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Discipline....

What is this discipline all about? We hear about this term “Discipline” from the time we were young and continues almost at every stage of our life.. Type in the word and you have umpteen quotes, articles, books, strategies, Do’s, Don’ts, People, Life and everything that revolves around “Discipline”

Hmmm...Think about how much does this word exists in your life??

Look at your day and somewhere or the other this word creeps in different forms and proportions...

If you have a child in your life or child - close to your life then this word is even more dearer.... !!!

And if you are a Teacher then you can’t ever dream of keeping this away even for a day in your life...It’s like your basic app that exists in your phone - without which you cannot operate your phone....

How about looking at discipline from a totally different view and trying the same? 

Let's look at a few scenarios a classroom & how we could approach the same through different lens...

Child not doing homework  - 
  • Get the children to make a Homework Monster - The troublesome monster - Helps them??? Try it...
  • Write a love letter to Homework
  • Do all the homework yourself - Surprised??? Try it a day :)

Children not doing Homework


Child back answers or insults the teacher - So what do we do when the child back answers or insults - Try these things - 
  • Make a "Thank You" card and give it to the child - Give it a shot! :)..
  • Do the role play of the same scenario with the child - You become the Child & vice-versa
  • Express your feelings to the child in the form of a Song - In the classroom the mighty classroom I felt very Hurt toooodaaaayyy!!! {The lion sleeps tonight tune ;)!!! ....In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight  :)}


Child back answers or insults the teacher


Children Bullying - You see children bullying eachother - Try these -

Children talking in the classroom -


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