The Game of Change

Geeta Ramakrishnan

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Blog 37/52: Learn From Your Children

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Monday Blog 37/52:

Learn From your childrenI

f you get an opportunity, watch a baby learn to walk. They will get up wobbly placing one foot and then the next, falling in the process. Cry a bit maybe, only to get up and try again and again and again till one day they are walking with confidence and soon will be running all around the house.

Children are so pure, living in the moment. Not worried of what people with think or say.

Between 0 to 7 years, children are busy learning all the survival skills needed and are said to operate from their conscious mind. After which it switches to a sub-conscious mind, where behaviors are based on learnt perceptions and often on repeat mode, as we start forming habits.

Let us learn from the children and re-examine and learn to unlearn some perceptions, to not be judgmental and governed by what people will say, to focus on the now, to laugh aloud and to enjoy life one moment at a time.

Blog 36/52: Best Parent

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Blog 36/52

How to be the Best Parent

Weddell Seals with a 11 month pregnancy, can single handedly raise their children, teaching them to hunt in the icy water and survive the tricky icy landscape before letting them go to fend for themselves. Orangutans who can get pregnant once every nine years, are also single parents, nurturing their little one for a full eight years, getting them ready with all the survival skills needed and they are ready to be on their own. Male flamingos practice gender equality and coparent till the little ones are strong enough to fly away.

While humans are said to possess more cognitive and emotional abilities than other animals, we unfortunately cannot bag the ‘Best Parent’ award in the animal kingdom. We unwittingly pass our fear and anxiety to our children which works against them thriving in this world. Our inability to let-go of our children when it is time and allow them to learn from their mistakes is another factor that works against making us the best parent despite possessing the best brain in the animal kingdom.