Nivedita Mukerjee
Education consultancy for parents and schools
3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV
Issue #161, 8th August 2023
Health and Finance. Two very key life skills that need to be managed all through our adulthood are somehow much neglected to be taught as curriculum in our schools. What are some of such essential life skills? Are they supposed to be taught by parents? are they supposed to be learned by experience? How do we know that our children/students will learn it in good time and not leave it to chance? Would that be after they have been unable to manage or struggle through parts of their life, aspects which could have been easily taught alongside the 3 Rs? Both of which would most definitely impact their health and life circumstances – emotional and financial. What do you think? what age is your child and what chores, leading to life skills is your child/student able to manage? here are a few checklists and thoughts for you to ponder upon. What are the 21st century lifeskills and when do we start to teach them?
Me skills, We skills, Why skills, Will skills, Wiggle skills, Wobble skills, What if skills – beautifully explained by the very well-known and respected author and pediatrician Dr. Laura in the video of this week would give you much to think and act upon as parents and educators.
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Three images of the week:
Two Thoughts of the Week:
Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food – where it comes from, how to cook it, and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they’ve been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.
– Jamie Oliver
Why can’t it be a curriculum? Why can’t it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.
– Gordon Ramsay
One Video of the Week:
Is the current education system sufficient to make kids succeed in 21st century? Dr. Laura believes otherwise. Her talk will ensure that you and your kids are prepared to succeed in 21 century. Laura A. Jana, MD is world’s leading pediatrician, media spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, and award-winning author.
With more than 20 years of experience in pediatrics, parenting, early education, public health and media/communications, she most recently served as Director of Innovation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and has a faculty appointment at Penn State University’s Prevention Research Center.
In addition to her acclaimed ‘Heading Home With Your Newborn’, ‘Food Fights’, and three children’s books, her most recent books – ‘The Toddler Brain’ and ‘Jumping Into Kindergarten’ – both focus on the 21st century skills needed to succeed in today’s world, and how they can best be fostered during the foundational first five years of life.
To everyone seeking the best possible environment for their child’s brain development, Dr. Laura Jana’s insights have been nothing short of life-changing.
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Thought you may find this interesting Nivedita, Zerodha’s initiative on spreading financial literacy with kids https://youtu.be/9155SZc96kk
Also our school kids all took part in a children’s flea market, they each made things to sell, priced them, then sold them, added their money and now will donate 50% to an animal shelter 🙂
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