What I believe is family can give the support to child so than he/she can achieve their goal. Provide an atmosphere where they can do whatever they want and keep a mind set to listen and see whatever they creating. But other than family their school can do much more as it will become easy for them to understand what they are doing since they study the theories in classrooms. Fortunately in our country we can find several educational institutions especially top international schools in India that provide facilities for children to nurture in the field they would like to. 

 

If we take an example like Oakridge International School in Hyderabad, the school dedicate much of its time to encourage those talents in each kid which will benefit the entire world tomorrow. Especially when the kid is more inclined to science they offer various workshops and learning programs to widen the knowledge are of the kid and help him chose his way. If all of us can promise this to each child there will be a brighter future waiting for them and us too.