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ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO MAKE MISTAKES

Allow Your Children to Make Mistakes

We all learn from our mistakes. Every situation is an opportunity for growth. Obviously there are certain mistakes you want to protect your kids from, such as playing on a busy road or sticking their hand on a hot burner. But in other situations,they’ll learn more if left to discover the consequences themselves.

Consider these points to help you be more patient and accepting of your children’s mistakes:

1. Children are children. Because of a child’s age, coordination, lack of judgment, or simplified thought processes, kids are not going to be able to perform a task the way a teen or adult can.

2. Children are works in progress. Because children are developing, learning and growing every day, each new day provides them with opportunities for success.

3. Sometimes when children err, they have a natural tendency to want to try again. Because this behavior shows perseverance and great effort, parents can reinforce these positive characteristics by simply allowing them to try the task again.

4. Learning from trial and error is still learning. If you observe your child trying a task over and over again without frustration, he’s probably learning something on each try.

5. There are other things more important than doing a job “right.” So what if, when your child is done making the bed, the bedspread is crooked? If you consider what matters most, you’ll come up with some characteristics your child demonstrates that you can be proud of.

6. Your child’s self-esteem depends on your reactions. How you react when your child makes a misstep shows him what you think and believe about him.

• When it comes to a child’s self-esteem, allowing him to err at something while at the same time, accepting him the way he is, sends powerful messages of unconditional acceptance and love to your child.

8. Avoid generating or expressing strong emotions related to your child’s blunder.It’s wise to remain neutral and objective when speaking to a child about his performance of a task.
Making it okay for your child to err will go a long way toward solidifying his sense of self and building his self-esteem.

If you consider and apply these ideas when parenting, you and your child will be more comfortable when they experience errors. Because of your approach, they’ll embrace life with optimism, perseverance and feelings of confidence.

Photo: Allow Your Children to Make Mistakes

ELOCUTION COMPETITION FOR CLASS – X

An Elocution competition was held among the students of Class 10. The children spoke on varied topics like truthfulness, corruption, saving the girl child, facebook, involvement in social service among others. The participants were eloquent and spoke with a lot of conviction on their chosen topic. They identified problems and offered solutions that were convincing besides being enlightening. It was a delight to hear the young minds talk at length on views that were hitherto hidden.

Here are the names of the participants:

S.R.NO.	NAME OF STUDENT	CLASS
1	BHAKTI SHAH	10-A
2	SANYA DODA	10-A
3	SAUMYA SHAH	10-A
4	DHAGASH SHAH	10-B
5	SHANAY SHAH	10-B
6	AVICHAL DANI	10-C
7	PRIYANSHI BRAHMBHATT	10-C
8	ALISHA AKHANI	10-D
9	AVISHI JARIWALA	10-D
10	URJAVI SHAH	10-D

As the students performed extremely well there was a tie for first and third position. Here are the results:

Alisha Akhani and Shanay Shah shared the first position.

Second position was bagged by Priyanshi Brahmbhatt.

On the third position were Dhagash Shah and Bhakti Shah.

All participants were given certificates.

Activity on Components of Food

Class 6 students had a class activity on ‘Components of Food’. They presented and described different food items, the ingredients, components and also the nutritive value of particular food items.

The activity helped the students to get a hands on experience of the kitchen in their class and also imbibed the importance of a ‘balanced diet’.

CREATIVE HANDS

Painting by Hrishitva Patel

BOLO AUR SEEKHO

An Activity on Speaking Skills in Hindi was conducted in Class IX D.

The students were asked to converse on two recent topics – 1. Uttarakhand ki Tabaahi and 2. Telegraph Service Tujhe Salaam

The enlightening conversation which had students role playing, debating and sharing matured (and a few innocent views) was worth listening to indeed.

This helped to hone their speaking skills in Hindi while sharpening their knowledge about the latest issues.

New Computer Lab

One more feather was added to the techno savvy hat of USFC. Today a new Hi-Tech computer Lab was started.

The Lab has the capacity of 40 students. It is spacious as the computers installed are “All In One Desktops”, which makes the lab welcoming and accommodating.

This initiative will help foster the teaching – learning of Computer as a subject and necessity in today’s fast moving world.

DEREKS FASTER SMARTER BETTER CHALLENGE

A quiz was organised by Derek O’ Brien’s group in school today. The students of Classes 6^th, 7^th, 8^th and 9^th participated in this quiz programme. There were 4 teams comprising.

The quiz was held in 5 rounds – Life Skills, Direct Questions, Visual, Memory and Rapid Fire.

The questions were varied and tested the application of logic, common sense, knowledge, memory and mental agility.

Team A emerged as the winners in a competition that was interesting and nail-biting till the end.

Even the audience had a fair share of questions which they answered enthusiastically.

SOF Awards

Udgam School has been consistently conducting the Olympiad Exams in the school for Cyber, Science, Mathematics and English since years.

During the last academic year also the same were held through out the year witnessing overwhelming participation and excellent performances from the students.

As Shantanu Patel of class 11 stood 1^st in 6^th IMO, he received a gold medal and a cheque of Rs. 5000/- for his outstanding performance.

Shanay Shah of class 4 received a silver medal for acquiring 2^nd position in 3^rd IEO.

All the above students received a certificate, a DVD of Encyclopedia and yearly subscription of BBC knowledge magazine.

In 6^th IMO in the year 2012-13, 765 students participated and performed well, so Mrs. Dhanya Ramachandran being the IMO coordinator of the school received a certificate, a trophy, cheque of Rs.5000/- , a DVD of Encyclopedia and subscription of BBC knowledge magazine.

TOWARDS A GREENER WORLD

Planting of trees for a greener environment is inculcated among the students in Udgam from an early age.

Every year Udgamites plant saplings during the month of July in wake of keeping school green and fresh. This year focus was on planting saplings carrying medicinal value, so the school procured 40 saplings from an NGO.

The students planted a sapling each, on the school grounds, and pledge to take care of it.

The saplings of Tulsi, Neem, Mango, Jamun, Sal wood, Indian Borage etc were planted enthusiastically by the children.

They thoroughly enjoyed the experience which also included encounter with earthworms.

Natural Artist

Udgam School for Children not only itself believes in saving environment in all possible ways but also successfully inculcates the same in their kids, here is an example:

Radhika Kotak of class 9 A made “Patachitras” painted directly with natural colours attending a workshop at an Art Centre.

These are made directly with natural colours without any preliminarily using pencil or drawing. They have to be completed in one go.

The natural colours are extracted from leaves, flowers etc…

An innovative way of being eco friendly and making wonderful paintings.