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Dance to Story Telling: 5 Online Activities For Your Child During The Lockdown!
The UN estimates that as of 20 March, 124 countries have closed down all pre-primary to higher-education institutions – impacting almost 1.25 billion children and young learners globally. In India,...
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How Can a Child Turn Creative, Confident & Bold? Here’s Why Theatre Has the...
Why is theatre good for kids? This is a question I am often asked. My response is constant: Theatre completes an education. Even better, theatre is a complete education in itself. Theatre is a vehicle...
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Weekend Kids Karnival: Gift Your Child Tons of Fun While Helping Feed Migrant...
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. With nowhere to go,...
View ArticleIndia Must Stop Failing its Children Today. And Here’s What We Need to Do.
Recently, I read a story about a 12-year-old Adivasi girl from Chhattisgarh, who had been working in the chilli fields of Telangana. Desperate to return home, she left with other labourers and died...
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Is It Safe to Send My Child to School? Doctor, Principal Give Us the Answer
“We will not physically open up the school until and unless we are more than a 100 per cent sure that it is safe for our students, teachers and support staff,” said the principal of my children’s...
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Are Long Online Classes Straining Your Kid’s Eyes? Doctor Shares What You Can Do
For children today, using technology comes as naturally as breathing. Be it computers, tablets, mobile phones, or gaming consoles – our kids learn to operate these devices faster than us. Sadly, the...
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This 16 YO Girl Runs a Full-Fledged Bubble Tea Business From Home
Every summer, Harshita Jain from Delhi would head to the USA with her family to spend her vacations with her grandparents settled there. Among many other things, she specifically enjoyed the endless...
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Kerala Teachers Ensure Even Kids Living Under a Bridge Learn, Despite Lockdown
On 1 June this year, school students across Kerala joined their online classes from the comfort of their home. But one group of students from the St. John Bosco Upper Primary School, Kochi joined their...
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Over 2000 Children Turn into Microgreens Farmers During the COVID-19 Lockdown
“Education is not just lessons and books. A larger part of it is learning something new and that should be more of a holistic experience. Something you can actively involve yourself in, and grow as it...
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Making a Child Vaccination a Priority: How India Can Achieve This During a...
Even though Sangeeta Kamble frantically paces around the room while talking on the phone, her voice is calm as she explains the importance of vaccination to the person on the other end. Sangeeta runs...
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Class 5 Boys From Mumbai Win MIT Hackathon Award For App On Climate Change
In 2018, climate activist Greta Thunberg created a worldwide stir by skipping school to protest against climate change. The then 15-year-old went to inspire millions of children across the world,...
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Both Cloth And Disposable Diapers Didn’t Work for My Baby. Here’s What I Did
Parenting doesn’t come with a manual, but I learnt a lot when I became a first-time mother. It was a great feeling — he was someone that I had to keep healthy and happy forever. I was a quick learner...
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On Duty 24×7, Haryana Cop Reunites 500 Kids With Their Families in 5 Years
In 2017, Rajesh Kumar, the Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Panchkula’s Anti Human-Trafficking unit was on his way to Dehradun with a 15-year-old boy. He was on a mission to trace the families of such...
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Startup’s App And Debit Card Teaches Teens The Finance Lessons That Schools...
One of life’s most important skills is money management. While most of us are forced to learn this only as an adult, four friends (who are also graduates of BITS Pilani) – Pallavi Tipparaju, Viraj...
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Hyderabad Couple Homeschools Daughters on a 13000 Km Long Trip Across 15 States
Ananya and Amulya Gangadhar, nine-year-old twin girls from Hyderabad, will never forget how the water cycle or cyclic nature of water (rain falls – water vapour rises – cloud forms – rain falls again)...
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Want Your Child to Read? Bookstore Owner Knows Exactly How to Turn Kids into...
“The right book for the right person is not enough. It needs to be the right book, for the right person at the right time.” Johnny Uzan This quote seems very apt for what Amit Sarin (39), the...
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Meet the School Girl Who Won a Global Award For Designing a Solar Ironing Cart
Thinking of ways to reduce the impact of pollution is on everyone’s minds. Some are working on methods to reduce air pollution by introducing or adopting electric vehicles and some are trying to reduce...
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Meet 15-YO Gitanjali Rao Who’s Just Become TIME’s First Ever ‘Kid of the Year’
It’s that time of the year when magazines across the world publish various lists; of accomplishments and people behind those achievements. Indian American Gitanjali Rao, who is all of fifteen has been...
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This Pune Program Lets Your Child Meet & Chat With a Real Scientist Online
Children are curious beings, eager to learn and explore. They ask simple questions, like “Why should I eat this food?” or deeper ones like “Why is the moon round?” or “Why is the grass green?” While...
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From a One-Room Dwelling in a Mumbai Slum, 18-YO Clears NEET to Secure MBBS Seat
In Mumbai’s Govandi slum, where the poverty and illiteracy rate are high, an 18-year-old girl is challenging the stereotypical gender norms to achieve greatness. According to a news report, Govandi’s...
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