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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys n Girls,

We are excited to announce the Winner of Cap/Hat/Turban Photo Contest

Please put your hands together for Prerna Maurya submitter of the winning photo in Cap/Hat/Turban Photo Contest, Congratulations to Prerna  !!! 

To see the winning photos. please visit the Photo Contest pages, Cap/Hat/Turban Photo Contest  

The submitter of the winning photo gets :

1) A Silver Name Pendant (i.e, a pendent shaped as "Prerna", see the video below) sponsored by TripOnline.

2) A bonus of 500 points

3) Opportunity to get one of her posts tagged as Featured Post on Parentmuse.

Congratulations Prerna Maurya once again. Appreciate your support to Parentmuse.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys n Girls,

We are excited to announce the Winner of the Award "Star New Member of the Quarter" (April -June 2021)

Please put your hands together for Kalpana Mishra for being selected as the Star New Member of the Quarter. Congratulations to Prachulika and Kalpana !!! :).

Kalpana  has been active on Parentmuse everyday in last quarter from the day she joined. She has uploaded her picture in her account's profile photo and cover page. She is a member who has been sharing numerous information beneficial to Parentmuse members and engaging with the contents on Parentmuse. She has referred Parentmuse to her family and friends. She is a featured Member, She is seen consistently on the Leaderboard. She has already won a photo contest on ParentMuse and so on.......  Its a pleasure to have a committed new member like Kalpana. Thankyou Kalpana for being with us.

Kalpana Mishra gets :

1) A Cash reward of Rs 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred only)

2) A bonus of 500 points each

3) Opportunity to get one of her posts tagged as Featured Post on Parentmuse.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys n Girls,

We are excited to announce the Winners of the Grandpa and Grandmother Photo Contest. 

Please put your hands together for Prachulika Thapa and Kalpana Mishra the submitters of the winning photos in Grandpa Photo Contest and Grandmother Photo Contest respectively, Congratulations to Prachulika and Kalpana !!! :).

To see the winning photos. please visit the Photo Contest pages, GRAND Grandpa Photo Contest  and Grandma Photo Contest

The submitters of the winning photos get :

1) A Cash reward of Rs 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred only) each

2) A bonus of 500 points each

3) Opportunity to get one of their posts tagged as Featured Post on Parentmuse.

Congratulations Prachulika Thapa and Kalpana Mishra once again. Appreciate your support to Parentmuse.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys n Girls, 

More to come, we will be announcing the winners of 3 more Awards this Quarter very soon....

1) Member of the Quarter

2) Family of the Quarter

3) New member of the Quarter

Going forward, we will be introducing PMQ (ParentMuse Quotient) which will help us in differentiating active and contributing members in Parentmuse community and reward them higher.

Stay tuned and active on Parentmuse while celebrating the relationships you cherish the most, the Children, Parents and Grandparents :)

Challenges of Adolescence (किशोरावस्था की चुनौतियाँ)

Have you ever thought about the challenges which an adolescent experience? If you want to explore about this area of research, let us help you out through this article. 

Each person has his own set of challenges, which he must face at every age, but the time when he experiments, make mistakes and has the freedom to learn from them, is during his adolescence years. The following will be an insight on the challenges and positives of adolescence.

1. Making Mistakes

Adolescence mistakes are common and very obvious. During this developmental stage, people sees, feels and do such things that are new to them. As they rebel, navigate through peer pressure, and have value conflicts, they make mistakes that will make them who they are. At this stage they are no longer children as their parents no longer need to control everything in their life, but they are still not adults where they take full responsibility of it. In the end, they are just experimenting and breaking rules to shape who they eventually want to become; however, parents should realize that mistakes are just part of that growth.

2. Growing and Learning

During adolescence, there is a lot of pushing and pulling with regards to independence and interference. Their need for independence grows the more their parents want to interfere. The key to this, is balance. Independence is needed for the adolescent to learn how to take responsibility. They must be given ample space and privacy to self discovery. So, independence and interference should go side by side, but in a reasonable manner.

3. Challenges due to Physiological changes

There are certain physiological changes, i.e. Facial hairs in males and breast development in girls, or the change of voice pitch, which are not less than a challenge for adolescents. To make them cope up with these challenges, the better way is to guide them before such changes appear. 

4. The Brighter Side

The positives of adolescence seem that they will never come, but do not despair, as they do exist. With all the mistakes the adolescent make, they learn or at least try to not repeat the mistakes again. An adult must understand that he once too was just adolescent, navigating the similar issues that his adolescents now face, so he should have the capacity to be polite and act maturely with the adolescent, when he observe the Adolescence mistakes.

Challenges of Adolescence (किशोरावस्था की चुनौतियाँ)

क्या आपने कभी उन चुनौतियों के बारे में सोचा है जो एक किशोर अनुभव करता है? यदि आप अनुसंधान के इस क्षेत्र के बारे में जानना चाहते हैं, तो इस लेख के माध्यम से हमें आपकी मदद करने दें।

 प्रत्येक व्यक्ति के पास अपनी चुनौतियों का एक सेट होता है, जिसका सामना उसे हर उम्र में करना चाहिए, लेकिन जिस समय वह प्रयोग करता है, गलतियाँ करता है और उससे सीखने की स्वतंत्रता रखता है, वह किशोरावस्था के वर्षों के दौरान है। निम्नलिखित किशोरावस्था की चुनौतियों और सकारात्मकता पर एक अंतर्दृष्टि होगी।

1.गलतियाँ करना

किशोरावस्था की गलतियाँ आम और बहुत स्पष्ट हैं। इस विकास के चरण के दौरान, लोग ऐसी चीजें देखते हैं, महसूस करते हैं और करते हैं जो उनके लिए नई हैं। जब वे विद्रोही होते हैं, सहकर्मी दबाव के माध्यम से नेविगेट करते हैं, और मूल्य संघर्ष होते हैं, वे गलतियां करते हैं जो उन्हें बना देगा कि वे कौन हैं। इस स्तर पर वे अब बच्चे नहीं हैं क्योंकि उनके माता-पिता को अब अपने जीवन में सब कुछ नियंत्रित करने की आवश्यकता नहीं है, लेकिन वे अभी भी वयस्क नहीं हैं जहां वे इसकी पूरी जिम्मेदारी लेते हैं। अंत में, वे केवल उन नियमों को आकार देने और तोड़ने के लिए प्रयोग कर रहे हैं जो वे अंततः  बनना चाहते हैं; हालाँकि, माता-पिता को यह महसूस करना चाहिए कि गलतियाँ उस वृद्धि का हिस्सा हैं।

2.ग्राउंडिंग और लर्निंग

किशोरावस्था के दौरान, स्वतंत्रता और हस्तक्षेप के संबंध में बहुत धक्का और खींच होता है। स्वतंत्रता के लिए उनकी जरूरत बढ़ जाती है, जोज्यादा उनके माता-पिता हस्तक्षेप करना चाहते हैं। इस की कुंजी, संतुलन है। किशोरों को जिम्मेदारी लेने के लिए सीखने के लिए स्वतंत्रता की आवश्यकता होती है। उन्हें स्व-खोज के लिए पर्याप्त स्थान और गोपनीयता दी जानी चाहिए। इसलिए, स्वतंत्रता और हस्तक्षेप एक साथ होने चाहिए, लेकिन उचित तरीके से।

3. शारीरिक परिवर्तनों के कारण चुनौतियाँ 

कुछ निश्चित शारीरिक परिवर्तन हैं, अर्थात् लड़कियों में पुरुषों और स्तन के विकास में चेहरे के बाल, या आवाज की पिच के परिवर्तन, जो किशोरों के लिए किसी चुनौती से कम नहीं हैं। उन्हें इन चुनौतियों से निपटने के लिए, बेहतर तरीका यह है कि इस तरह के बदलाव आने से पहले उन्हें मार्गदर्शन करें।

4. उज्जवल पक्ष

किशोरावस्था की सकारात्मकता से लगता है कि वे कभी नहीं आएंगे, लेकिन निराशा नहीं है, क्योंकि वे मौजूद हैं। किशोरावस्था की सभी गलतियों के साथ, वे सीखते हैं या कम से कम गलतियों को दोबारा न दोहराने की कोशिश करते हैं। एक वयस्क को समझना चाहिए कि वह एक बार सिर्फ किशोर था, इसी तरह के मुद्दों का सामना करते हुए, जो अब उसके किशोरों का सामना करते हैं, इसलिए उसे किशोरावस्था में गलतियों को देखने के लिए विनम्र होने और किशोरों के साथ परिपक्वता से कार्य करने की क्षमता होनी चाहिए।

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Winner of Holi Moments Photo Contest

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys n Girls, 

We are excited to announce the Winner of Holi Moments Photo Contest. The winning photo is a beautiful reflection of next generation celebrating festival of colours responsibly. It reflects in the viabrant colours and the strength the next generation brings to us.

Please put your hands together for Sunita Chhetri  the submitter of the winning photo, Congratulations to Sunita !!! :). 

The submitter of the winning photo gets :

1) A Cash reward of Rs 300/- (Rupees Three Hundred only)

2) A bonus of 500 points 

3) One year complementary Parent Premium Membership of Parentmuse.

Congratulations Sunita Chhetri  once again. Appreciate your support to Parentmuse.

Sunita, Please look for a message in your Conversation Inbox on how to claim the above said rewards in a couple of days.

To acknowledge all the participants in the contest, we would like to send all of them the invite to accumulate Qs, a future currency in making. Send in your request for invite for Qs to For Parentmuse Conversation Inbox

All the best :)

Right connection with your children

Have you ever came across a moment when your child just refused to listen to what you wanted to say and even threw a tantrum in front of others? As a parent, you are probably nodding your head. Having a deep, lasting bond is as important for the parents as it is for the children. The right connection allows children to not only feel safe, and also helps in maintaining a level of trust when parent act as their coach or advisor. Some of the effective approaches to develop the right connection with children are as follows:

1. Be playful

Believe it or not, being jolly and laughing with your children helps release the happy hormones; Oxytocin and Endorphins. Become their friend and you will see the right connection grow instantly. Which one will be more appealing to your child? “Eat your dinner now!” or “My little kitten, it’s time for dinner-your milk is getting cold.”

2. Put those gadgets away

Remember, your child comes first – before that phone call or text. When communicating with your child, make it a rule to not look or glance at your phone or laptop. Complete attention and direct eye contact from you as the parent indicates that you are listening and that he is important to you. As the right connection develops, they will even seek you as the first advisor for any situation.

3. Hug them

Yes, according to a study, adults but especially children need a lot of hugs during the day. A family therapist once said: “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth." Hugging, a quick kiss on the forehead or lightly touching the hair gives reassurance and strengthens the bond with the parent. 

4. Listen to them

Listening does not mean paying partial attention while you perform another task at the same time. Tune in your entire presence to them while answering with a “oh really? Okay…I see…” etc. Resist the urge to giving them a logical answer or your opinion unless they ask for it. In that case, become an advisor or even a coach. But take this opportunity to allow them to vent.

Being the parent, friend, coach and advisor all in one, try implementing these tips and watch your child’s behavior change. That right connection you have always wanted will start manifesting itself too.

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 While traveling on the road, you must have often encountered small children carrying a huge sack like bags on their back and the spinal cord bending down. That is exactly, ladies and gentlemen, the weight of education presently. From the very childhood, it is taught to the child that he had to get best marks in class and get certificates to make his or her parents proud. But, is the education only about getting marks and ranks? No, it is not.

There should be a joy in education. There should be happy in the knowledge that is being obtained. School is not a factory that they will spoon-feed you the syllabus, then you will keep it in your memory and put it in the exam hall. The top engineering, business and research colleges like MIT, and London School of Economics is for the wisest of minds and the very best among the lot. Students face a tough competition to get a seat in these colleges. You always have to go up and make others look down. You have to excel from your parents, peer and even your siblings. 

Education is restricted to colleges and schools only. They are feeding the students with the facts and theories from books but not the experiences of life. Remembering the formulas and facts and figures shouldn’t be the prime focus, instead, the focus should be knowing about their significance. Moreover, due to the pressure of homeworks and assignments, there remains no time for self-education. When there is no self-education, then there is also no overall growth of a child. They are not getting time to retrospect or ponder about what they have been taught in class, but simply reproducing the same thing. Also, too much exposure to technology in the education system is not an appropriate thing. In some cases, you need to demonstrate certain things in class through videos and stuff. But too much of this will take away the will of reading books by a child.

Nowadays, there is a peculiar education system where there is no reward for creativity, original thinking, research and innovation but only the highest academic accolades. Risk taking is never an option. You just read paper after paper of tuition notes and prepare yourself for exams. The worst part in the current education system is that the arts and literature has a very low weightage in front of the Scientific studies. Only science and engineer have values. In order to get yourself a proper education, you need to follow your heart in the quest for a proper education., and the system should promote that too.  

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It's true that parents are the children’s best guide. They try to do every possible thing to make their child’s life stable and secured. However, there are variations of thoughts about how parents think to develop their child life and how the child is working on that. According to a survey, 52% of parents ranked their child’s progress as their major concern while 50% of them were concerned about bullying and sadness at schools. As per present scenario, parents are much more concerned about the school performance, behavior of the children and their relationship with their peers. They are getting anxious and curious and do everything to help the child. 

Every parent wants their child to win every race in his life. It is a transparent fact that parents want their child to acquire adequate progress. But, it's not the same how the child is taking his parents' concern. Due to a certain generation gap, there are variations in thoughts and decision. Nowadays, parents are also getting concerned about this fact. They are improving the parent-child relationship by increasing communication and checking their updates regularly. Many parents even take an expert’s advice to improve the quality of communication and to connect with their children. They are getting much concerned about academics of the child along with the extracurricular activities.

From the very initial time of school, parents start thinking about their child’s growth and development. They try everything to help their child to gain adequate progress. They make their own set of data and ways to improve the child’s development. They are not only concerned about building a child’s future in education, but they also put efforts to improve the social behavior of the child.

Here are some factors that describe parents point of view regarding their child’s studies.

  1. Appointment of home tutors: Parents are becoming so restless nowadays that they appoint tutors even from the Montessori to deliver the best education as they can. They want their child to be effective enough since childhood and they choose tuitions as the best alternative.
  2. School diaries and Homework: Parents are also taking care of school diaries of their child. They think regular checking can enable them to know child development properly. They also compare their child’s progress to other children.
  3. Social media and the Internet: According to parents of teenagers, social media and Internet exposure to a child is a major concern. They think these platforms are diverting them and they can do better in their academics only if they do not use such tools for long hours.
  4. Observing their child: Also, they observe their child activities through house party, meeting the child’s friends, parents – teacher meeting, regulating their behavior, etc. 

These things are conflicting, but yes, helpful for children too.

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The relationships and friendships that make a wall of trust and sense of security between you and your siblings is very important in terms of maintaining a healthy bond with your sister or brother. Although this relationship is always a friendly one during adulthood, however, the adolescent relationship is usually hostile. The birth order of siblings mainly causes rivalry between them. For example, your brother is the youngest child and you are the older one, younger siblings usually will create and initiate jealousy for the older sibling. Or maybe the older sister will become distrustful and disloyal towards the younger sibling because the parent will more likely pay attention to the younger one of the two. Insensitivity is the trigger that tries to separate siblings from one another. 

Parents need to teach their children to love their siblings and create friendliness and a protective environment for them. 

Why siblings are the best!

To be honest, whenever some child at school would try to bully me, my sister/brother would be behind them holding a raging smile. She/he would then threaten them out of the way and would pull me away. So here are some of the reasons that why siblings are important and why they are not less than our superheroes!

  • They ALWAYS have YOUR back; Even though you would wrestle till midnight and say mean things to each other, it is all in good fun. However, if someone else ever picks on you, then your sibling proves that, ‘they just messed with the wrong family’.
  • Siblings always listen; In all the situations, they know how to keep a secret.
  • Siblings love your craziness; there is only one person who does not look at you weirdly when you try to do a handstand against the mirror, which is your sibling.

Siblings are yet one of the best blessings one can have. They teach you how to be confident and develop a sense of security within yourself.

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Digital learning platforms (fully stacked with student’s coursework books – eLearning and e-books etc.) available with an easy access for students, are all due to the advancement of technology. Hence, the importance and rapidly evolving advancements of technology cannot be summarized in one article. 

Technology has played a major role in reshaping the education sector. Numerous schools have shifted from basic coursework books to digital screens (desktops, iPad, and laptop). This technological advancement has allowed the students to explore and research useful data in a more open environment. They can access hundreds of eLearning platforms apart from their regular coursework books and notes. 

Technology in Education

Technology and education sector work well if combined together. It ensures faster growth in student’s learning capabilities, and encourage students to perform research while completing their day-to-day assignments. Students can access useful data at any time when connected digitally with search engine platforms and digital libraries. This can help students in learning new aspects related to their coursework. Practical implementation is crucially important for children, as what they learn during their childhood holds the most powerful impact. Considering the rapid increase in technology schools and parents can work together to provide a single digital learning platform for students. 

Educational Technology

Educational technology is a new term of today’s era that clearly explains the bond of technology and education along with its impactful results on students. The question comes to the mind that what exactly is “Education Technology”? It is basically the study and moral practice in regards to encouraging learning and enhancing education execution by making, utilizing, and overseeing proper mechanical procedures and assets of technology. 

It is time to invest in this technology and encourage students on investing their time in utilizing educational technology, to build-up their curiosity and grow in a potential way. 

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For every child, his or her parent is the best parent in the world. To achieve that title, every parent must work hard in bringing up their children. But parenting is not a difficult task. Every parent has his view and own rules behind the growing up of their child. But any trait that may seem like a good trait to you might not be the same for someone else. It is essential to bring up the child in an environment of education and culture, that contributes to a well-bringing-up of your child. However, over various research conducted some common traits have been identified, which overall makes you earn the title of Best parent

  1. Be a guide and mentor to your child. It is the basic thing of good parenting. Don't push, demand, blackmail or torture them. Always remember that during the time of growing up, a child will always look up to you to show them the correct path and seek advice from you to be successful. But if they see that you are not being open about it and becoming too nagging about the same, they will gradually start to disobey you while choosing their path in life without your consultation. 
  2. Be a friend of your child. He will gradually see and learn about the education and culture world from the child phase to an adolescent. He or she will have many questions to ask and many secrets to keep. From childhood, try to gain the trust of your kid so that they can rely on you and can open up to you. It is not necessary for both of the parents will be a friend of the child. So let the child decide with whom he or she is comfortable with. 
  3. Give certain independence to your child as is suited to their age. Every aspect of a child’s life, whether it’s homework, making friends or household chores, try to give them a particular space. Do Not interfere much unless you feel things are not taking a proper turn. Tell them what is right and wrong and then let them make the final decision. In this way, their decision-making characteristic will also be improved.
  4. Respect them, as it will help them learn to respect you and others. It is considered a sign of good parenting. Say sorry if it's your fault and own up to it. So that, they will understand that forgiveness and apologizing has no age bar. Learn from your mistakes, because as a parent, it's okay if you commit a mistake and get the learning out of it. 
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Parenting is a huge responsibility and being a friendly parent is even more difficult. However, maintaining friendly relations with your child is extremely important otherwise, he or she will start hiding things from you which can get him/her into trouble. Education and play go hand in hand, and if you can maintain both of them, you can easily make education and fun simpler for them.

Here are five tips which will help you to turn yourself into our friendly parent:

  1. Praise them often: Try to praise your children for every achievement they get as they will build up a feeling that you are happy with them. This will also help them to share more things with you because you have appreciated them for all the good things done by them.
  2. Understand their point of view: There is always a generation gap between parents and their children, which is the most common reason for fights between them. Whenever there is a conversation, try to understand their point of view and look at the situation from their vision also. This will also help you to understand them properly.
  3. Try to solve all your grudges with them: Keeping grudges inside you can spoil the relationships to a great extent. Therefore, it is best to solve any grudges remaining after a small argument so that both of you have a clarity of each other’s point.
  4. Be friendly with their friends: When we are in the age of adolescence, our friends matter most to us. Therefore, it is important to have friendly relations with the friends of your child. In this way, your child will realize that his or her parents like the choices made by him or her. This will also help you to know the kind of company in which your child spends time.
  5. Solve their issues with their friends: Every relationship calls for some fight and arguments, but that doesn't mean it is the end of that relationship. Try to solve your child fight with their friends, and if you successfully do that, then your child will love you for the same. 

If you follow all the steps regularly, then we are sure that soon your children will start having a friendly relationship with you which will, in turn, strengthen the bond between you and your children. Thus, you become a friendly parent.

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