Expansion of life and learning

 I have been working with some teenagers and their parents. Also I have one at home. I remember when Skanda was about to turn 13yrs I was super stressed and we were getting into too many argutments and fights. One of my mentor, Ratnesh, questioned my believes about teenagers. I realised that I had many believes which was stopping me to create the bridge of understanding between me and my son. The belief that "Teenagers are difficult to handle" itself is enough to have the repercussions. What other believes do we hold that is creating the wall in between the parent and the child? Teenagers don't listen Teenagers are very adamant. They are not interested in any thing except for gadgets. They are so rude to everyone  

PROBLEM: Mom cribbing, complaining, and feeling overwhelmed with all the work at home. SOLUTION(by a teenager): Let us bring understanding and share responsibilities WHAT & HOW: We will decide in the meeting WHEN: Sunday 8 pm ACTION:  We all listed down the chores to be done on a daily basis. Work were put in 4 groups. Everyone chose the work they want to do. There were agreeing, disagreeing, argument, commitment etc during this discussion.    OUTCOME:   Mom relaxed Chores divided Some reminders had to be given All are following as they commited Happy, peaceful and fight free zone NEXT MEET: after a week.

Not finding myself alone I started my first learning centre 14 years ago but covid forced us to close it down. After a year of break and our team being scattered, there was fear, anxiety and uncertainty to start a new initiative. As I was missing the action with children, I went ahead and started 'Discover Me'. It was a new place and not too much space to store or set up like before. So I went there with a few inhibitions. The children came to the space, saw the place and saw me cleaning and setting it up. I asked them if they wanted to join me cleaning and setting up the space and they all were very excited.  We all, together, divided the work. If I am confused or stuck, I ask them and together we find a solution for the problem.  Some chose to sweep, two of them said they wanted to mop. So it was all done smoothly. I was sometimes leading and sometimes I was just following instructions. I was reminded that I wasn't alone in this initiative, I had these children with me. B...