If You Are A Parent

We are conducting a 5 day Outdoor Residential Activity Workshop for 8-14 yr kids in April and May 2013

WHEN (April and May 2013)
Batch 1 : 15th April to 19th April
Batch 2 : 22nd April to 26th April
Batch 3 : 29th April to 3rd May
Batch 4 : 20th May to 24th May

WHAT (ACTIVITIES
- Daily @8-10 hours of exciting indoor + outdoor activities of mind + body for smart personality development
- Hostel-like experience to inspire benefits of being disciplined and doing your own house keeping activities
- Business Management by Kids. L’earn’ to actually make,pack & sell a beautiful product (and make money!)
- Session on Dr. Panat’s method. Mastering to write any math table between 11 to 99 in 30 seconds! Please call for book!
- A day outdoor fun’n’walk in Matheran – a nearby hill station plus horse-riding, and a surprise fun game too!
- Learning from nature and surroundings! Learning a city/terrace farming. Outdoor visit to an organic farm or a scenic hill-top (@ 400 long - wide steps high!) that is a sun-rise as well as a sun-set point, and a brick factory or
village dairy
- Understanding various types of paintings (Oil, Acrylic, Charcoal, Dry Pastel, Water) and a live painting activity session
- Two fun ‘n’ learn to make/cook two healthy food items (and eat it too!)
- Two fun ’n’ learn activities (such as a Magic Show or Astro-gazing or Book Binding or Warli Greeting card)
- Two motivational entertaining videos/activities – Motivating, exciting fun with lots to learn and enjoy
- Daily special sessions on growing children’s positive development needs such as understanding dignity of labor, anger management, failure handling, respect, determination, lateral thinking (game) and positive attitude
- The three dimensions of EPL for significantly improving inter-personal communications (supported with fun elements of singing, dancing, exercising, breathing and articulating / expressing with conviction)
- An innovative learning game called YES3. A framework for achieving synergy between attitude and talent for achieving success by seeing, setting and scoring GOALS, continually,consistently. Solve the Rubik Cube too!
- Individual behavior cum personality assessment. Feedback to bring the best in the child

TRAVEL LOGISTICS STAY EAT
- At Belavali, Badlapur (between Kalyan and Neral). Also includes one day visit to nearby Matheran Hill Station
- Safe, secure, clean and independent bungalow accommodation. 3-4 children in a room. 5 rooms with clean separate toilets (Max Batch Size 15). Responsible guardian hosts and camp conductors – Ashwini and Sunil Tatkar
- Vegetarian Meals - Tea with Biscuits (twice a day), Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Pure Bisleri Water
- Travel: Ghatkopar-Belavali-Ghatkopar AND Belavali-Neral-Matheran-Neral-Belavali by Road/Train. Local by Road

FEE for 5-Day Program : INR 4875/- per participant

RECOMMENDATION FROM TEACHER

The organizer of this five day outdoor cum residential activity workshop, Mr. Sunil Tatkar is well known to me. He was a student of mine. Even as a student, he exhibited a passion for ‘thinking out of the box’. He is very innovative and creative. He has developed an extraordinary and effective tool for instilling values and skills in students, in student friendly manner, evoking their interests & developing their skills by actually experiencing the activities. He is highly educated and his technique is well appreciated. I recommend this method for the all round development of the student. + Smt. Panicker Sarala Narendran, recipient of The National Teachers Award (Public Recognition of Meritorious Teachers) from Hon. Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the 13th (current) President of India.

RECOMMENDATION FROM PARENT
I must admit, when we came to know about your program & were interested, we had apprehensions about sending Chintan with ‘strangers’, without any references. But apprehension gave way for confidence when we spoke to you & Mrs. Tatkar. Simple telephone conversations, interactions with both of
you, the daily tele-chat with Chintan during the program and of course his beaming face on return only justified our confidence. + Shri. Girish Karnik (works at Siemens, lives in Thane, proud parent of Chintan, Age 12 years – student at Vasant Vihar High School, Thane)

i strongly believe and agree that a child needs to enjoy his childhood. i am a mother of a 4 year old, 2 months ago we moved to united states from mumbai. i was shocked, confused, sad when i would see 4-5 year olds going for tution classes. i feel parents are responsible for making this world so competitive and they should be giving the kid the right to live and enjoy his childhood. i do agree that we need to educate them but may be when we meet each other we should not be saying - hey my son has started writing his abc's and 123's does your daughter do it ? we all know that this is the only age when we really enjoy life without any pressure of performing - why not live it the way it was meant to be

whatever we do, however much we create a competitive environment and push our children, thank goodness children still remain children. they get as much pleasure in mucking in the sand, and it doesnt matter to them that their moms push them to write their abcs before they are 3

good article.i too believe that competation is not necessary in kids of very young age instead, if we cultivate good socialization in them they may turn up well.i do no why parents make the competitive atmosphere for the kids.i hope atleast people like us who r educated should be more practical.hope the best.

good article. only if, it were the yester years. today's child is born in the age of computers, internet and hi tech gadgets. can they ever imagine how we used to be as children ? did we ever do so ? my mother used to tell me how she used to climb trees, swim in ponds, enjoy playing in the orchards. i grew up in a city . i didnot enact what my mother did.i laughed as to how come she was enjoyoing these types of activities.days are changing and we have to change. otherwise we will only repent that we could not bring up our children efficiently. however, we can help the children live their childhood. many a time i see children hooked to the computers rather playing games outside( if there is a place). we must not only encourage them to play but also play with them. they copy their parents and hence they would take up in the right direction.

it is a good message for parents to put things in perspective. it is true, we get carried away with the competition, making sure that our child stands first in their class. i am a mother of a 5 yr old, and when we was 4, i must admit, i was pushing him to learn as much as he could...numbers ..abc..etc. i have started to take it easy on him. both myself and my husband play other childhood games that we used to play and spend time with him that way....it is really and fun family time for all of us.
regards,

i am a professional and mother of 2 girls aged 5 and 2 and a half. my first girl started reading (actual reading) when she was 2+. it was definitly not done through hours of drilling. she had and has tremendous fun. even now she loves reading. she loves mud, sand, water, tv, computers, outdoors you name it. my 2 and a half year old has not really started reading but she too spends a lot of time playing. i have not sent them for any formal music or ballet or speech and drama or karate lessons. many of my friends have started all or any one of these. i am least worried. we do these informally at home during play. if they want to seriously learn (adhering to strict class schedule, routine and what not) then i leave it to them.

beautiful speech by mr. premji and thanks to jaswant kapur for sharing such a moving speech with us. i loved all the comments from everyone, there are lot to say but briefly, it is hard in today's generation but it is doable.

a very good article.we are teaching our childrens for being clerks,not for enterpreneurs.
please think it over