Dawn and Hope- Every day is a new beginning
As an educator, I love professional development activities that use our personality types, learning and teaching styles to help us reflect and get ready for our students! These activities give me glimpse into my inner self and it brings me interest as well as enthusiasm to incorporate them into my every day life. To give […]
As a parent and an educator, I believe that it is very important to not only teach our kids academic knowledge but also skills and habits that will be helpful for them in future. Habits may take time to develop but once these are planted they take deep roots and reap us many benefits. In […]
The year has been a roller coaster for all of us. With the COVID- 19 pandemic starting as early as March, we’d barely started this decade in good spirits. With both the national and international cases of the pandemic rising and so many impacts, it is hard to say if anyone has not been impacted. […]
What is a positive attitude? Positivity or positive attitude is when you count your blessings looking at what all you have in your life and not the have-nots. How does having a positive attitude help us? According to numerous studies having a positive attitude makes us optimistic, kind and compassionate towards others and helps us […]
What is a hobby? Do you believe that our kids and even we have fewer hobbies than our parents or when we were growing up? Anything done in your free time for the sake of pleasure is a hobby! A hobby can give creativity, passion, interest and joy to your life! But it looks like […]
In a busy and hectic schedule that we all follow, it is very important to enjoy small joys in life. We need to balance our life, and taking out some time to count your blessings is as important as following your dreams and working hard towards it. If you are like me, there will be […]
Every month, around the middle or 15th, I send an email to my blog subscribers with an inspirational tip. For the month of June it was ten projects to work on before the end of summer. The previous monthly email tips included self care, how to be happy/content and spring break activities with kids at […]
Haven’t we all, at 1 time or the other, been encouraged by someone’s words? I am not talking about just the phrases of generalized praise, instead I am talking about personalized words said to you or written to you in a context of what you have done. We, as human beings, love to feel good […]
In trying times like this, when life takes a standstill, when we worry about what may come next, when we fear for our near and dear ones, when we are unsure about how long the uncertainty will last, when we just want to go back to normalcy, when we run out of ideas of what […]
It is always a good idea to reflect on your life periodically. Have you ever said something that has changed someone’s life? Have you been kind to someone? Have you given your time to someone? Have you given a lending ear to someone who needed it? Have you been a mentor? Have you given back […]