The Game of Change

Geeta Ramakrishnan

Geeta

Forgiveness is an important part of healing

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Forgiveness is an important emotion. It allows us to heal from age old scars and lightens our burdens. Being human is natural and getting hurt is an unavoidableaspect of being human. But we always have the power to forgive those who hurt us, for our own mental peace. 

Personally and professionally, it is always important to have a clear, uncomplicated state of mind to get ahead and fully enjoy the little moments. Forgiveness is the pathway that clears many long held traumas within us, paving the way for success and inner peace. It is a beautiful act of kindness we can do for ourselves and truly lightens our hearts.

Remember holding a grudge will only harm our own well being, no matter how justified our anger may be. In order to move forward, one must first acknowledge the past and give it the closure it deserves. Like the saying goes, “To err is human. To forgive divine.”

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Blog 15/52: Taking a pause to reflect

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Taking a pause to reflect is imperative to success.

Blog 15/52 April 13th : Are you overwhelmed with the work and chores around you?

We are all slaves of habit. This is not necessarily bad. A baby learns to walk by falling multiple times, and is still fully focused on walking. Soon he has mastered the art of walking and it goes into auto-mode. It has become a habit. 

You develop many many habits as you grow older. Some useful and some not so useful. And habits being in auto-mode, becomes transparent to you. 

In your quest to success, you start living by the day, dealing with hundreds of things to do daily. Get up in the morning, rush through your tea, run for work, eat as fast as you can, work some more, run back home, eat fast, some mindless negative news, sleep and repeat. Suddenly it is all overwhelming and you don’t know how to exit.

Did you take out some time to just relax, just breath, to give that pause? To re-look at the way you are handling life and what you really want to focus on? That break, that pause is a good way to cut you out of the routine, allowing you to change the way you do things that are no longer useful. Change for the better. Change to success.

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How to teach your kids about Coronavirus outbreak

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Find the links below of the article : How to teach your kids about Coronavirus outbreak – as appeared in Hindustan Times, Outlook , and other online media like IANS Life, Bhaskar Live, Social News XYZ, NewsGram, Daily World, Trend in India, The Hawk, Kwick News.

The novel Coronavirus has not just left our medical practitioners and researchers searching for solutions, but its also parents who find it hard to explain the phenomenon to young children, in a creative, calm way.

As per ontological coach and author Geeta Ramakrishnan, while this Virus crisis will have a psychological effect on all of us, you want to make it as soft and digestible as possible for the little ones.

“You can explain to your kids that Coronavirus is the name of an evil flu virus. When you usually get sick with flu, you get fever, cold and cough, and the doctor gives you medicines and you get better. But when this evil Coronavirus gives flu, it sometimes affects people’s breathing,” she told IANSlife.

What’s required are some rules. “This evil virus sticks to you when you go out and touch things. So you must use some secret tricks which this evil Coronavirus will not like. You must wash your hands with soap and sanitizer as often as you can to keep them clean. You must not go out to meet your friends, so the virus can’t stick to you. If older people have to go out to buy important things, we have to wear a mask and gloves. Parents can use paper and colors to help create stories with your kid on how the brave kids of today saved the world from the evil Coronavirus.”

Parents can also use a free-to-read, digital book for primary school age children. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler, the children’s guide is about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it. It is published by Nosy Crow, and written by staff within the company. 

With expert input from Professor Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, two head teachers and a child psychologist, the book answers key questions in simple language: What is the coronavirus? How you catch it? What happens next? And, what can one do to help?

“This pandemic is changing children’s lives across the globe and will have a lasting impact on us all. Helping children understand what is going on is an important step in helping them cope and making them part of the story – this is something that we are all going through, not something being done to them. This book puts children in the picture rather than just watching it happen, and in a way that makes the scary parts easier to cope with,” Professor Graham Medley said.

The book is available for free on the Nosy Crow blog.

A new story book by UNICEF – available for free in six languages including English – will also help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19. It has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organisations working in the humanitarian sector.

Breaking the myth that perfect parents exist

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Family is one of the most fundamentally important institutions in our society. The urge to procreate is at the heart of the institution of family. We have moved away from a joint family system to nuclear families. What has remained constant is the importance attached to parenting. Parents are entrusted with the most crucial task of raising a family and also keeping it together. However, it is a matter of debate if there is anything called “perfect parents”. Let us see if it is a myth.

Untrained and inexperienced

We as a society have imposed an unprecedented amount of pressure on parents. It is as if we expect all humans to be perfect at the art of parenting. But, the reality is far removed from our idealism. Parents are untrained and inexperienced. Everyone learns the skills of parenting only after the child is born. There’s no single book of golden rules to be a perfect parent.

The subjective theory of perfection

What is perfection after all? What kind of parents qualify to be perfect? It is a highly subjective concept. Parenting is full of life-altering challenges. Some of it is sweet but most of it entails sheer hard work and patience. Perfection itself is a big myth. What is perfect or ideal for one child may not be suitable for another. It is the social, economic, mental, physical, and political system that has a lot to do with the kind of parents a society has.

Parenting at the cost of personal freedom

There is no training for parenthood. There is no formal degree. Parents, after all, are humans, fallible and vulnerable. Parents are capable of mistakes and can have a lot of flaws. Now we realize that perfection is not important. In an orthodox society, parenting is a compulsion. There is no choice. In a liberal society, parenting can be very tough as children don’t pay heed to strict rules. In any situation, a great deal of personal freedom needs to be sacrificed to be a parent. There is nothing perfect about giving up on personal freedom.

Happiness trumps perfection

The perfect parent is a myth propagated by mainstream media. There cannot be a single benchmark for perfection in parenthood. Parenthood does not equal sainthood. An overtly loving and caring (seemingly perfect) parent could end up harming the child at times. A selfish parent can sometimes make a child learn the values of compassion and generosity. We would any day take a happy and compassionate parent over a ‘perfect’ parent. To an innocent child, his or her parents are perfect. When the child grows up this naive assumption may change into disillusionment or may not change and he or she may continue to hold onto this naive belief.

But the world implicitly knows that there is no such thing as a perfect anything.

Perfection is a superficial and unreal template

The quintessential cinema mother is unidimensional, saintly and angelic. A stereotype created to fulfil the expectations of the majority. Interestingly, mythology is full of examples of imperfect, flawed, selfish, vindictive and imperfect parents. Parenthood doesn’t change the fundamental beliefs and values of most individuals. In fact, it hardens, affirms and confirms many erroneous and at times vicious values. In orthodox societies, parenthood is often thrust upon individuals in a loveless marriage. The result is often witless, careless and tragically unprepared parents. The motives behind embarking upon the journey of patent-hood, range from foolishly idealistic to shockingly evil. The resulting parents are not perfect or imperfect. But just lucky or unlucky accidents, for themselves, their offspring and the society at large.

As there are no perfect people, there are no perfect parents not perfect children. It is advisable to not evaluate parenting with a flawed yardstick of perfection. What matters more is freedom and happiness. It is necessary to dispel the myth of perfect parents to save everyone from the exasperating ritual of parenthood. It is time to get real, candid, and rational about the way we view parenting.