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Learning Apps – Helpful or Harmful?

We are living in a fast-paced world, where people are continuously on the move. Mobile devices have taken over as the reigning king as they are providing mankind with the comfort and flexibility to benefit from the World Wide Web even when they are on the go. In such a scenario, the learning apps help to satiate our thirst for learning and have hence been readily embraced by people throughout the globe. Though the concept of learning apps has made a rapid stride in recent years, there is still a raging debate going on among the educationists and parents regarding the usefulness of these applications. We, at the  K.R. Mangalam World School , one among the top 10 convent schools in Delhi, believe just like there are two sides to a coin, the learning apps also have their own share of pros and cons. The Usability of the Learning Apps Learning apps present a new arena of knowledge acquirement, and it is a field that is changing as rapidly as ever with the new platforms spontaneously sp...

Building a Sense of Play around Math Problems

With the gradual advancement of the methods related to education and learning processes, teaching and learning the curricular subjects have become more interesting. In earlier days teachers used a rule book to teach and hardly stepped out of that which made the entire process of learning serious and boring to the children. However, with illustrations getting added and life experiences being summoned to each chapter, the subjects have become far more appealing to the children. This methodological change in the way of teaching has made subjects like mathematics, which bear a general perception of being difficult, easier and engaging. It is obvious that any child would be attracted by the colorful appearances and easy to relate examples as compared to monotonous operational methods. We at K.R. Mangalam World School, believe in igniting the interest of the students so that no external pressure or compulsion needs to be exerted to them to make them find interest in solving mathematics....

Signs That Your Child has High Emotional Intelligence

“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg. The key to success, contentment, and lifelong achievements does not just lie in academic knowledge and skills but sparks significantly in emotional intellect and acumen. The term ‘ intelligence ’ has more dimensions entailed to it than what it exhibits to the world.  Intelligence encompasses several elements that include logical aptitude, linguistic aptitude, interpersonal aptitude, musical aptitude, and definitely the emotional aptitude, which is better known as emotional intelligence. In this supersaturated era of academic pressure, corporatization, and overall lifestyle advancement, we often tend to overlook delicate aspects like intellectual development, moral reasoning, and emotional addressing. However, these are some of the most crucial facets that require attention especially when the mind is in its state of formation. The upcoming future of ma...

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...