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    Risky play is the best teacher to learn adaptability!
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Nov 10, 2021
    • 3 min

    Risky play is the best teacher to learn adaptability!

    Risk-taking capacity is laying the foundation for children to learn to trust their own instincts, choose to do things for themselves..
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    Would children become unruly if they went to a school with no rules?
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Sep 18, 2021
    • 5 min

    Would children become unruly if they went to a school with no rules?

    Imagine a school where pre-schoolers are accorded all the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship: where students truly...
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    What happens when a group of angry toddlers pretend to mob-lynch a puppet? (Part-1)
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Apr 20, 2021
    • 4 min

    What happens when a group of angry toddlers pretend to mob-lynch a puppet? (Part-1)

    A typical day at Sahaj has a flow where children come in, hang up their bags at the designated place, play, eat, and leave for home....
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    Let’s not Camouflage Death, Let Children Know Death as it is!
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Feb 26, 2021
    • 5 min

    Let’s not Camouflage Death, Let Children Know Death as it is!

    While going for a walk with my daughter, many a time, we have encountered a dead squirrel. As I am not comfortable with either talking...
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    Let us change the world (by gifting self-confident children), one child at time! (Part- 1)*
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Dec 9, 2020
    • 5 min

    Let us change the world (by gifting self-confident children), one child at time! (Part- 1)*

    Why Shaming is the Worst Way to “Discipline” Any Child? At the very outset, let us state as adults, that it is not our job to make sure...
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    Children are (not) just swinging and sliding!
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Nov 20, 2020
    • 5 min

    Children are (not) just swinging and sliding!

    We commenced operations in March 2019 from the beautiful space of the Vidya Bhawan Society's campus. The kindergarten at Vidya Bhawan was...
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    A childhood spent in nature is as valuable to nature as it is to children!
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Sep 18, 2020
    • 4 min

    A childhood spent in nature is as valuable to nature as it is to children!

    As adults, when they reminisce about the sweet time they had spent in nature in their childhood, the lessons nature taught them.
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    Decision-making, perseverance and co-operation! Emerging behaviour patterns from child-led PLAY.
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Jul 24, 2020
    • 3 min

    Decision-making, perseverance and co-operation! Emerging behaviour patterns from child-led PLAY.

    Cosimo, age, 5.5 years balancing and walking on the periphery of a wall. Risky play offers a matchless opportunity to exercise one's own...
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    Isn't healthy competition good for children?
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Jul 12, 2020
    • 6 min

    Isn't healthy competition good for children?

    Feeling competitive allows us to acknowledge what we want and this is the window to understand who we are, as people.
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    Mumma, we did teamwork to make this house!
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • Jun 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    Mumma, we did teamwork to make this house!

    If we wish for our children to engage in teamwork as an intuitive behaviour, self-directed play has the best potential to teach teamwork.
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    Do you need help?
    Ishani Shah-Verdia
    • May 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Do you need help?

    Through positive lived experiences,a child sub-consciously learns to have a positive intuition.
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