The joy of being a student is often times underrated. Students have a habit about complaining about everything that goes wrong in their life and do not realise that there is a lot to be grateful for. Even at their lowest ebb, students need to learn to pick themselves up and turn every adversity into
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Parents have an important role to play in every aspect of their children’s life. It is dangerous for parents to take on the typical “helicopter parenting” approach as that imposes detrimental effects on the wellbeing of children. Playing an active role while still giving children the space and independence to explore themselves is absolutely important. It
Tutoring is a job that may seem easy on the outside but there is so much of depth and nuances to it. There are often so many stigmas and misconceptions associated with tutoring these days, especially since the way learning and educating has undergone its very own transformations. These misconceptions about this noble profession drives
The most challenging aspect of being an adolescent (apart from identity crisis, puberty, and relationship struggles and many others), is the fact that one has to learn to take up responsibilities. This transition from being a child to becoming an adult is truly a struggle and can be daunting on most. No one overtly teach what responsibility
“Once there, I shall so advance with the assistance I shall there get, that my present knowledge will appear to me but as childish ignorance.” says the protagonist in Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy. Hardy tells us that what we know now, would turn out to be an incomplete fact in future, or we would discover
Free advice is something that a lot of us love giving each other. We tell ourselves that we know better and give suggestions to others, and others would do the same for us in return. However, how far are this advice even accurate? A lot of us do not have a complete understanding about study
Stepping out of one’s comfort zone is not the easiest of tasks, yet it is absolutely essential to see some progress. It takes resilience and tenacity to keep travelling in the path laid in front of us because there will be numerous hurdles along the way. Parents teach their children this concept and from time
There are the good study techniques, and the bad ones, and there isn’t anything in between. The problem kicks in when one isn’t sure what works for them, because one size doesn’t fit all. We’re not cut from the same cloth and hence expecting a fixed set of techniques to work on everyone is just impractical. Private
Adolescence is a difficult period of time in everyone’s life. This is mainly because there are a lot of confusions on matters like self-identity, sexual orientation, and so on. This is the time when we think about what we like and dislike, we try to figure out ourselves and we also make choices in matters
Singapore parents are constantly concerned about which school they should send their children to. Every parent wants the best possible education for their child. This is the reason why parents ensure that they pick the best preschool, primary school, secondary school, junior college and so on, to ensure that the best is offered. Parents know that they