Hope and Friendship - Jitendra Suthar

Someone once said, “Having good friends who love and support you for whom you are are important

for your happiness. Figuring out what makes a good friend can teach you how to be there for your friends when they need you the most.”

Today, I will be talking about people’s opinions on friendships, what makes a good friend, and how to be a good friend so then you’ll learn how to choose a good friend. Normally, we all have the same opinion on a good friendship. A friend is someone special that helps you through good and bad times. It has been shown in statistics that the better quality of your friendships, the happier you are and the better you feel about yourself!

Friendships can be short or last a lifetime and as you get older, you may find that your friends change. For example, we all started school being nervous and wondering, “Will I have someone to play with at recess?” or “Will I make friends?” Now, After finishing post-graduation, I have made so many friends that I would hope to continue staying connected with, but I’m also looking forward to meeting new people and build lifelong pals. Now, we have opinions about good friendships, but what about bad friendships? What can they cause? Usually, some results from bad friends can lower you.

Where there is friendship, there is hope. We all have a person standing by us in any situation no matter it is wrong or right is our friend. We have a tendency of searching for a shoulder where we can pour our self out and that our friend. 

    

As we get older, we will find that our closest friends may change from day to day. This is normal because as we become mature, we may develop new interests, which will expose us to a new set of friends. Regardless of who we are spending time with or view as our closest friend, it is important to remember that we should always treat each other with a very high level of respect so we get the most out of our friendships we develop. Like a quote that someone said, “There comes a time in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who you always will” 

Jitendra Suthar

The Fabindia School

jsr@fabindiaschools.in

Honesty: Direct Proportional to Respect - Jitendra Suthar

Honesty means having moral principles, to which a person sticks forever. When a person is honest, the first principle is not to compromise with anything happening wrong. Being honest means keeping truth on top of everything.  

As per Human tendency, we all love the feeling of getting respect. Respect itself is a great value of kindness everyone should learn. Respect will bring a lot of change in one's life. A polite, kind & helpful person gets respected.

An incident of class, where there was a child who was always shy to express himself in front of the whole class. There were times when a teacher forced that kid to answer and express himself in front of everyone. The teacher observed that child for two weeks. After that, she decided to bring out the best of that child.

Later on, she started making him speak, read and explain whichever topic he felt was easy. She practised this for a week and every time he answered something, the teacher appreciated him. With this, that child started taking more and more part in-class activities. This built his confidence and made him respected more in class.

Kids in class are honest in any situation, only thing is we, as a teacher, should try to make them express themselves to get respect also and when these kids start getting respect, they automatically start building honesty. No one will be dishonest with others because gaining respect is not easy and once we get that respect and appreciation for our work, we always try to keep things going on.

Jitendra Suthar
The Fabindia School

Happiness and Tolerance: Jitendra Suthar

Having a feel of joy whenever we come across any situation we like the most is happiness. As a point from the student’s side, a student is always keen to find happiness in his own friend circle in the school. Sometimes a school stands as the only point of happiness in a student’s life. At home kids always miss a friend like them. Right starting from the day of admission in the school, a child has the tendency to find friends with the same way of thinking; this comes up with better understanding between each other and builds moral support. 

Happiness in class can only come when an educator acts as a mentor to kids beyond the relations of a teacher and student. When this happens, each and every child will try to attend the class of that teacher. 

Experience matters a lot. All the educators have gone through the same situations in their schooling days. It becomes very easy for educators to make out how they can make kids understand right or wrong. Many times there are small fights in the classroom, a tough time for an educator to settle down the situation. For this, a teacher should try to make each and every child comfortable with each other, like they can start sharing their desk with each and every kid. Daily there should be shuffling in the class and kids should be asked to site with the new face daily. 

At the same time, there should be a lesson where students should be allowed to share both the good and bad sides of the bench partner. This will help them in building mutual understanding between them; they will get to know their own qualities (good and bad) and they can improve. This process can make our kids tolerant and if a child is tolerant, He will always stay happy.

Jitendra Suthar

The Fabindia School

Happiness and Tolerance - Nikita Rajpurohit

Students always have the tendency to grasp things in different ways which may not always

be what we would like to portray to them. As teachers, we are expected to maintain a balance between students’ happiness as well as class discipline.

Happiness and Tolerance are like two sides of the same coin where the students, as well as the teachers, may face difficulty in applying them in their every-day lives. A classroom incident to which we as teachers or reminiscing our school days may relate to is given in the following short story.

So there's this one student in Class IX who has been good in academics, good in sports, moreover he is well-disciplined, but there's only one thing that he is lacking, that is tolerance and that too when he has done a mistake unintentionally and he gets a scold from the teacher, he loses all his cool and becomes the real opposite of what he actually is...

He feels happy when he succeeds in anything, be it academic, sports, arts, anything but once he gets a sign of failure, he doesn't seem to care what he speaks or what is he doing...

I noticed it many times and I was a bit curious to know a solution for him where he can be happy and tolerant at even bad situations. So one day, I entered the class, called him up and asked for his notebook, and I was really glad to see that he is all checked with his work. Still, I made a quick comment by saying, “You should pay attention to your handwriting, my dear."At the very moment, he listened to my statement and became red in anger and said,” I won't do anything now". And yes, he was in the intolerance phase now.

I called another student who had not completed his work and asked him to improve his handwriting and with that, the second student replied, "Yes ma'am, I will". Then I took the first student (the main kid) outside the classroom and made him sit on a chair and said, " You see even though he didn't complete his work, I was aware of that but when I suggested him the same thing I did to you, he was very polite with his answer and I know he will definitely pay attention to his handwriting. On the same place, you're a good student and we expect you to be the best as you are, and if you take our suggestions positively, it will be you who will be good at everything. I hope you understood my kid".

The next day when I entered the school gate, he came up with a smile and apologized for yesterday's scenario and said," From today onwards, I will not be angry at anything and really try to take your suggestions in a productive way".

This made me very glad, seeing a student like him who understood the concept of happiness and tolerance...

Nikita Rajpurohit

The Fabindia School

What is Conscientiousness? : Kavita Devda

Conscientiousness is the motivation of being responsible, careful and diligent. Conscientiousness implies a desire to do a task well.

Conscientious people exhibit a tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully and aim for achievement.

The following are the examples of conscientiousness:-

Diligence: Committing attention and effort to a task.

Persistence: Continuing with a task until it is completed.

Honesty: A desire to tell the truth and avoid to be dishonest.

Responsibility: Taking responsibilities seriously and doing what it takes to deliver to commitments.

Self-Discipline: An ability to control feelings and thoughts to focus on a goal.

An ability to focus on a task and work extended hours until a task is complete.

Why is it important to be conscientious?

Conscientious individuals also are more likely to succeed because they tend to have higher levels of organisation ability. This bides you more time to focus on what's actually important and to complete what actually needs to be done.

Kavita Devda

The Fabindia School, Bali <kda4fab@gmail.com>