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The Right Way to Handle Naughty Children

Naughtiness is something that’s innatein kids. Rarely will you come across any kid who portrays silent and sober behavior. And though we believe that this naughtiness should be thoroughly enjoyed as with age this phase shall pass, we also understand that at times this naughty behavior turns out to be very challenging and difficult for the parents to handle. We often heard parents complaining about their children being extremely naughty and undisciplined. However, you should know that disciplining  naughty children  should never be about punishing or beating them as it can pent up anger in the young minds and lead to trauma. While it can be downright frustrating to deal with naughty kids, using a friendly and positive reciprocal approach is the right way to go about it. Here we have a few tips on how parents can handle their naughty children and let them grow up into disciplined and well-behaved adults: Set Limits As parents, you need to understand your child’s needs an...

Why is it Crucial to Teach Self-Regulation to Kids?

Almost all children are prone to throwing tantrums and parents generally get quite used to it in the growing years of a child. While a rare case of throwing tantrums is okay, the problem arises when this becomes a habit with them and that is where the values of self-regulation come into play. Self-regulation refers to the ability within oneself to manage the behavior and emotions in accordance with the demands of certain situations. It is about the ability to resist highly emotional responses to an upsetting stimulus, to calm down oneself while getting upset, to adjust to the changes in expectations, and to deal with frustrations withoutputting up a violent reaction. We, at the K.R. Mangalam World School , believe self-regulation is that set of important life skills that enable the children to direct their behavior towards achieving the goal regardless of the unpredictability and unexpectedness thrown on their path. We believe that for an all-encompassing development, a child requi...

How to Raise an Eco-Friendly Generation?

Over the span of last tens of thousands of years, we human beings have been the most significant force of nature by virtue of our ingenuity and ability to adapt ourselves to any environment and change it to suit our needs with our imagination. Unlike other animals who merely roamed about in the wild using the available means to fend for them, we with the gift of our intellect changed and bent the environment around us and created what we needed. No other creature had this gift of mind, and therefore we rose up to be the sole proprietors of nature and inherited the world with the help of our creativity, intellect, and collective conscience. As a result, within a span of a few thousand years, we began terraforming the earth according to our will with the help of technology that replaced dense jungles with the first specs of significant civilization all across the globe. Soon within another few thousand years till the present century, we achieved and kept on modernizing at the expense...

Children and Spelling Mistakes

Language skills with strong vocabulary are ideally considered the part and parcel of strong communication abilities. But what you all generally do to build your child’s language skills? Try hard to teach and train the kid to write words and see to it that the kid does this task without mistakes. Isn’t it? But the fact is that most of the children, on their way to learning, do make occasional spelling mistakes. It is common and there is nothing to get angry over it with your tiny tots. There is absolutely no need to dread about the spelling mistakes if you are ready to guide the children in the right way. Yes, we do agree that schools have a primary role to play in teaching children the nitty-gritty of spelling mistakes. And at the K.R. Mangalam School, we give the needed attention to handle the children’s spelling mistakes and help them overcome their learning problems, thereby improving their overall language skills for the better. Teachers at KRMS understand the learning problem...

Teaching Your Child the Important Skill of Money Management

Parents have a sacred duty to provide their children with their temporal needs that includes the basics like shelter, food, and clothing, and also the luxuries like toys. The duty of a parent does not end at providing the immediate needs of a child and it extends to ensuring that a child can meet his or her needs in the future as well. Teaching them the important skill of money management is a step towards ensuring that they grow up to be financially independent adults. In the modern age of advertising, the marketers heavily influence the minds of the young ones with all their temptation of toys, junk food, and more. For parents, it might feel like that they are better off without giving any money to their kids. But, that is not the right way forward as until you give them money, you cannot teach them the importance of money and the ways of saving the bucks. We, at the K.R. Mangalam School, believe that it is better to teach the kids the important lesson of money management when ...