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SECRETS THAT LIE IN POVERTY

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SECRETS THAT LIE IN POVERTY

Hello Folks!

Have you ever wondered about the secrets that lie in poverty? Well, today, I am going to talk about all the good there is, in being poor. So, let’s start.

MEANINGS ASSOCIATED WITH BEING POOR

Firstly, most people associate the poor with not having the necessities of life or not having the standard of a comfortable living. Whatever the criteria out there, there is much more to this definition.

According to my personal observation, I have met many families who by their backgrounds are landlords but are still poor. This does not mean they do not have a comfortable standard of living. They live a life that is comfortable to them.

LEVEL OF CONTENTMENT BETWEEN THE RURAL AND URBAN

Secondly, in comparison to urban lives, where comfortable living means a house in a posh area, a salary in six digits, sending children to elite schools where parents can boost with their acquaintances about their accomplishments. This is not the case with rural lives.

The rural people are contented with what they have and have no desire to look beyond that.

MEANING TO POVERTY

Thirdly, their poverty has a meaning. Something the urban world cannot understand. This meaning is their basic instinct of survival and ethical values which is rarely found in urban life. And it often comes as a shock to the ones living in urban life.

CONCEPT OF MATERIAL THINGS

Fourthly, when one is poor, one is beyond the concept of material things which makes life a living hell if someone possesses it. Let me explain How? See, if you own a car or house or even bank balance, you’ll always be in the fear of keeping it safe and buying more things to keep it safe.

On the other hand, if you don’t have material pursuits other than the self, you don’t have to worry about anything, other than keeping yourself sacred and safeguarded.

PAINDO AND THE ELITE

Fifthly, I have heard and seen people categorizing, a village person as paindo for keeping cattle and hens whereas a city life person modern for keeping dogs and cats and making them a brand. If a rural person is that paindo, then why drink the milk and eat dairy products from his cattles or hen? Why not drink the milk of their cats and dogs?

LOVE AT ITS HEIGHTS

Sixthly, if you want to experience love at its extreme, true nature, go and explore the villagers or people belonging to rural life. You will know the meaning of true love. You can’t find true love sitting over social media. You need to go out, meet people, like minded people and experience it.

EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIPS

Seventhly, poverty teaches all of us the meaning of true friendships that are everlasting. Though it may take a lifetime to find such friendships. However, good judgement and trust too can help one in achieving those friendships easily.

PASSION TO THRIVE

And Lastly, Poverty teaches us the passion to dream, to thrive, to do things differently, yet with great determination and consistency. This is something found more in rural people who are down to earth and have the desire to rise above their means as and when needed.

However, not all rural people can possess all qualities or faults. Sometimes we find a mix in both rural and urban life. It is just a matter of exploring the right path. Think about it. Until next time stay safe and healthy.

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SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO WIN PARENTS

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SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO WIN PARENTS

Hello Folks!

As an individual, Educational institution, and even as a parent, you must have faced this; how to talk with parents when it concerns the progress of a child. In Pakistan, very few know these successful strategies that concern these basic areas.

So today, I will discuss with you a few successful strategies that will give you food for thought to incorporate in your systems and capacity building programmes for the teachers. So let’s start.

The first successful strategy to win parents is to have Clarity. As an institution, or even as an individual, one needs to know exactly what they are going to say to the parents and mean it and ensure it whether they have been understood clearly.

As most of the time parents are communicated things in a vague manner which leaves many questions unanswered and the concerned teachers don’t ensure whether they have been successful in delivering their message across the board.

There is no need to feel shy if you have to repeat yourself even for a trillion times.No one will be offended.

The second successful strategy would be to have a professional attitude. Be friendly yet a professional. As a teacher or institution or even a parent do not discuss other people’s negativity or apply it on the child concerned.

In Pakistan, most schools and their staff fail to understand that comparisons and negativity lead nowhere. Its an institution we are talking about.

To cater to these challenges proper training need to be imparted along with developing and cultivating a proper mindset.

The third successful strategy to win parents would be a Positive Attitude. Such an attitude needs to be seen in practice too.

When one can help parents in positively parenting their child without patronizing their capabilities for their child’s upbringing, then the positive attitude is seen at its best.

Also, this positivity is seen when you as an institution, an individual and a parent can add to the learning capability of a child. This is why institutions were made. Are we practising this stuff in our institutions?

The fourth successful strategy to win parents would be to have Backups. By backup, I mean that you need to support what you are saying in terms of sample work or some kind of documentation.

If you have worked on a similar situation with some other child, you can always document that and show it to the parents in your scheduled meetings.

In Pakistan people in institutions go by words from the mouth. That is all the authenticity, you will receive here. To win the parents trust, you need to bring in the documentation to support yourself.

The fifth strategy to win parents is the need to be Flexible. There is always room for improvement provided you are open to suggestions. Being in charge of the situation does not mean you are all in all.

There would be times when the situation requires improvising new strategies and coming up with an alternative plan of action.

There are not many schools in Pakistan who are up for these mind-changing flexibilities. Their word is against the suffering parents and their children. At the end of the day. what are they producing in the form of lots? This, I will answer at the end.

The sixth successful strategy to have winning parents is to Include children wherever possible. Making children part of a discussion always help in the long run. It gives children the confidence that they too matter.

A discussion only concerning the parents and the institution is rather a dead discussion.

The child needs to know what’s going on regarding him or her. It makes them understand their responsibility and what is required of them. Children young(10-onwards) and mature should always be made a part of such discussions.

And Lastly, every teacher should know the course they are teaching and explain it in a layman’s term to the parents. In Pakistan, mostly teacher’s are not clear themselves about the syllabus.

How can you expect them to explain it to the parents? There should be sessions regarding syllabus and explained well to the parents so that parents are at par with the teachers and school and likewise.

These are some of the successful strategies that can help any institution win parents. As parents, we are all trying to work towards a common goal which is the growth of a learner/child.

But the strategies being used at present in the educational institutions are producing cattle and slaves with no mind of their own. A mind to only receive orders and not think. For those who think are treated no less than an outcast or even as misfits.

But let me remind you, it is the misfits who are the cause of change in a rotten society. They are the real agents of change and are finally addressed as heroes or heroines when they achieve their true worth and show to the world what they are capable of.

It is not a lot to think about. Still think about it if you want to have a win-win situation.

Until next time, stay safe and healthy.

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SECRETS THAT LIE IN POVERTY

Hello Folks!

Have you ever wondered about the secrets that lie in poverty? Well, today, I am going to talk about all the good there is, in being poor. So, let’s start.

MEANINGS ASSOCIATED WITH BEING POOR

Firstly, most people associate the poor with not having the necessities of life or not having the standard of a comfortable living. Whatever the criteria out there, there is much more to this definition.

According to my personal observation, I have met many families who by their backgrounds are landlords but are still poor. This does not mean they do not have a comfortable standard of living. They live a life that is comfortable to them.

LEVEL OF CONTENTMENT BETWEEN THE RURAL AND URBAN

Secondly, in comparison to urban lives, where comfortable living means a house in a posh area, a salary in six digits, sending children to elite schools where parents can boost with their acquaintances about their accomplishments. This is not the case with rural lives.

The rural people are contented with what they have and have no desire to look beyond that.

MEANING TO POVERTY

Thirdly, their poverty has a meaning. Something the urban world cannot understand. This meaning is their basic instinct of survival and ethical values which is rarely found in urban life. And it often comes as a shock to the ones living in urban life.

CONCEPT OF MATERIAL THINGS

Fourthly, when one is poor, one is beyond the concept of material things which makes life a living hell if someone possesses it. Let me explain How? See, if you own a car or house or even bank balance, you’ll always be in the fear of keeping it safe and buying more things to keep it safe.

On the other hand, if you don’t have material pursuits other than the self, you don’t have to worry about anything, other than keeping yourself sacred and safeguarded.

PAINDO AND THE ELITE

LOVE AT ITS HEIGHTS

Sixthly, if you want to experience love at its extreme, true nature, go and explore the villagers or people belonging to rural life. You will know the meaning of true love. You can’t find true love sitting over social media. You need to go out, meet people, like minded people and experience it.

EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIPS

Seventhly, poverty teaches all of us the meaning of true friendships that are everlasting. Though it may take a lifetime to find such friendships. However, good judgement and trust too can help one in achieving those friendships easily.

PASSION TO THRIVE

And Lastly, Poverty teaches us the passion to dream, to thrive, to do things differently, yet with great determination and consistency. This is something found more in rural people who are down to earth and have the desire to rise above their means as and when needed.

However, not all rural people can possess all qualities or faults. Sometimes we find a mix in both rural and urban life. It is just a matter of exploring the right path. Think about it. Until next time stay safe and healthy.

Happy Reading!

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SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO WIN PARENTS

Hello Folks!

As an individual, Educational institution, and even as a parent, you must have faced this; how to talk with parents when it concerns the progress of a child. In Pakistan, very few know these successful strategies that concern these basic areas.

So today, I will discuss with you a few successful strategies that will give you food for thought to incorporate in your systems and capacity building programmes for the teachers. So let’s start.

The first successful strategy to win parents is to have Clarity. As an institution, or even as an individual, one needs to know exactly what they are going to say to the parents and mean it and ensure it whether they have been understood clearly.

As most of the time parents are communicated things in a vague manner which leaves many questions unanswered and the concerned teachers don’t ensure whether they have been successful in delivering their message across the board.

There is no need to feel shy if you have to repeat yourself even for a trillion times.No one will be offended.

The second successful strategy would be to have a professional attitude. Be friendly yet a professional. As a teacher or institution or even a parent do not discuss other people’s negativity or apply it on the child concerned.

In Pakistan, most schools and their staff fail to understand that comparisons and negativity lead nowhere. Its an institution we are talking about.

To cater to these challenges proper training need to be imparted along with developing and cultivating a proper mindset.

The third successful strategy to win parents would be a Positive Attitude. Such an attitude needs to be seen in practice too.

When one can help parents in positively parenting their child without patronizing their capabilities for their child’s upbringing, then the positive attitude is seen at its best.

Also, this positivity is seen when you as an institution, an individual and a parent can add to the learning capability of a child. This is why institutions were made. Are we practising this stuff in our institutions?

The fourth successful strategy to win parents would be to have Backups. By backup, I mean that you need to support what you are saying in terms of sample work or some kind of documentation.

If you have worked on a similar situation with some other child, you can always document that and show it to the parents in your scheduled meetings.

In Pakistan people in institutions go by words from the mouth. That is all the authenticity, you will receive here. To win the parents trust, you need to bring in the documentation to support yourself.

The fifth strategy to win parents is the need to be Flexible. There is always room for improvement provided you are open to suggestions. Being in charge of the situation does not mean you are all in all.

There would be times when the situation requires improvising new strategies and coming up with an alternative plan of action.

There are not many schools in Pakistan who are up for these mind-changing flexibilities. Their word is against the suffering parents and their children. At the end of the day. what are they producing in the form of lots? This, I will answer at the end.

The sixth successful strategy to have winning parents is to Include children wherever possible. Making children part of a discussion always help in the long run. It gives children the confidence that they too matter.

A discussion only concerning the parents and the institution is rather a dead discussion.

The child needs to know what’s going on regarding him or her. It makes them understand their responsibility and what is required of them. Children young(10-onwards) and mature should always be made a part of such discussions.

And Lastly, every teacher should know the course they are teaching and explain it in a layman’s term to the parents. In Pakistan, mostly teacher’s are not clear themselves about the syllabus.

How can you expect them to explain it to the parents? There should be sessions regarding syllabus and explained well to the parents so that parents are at par with the teachers and school and likewise.

These are some of the successful strategies that can help any institution win parents. As parents, we are all trying to work towards a common goal which is the growth of a learner/child.

But the strategies being used at present in the educational institutions are producing cattle and slaves with no mind of their own. A mind to only receive orders and not think. For those who think are treated no less than an outcast or even as misfits.

But let me remind you, it is the misfits who are the cause of change in a rotten society. They are the real agents of change and are finally addressed as heroes or heroines when they achieve their true worth and show to the world what they are capable of.

It is not a lot to think about. Still think about it if you want to have a win-win situation.

Until next time, stay safe and healthy.

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