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Skills development for kids is an issue which concerns every parent!

Times have changed and so the parenting ways.

Nowadays every parent desires best for their kids and want to empower their kids with all those skills which can help them to climb the ladder of life successfully and happily.

MegaSkills for babies is an interesting book to provide parents knowledge regarding those skills. Authors of the books say in the book  that

” Megaskills are our engine of learning and must be taught to kids to build their ability to learn.Aim to teach these 12 mega skills is to create positive learners.These skills are-

Confidence, Motivation, Effort, Initiative, Common Sense, Focus, Respect, Caring, Motivation, Responsibility, Teamwork, Preservance.

Skills help child become more aware of their own behaviour, and attitudes. They also provide oppurtunities for enjoyable learning, creativity, drawing, problem solving.”

What role parents can play, how to provide the caring and connectedness environment in home, what is it that enables every child to achieve in school and in life, all this you can learn after going through this book.

If you are a concerned parent you will rush to grab this book in nearby book store.After All we love our kids! Happy Parenting.

Quotations are the expressions by others.Some expressions by great leaders become famous quotations as it motivates you to change your heart and improve upon yourself. Womenlines proudly starts this new category of quotation of the week, with aim to motivate the fellow womenfolk to improve upon their lives and themselves. In such a busy life routine we almost forget the importance of such values and emotions in our heart. 

Mother Teressa  needs no introduction.Her acts of selfless service to humankind touched people of all strata. She was a darling of the masses; a messiah in the garb of a nun. Let us gain from these Mother Teresa quotes-·                                

Love
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
God
I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I don’t know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, “How many good things have you done in your life?” Rather He will ask, “How much love did you put into what you did?“

These quotes are really thought provoking. Home is the right place to spread love around and if every member of the family puts real love in  what he is doing then every home will convert into heaven!

Straits Times reported very interesting news on April 16, “Digital Media may affect morality”!

“It’s astonishing but study results,  going to be published next week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Journals found that emotions related to our sense of morality, such as admiration and compassion, take much longer to form that our visceral reactions to pain or physical suffering.For some kinds of thoughts, especially moral decision-making about other people’s social and pshycological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and reflection. USC(University of Southern California) study showed that volunteers needed six to eight seconds to fully respond to compelling, real life stories used to induce admiration or compassion for physical or social pain, and the feelings are more prolonged.  If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about the people’s psychological states and that would have implications for your morality”

Social networking sites like orkut and facebook, virtual games, online news, Twitter, -thanks to all these platforms we are living in a virtual world most of the time and that can be dangerous. Its very necessary to have social experiences to have a strong moral character for individuals. Internet is such a medium that can lead to addiction and suddenly one day you will realize that you are living in a vitual world around and this will lead to have a wrong impact on your personality. Take it as a warning, we are humans after all and need to have physical presence and interaction around. Virtually its good to be in touch with all those whom we cannot meet. But don’t get involved yourself so much start living in that world only. 

Womenfolk, especially those are working should make sure that they don’t lose their precious emotions in hands of digital media. Is it happening with you that after listening to some sad story you are least bothered, or the next door neighbour’s illness hardly effects you. May be you are too much into your own virtual world that you are not aware about the happenings of the real world around.  Take it a s a warning and come out of your virtual world.

 Make sure you are not missing your tea time breaks with your dear friend for a giggle and to share each other secrets!

Government of India has developed an ‘Online Grievance Forum http://pgportal.gov.in/. Can you imagine this is happening in INDIA? Yes we are improving, may be with slow pace but definitely we are changing for the better!

The govt wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government officials or departments like Passport Office, Electricity board, BSNL/MTNL, Railways etc.
Many of us say that these things don’t work in India. Its common scene in group discussions, whether its a family discussion, or friends one, in fact the employee groups themselves discuss the laid back nature of the Indian government . There are so many things to complain about but nobody to listen to those complains. If somebody tries to reach the concerned authority for the grievance redress, he has to cross so many steps of formalities that in end his patience leaves him alone. 

Grievance redress site will connect the common man straight to the concerned authority and thus will consume less time in decision making from the part of government  The challenge is to create awareness regarding the presence of this site. Indian government should promote this site in much larger scale. 

The penetration of the internet among urban Indians stands at 9% now, assuming the total urban population at 336 million. The marketing  research http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/indias-internet-users-reach-30-million-637/    

reflects that Internet usage in India is growing with steady pace. But we can say that the population percentage who is using Internet is having basic education and thus can be concerned about the government actions regarding some areas in their surroundings.

The need of the hour is to take that first step. 

Indian womenfolk, what are you waiting for? You are not happy with the things happening around you. Damaged roads, limited supply of electricity, corrupt officials, red tap ism, their are so many things which upset you as it affects the quality of your family life. 

Take this liberty to question the government on various issues which are troubling you!
Couple of months back, the Faridabad Municipal Corporation laid new roads in his area and the residents were very happy about it. But 2 weeks later, BSNL dug up the newly laid roads to install new cables which annoyed all the residents. A resident used the above listed grievance forum to highlight his concern. To his surprise, BSNL and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad were served a show cause notice and the guy received a copy of the notice in one week. Government has asked the MC and BSNL about the goof up as it’s clear that both the government departments were not in sync at all.

So use this grievance forum and educate others who don’t know about this facility. This way we can at least raise our concerns instead of just talking about the ‘System’ in India.
Invite your friends to contribute for many such happenings.