“A man is a social animal” well if this saying goes to be true, then communication would be one of the most important factor to prevent a life of solitude. Everybody has a right to express their feelings and thoughts without stinting. The understanding between a parent and a child is one of the most important parts of the bond which they share; the sad part is that the gap is constantly increasing as you grow older. After being together for years, instead of being attached are you getting detached? (more…)
This is a blog site which describes and tackles problems faced by almost every parent. It provides ideas, tricks, etc. to get friendlier with your children. Many parents start realizing that the child they raised in front of their very eyes is now transforming into a rebellious teenager. If you are one such parent who has been facing problems lately and has noticed a significant negative change in your Childs behavior this blog is for you.
This blog is a wonderful blend of everything a parent of a growing child needs to know. It has got games, activities, articles, etc. It has proved to be very helpful for parents who want their child to discover their hidden talent and understand his or her responsibilities. This Blog site itself has links to other blogs. You can always check out other links provided by this site. A piece of advice, just don’t lose yourself as this website makes you keep coming for more.
This blog site is actually made up of articles, it also consists of famous articles printed in newspapers. It is based to meet the holistic group of parents and talks about almost all the problems. The feature of this blog site which makes it interesting is that, it consists of queries from other parents regarding their children and the measures to be taken in order to solve problems. The problems range from tooth fairy to teen pregnancy.
This is one of the most common blog sites for parenting. As the world advances along with different societies, there are various problems faced by the people living in the same society. The common problems are etiquette, manners and discipline. Adapting to a new society may take a significant amount of time, it needs patience and help. The blog site is very helpful in some of the issues mentioned above and can be really interesting for people who need to know more about helping their child mix with society.
After watching the above video, you may realize that there are many children or even your own child who might be facing such a problem. Well, every child passes through such a phase in life and every parent has to help their child in getting over it using various techniques. The video above symbolizes child who is being forced to study and is not allowed to play. This continues until at one point the child cannot take bear the load and collapses. The video talks about this un-intentional which many children go through. Later in the video u can see that the child is given some games along with books. This symbolizes that he is allowed to play and study. This creates a balance in the child’s life and thus, there is no stress. I hope after viewing this video, you can understand your child better.
The advertisement above as made by me; Sakhi Ganeriwala as a student of Mahatma Gandhi International School. As part of our 10 grade assessment process, we were asked to choose a social or environmental issue and formulate its awareness through an ad. We were provided with equipments and any other resources we required from the school and were provided quality help from our moderators and teachers. As everyone chose different topics, I chose food wastage. In the beginning of my project, I conducted a survey to choose between three issues; food wastage, monuments and air pollution. Being the 2nd most wanted, food wastage fascinated me and I felt it to be a different issue.
As I researched deeper into my chosen topic, I did not want to create an advertisement on simple ‘waste of food’, of how it happens. I found out, people had various reasons or in better words, excuses to wasting food. Therefore, I developed an advertisement displaying the different excuses of food wastage.
I feel today, beggars including children, adults and people of all age groups try and find ways to earn money; try and find excuses for people to lend them money so they can sleep with filled stomachs. On the other hand, people living in proper living standards come up with excuses to wasting food. Amazing contrast, isn’t it?
So many people sleep with an empty stomach along the hope of earning a bit of money the next day. Moreover, people like you and me do not take into consideration this fact. While throwing our food away, we don’t think about those people on the street-those which can be fed and nourished from the food we throw away. These were some of the reasons I chose this particular topic.
Food Wastage attracted me as I thought of it as a major issue, especially in my community with the population bands and the food crisis. To figure out which excuses were popular; I conducted surveys through the society. As you see above, the three popular issues turned out to be- ‘too much food’, ‘not tasteful’ and ‘I don’t like it!’
Though I found these to be extremely lame excuses, it was the real truth; the truth that I wanted to spread through different people and make them aware of such an issue. Through our 2 month project, I collected actors, substituted them, decided sets, costumes and mainly; my target audience. Taking up a social issue, I had to be extremely clear on who I was targeting. Finally, I decided to target the adolescent age group. As I was shooting on my school campus, it gave me a good link. I could link my advertisement on the basis of the school context and student population.
Also, to make my advertisement extremely symbolized, each and every shot and scene in my ad is filmed in the cafeteria of my school. Though this is an unnoticeable fact, I felt this to have extreme symbolizes with my topic and its aura.
Till date, Amdavadis have paid Rs 45 lakh in fines for not wearing helmets in just three months and another Rs 27 lakh for not buckling up their seat belts. It seems like it doesn’t bother them to follow the rules even if they have to may so much money in penalty.
According to a survey, last year in 2008, the Ahmedabad citizens paid upto Rs 3.16 crore and this year the amount has already reached upto Rs 77 lakh!
The traffic police suggests’ Amdavadis like to ride their machines without a care in the world’.
People actually seem to not care about paying so much money, when they can easily follow the traffic rules. Following the traffic rules is NOT going to be heavy on their pocket!
And infact, the law has been established for people to keep safe and also encourage others to keep safe. Still they are not caring about their lives or money.
When it comes to seat belt safety, out of all the people who drive cars, MANY of them haven’t been seen wearing a seat belt. To be precise, in 2008, the no. of people held without a seat belt were 77,173 and the money recovered from them was about Rs 77, 10,000. This year from January 1 till March 31, the police have caught 27,691 people already who were not wearing the seat belt.
The deputy commissioner of police (traffic) MM Anarwala says’ whenever I stand at a traffic point I find 7 out of 10 without helmet. A large number of people drive cars without fastening their seat belt without realizing that in the unfortunate event of an accident, they will suffer less if they drive as prescribed’
And it is so true! Everybody knows! It’s not like they don’t know!
But they don’t care…
It is not only the case of Ahmedabad; this is just a city update.
It is a case all over the country in many places and even outside India.
So WEARING A SEAT BELT AND FOLLOWING THE TRAFFIC OR DRIVING RULES IS ONLY GOING TO KEEP YOU AND YOUR MONEY SAFE!
source for this post: Ahmedabad mirror, Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I will shortly we uploading an ad I made for the Indian Government as a part of my technology project to promote Mid Day Meals. The purpose of this ad is to spread awareness through media to those who are unaware of this scheme. The ad was directed, shot and edited by me with guidance from my technology teachers.
I shot at a school called located approximately 20 kms from Ahmedabad, a large city in the state of Gujarat located in western India. It was a beautiful school with large areas of vacant land. Social integration amongst the children was commendable and working with them was an experience all together! They were creative, obedient and clever individuals with great potential and enthusiasm. Both the times I visited their school, I was touched by the atmosphere and drawn to the fact that other children should also be provided with facilities to help them grow into independent human beings.
More technically speaking, this was a vigorous project which required long hours and hard work and responsibility while using the expensive electronic equipment. The video camera I have used to shoot this ad is the Song HDVand the editing software I used was imovie ( available on mac computers only) it was a relatively simple software to edit with.
Millions of children in India sleep unfed every day. Their school career is interrupted because of constant money constraints. Instead of going to school, young children are made to work alongside their parents to gather a decent amount of income to run the house hold for basic necessities such as food and shelter. This disables the child of education which can secure his life in the future.
Children living in the circumstances mentioned above are provided with little or no food and remain illiterate for their entire life. Their parents do not enrol them in school because that would mean spending more money and less income if the child does not work. The parent’s ideology makes sense but it leads to an illiterate nation and abuse of children. The central government of India began the mid day meal scheme to reach across the nation and help eradicate malnutrition and class room hunger. Free meals were also used as an incentive to convince more rural parents to send their children to school. Other prime reasons included gender equality, enhancement of cultural diversity between the peer group and extermination of descriminaition between castes.
On September 28th 2001, a law was passed by the Supreme Court of India, to ensure the incorporation of each Indian state with regard to the mid day meals scheme.
Within 6 months, all state governments were asked to provide children attending government schools with a mid day meal free of all costs to the child.
(i) It is the case of the Union of India that there has been full compliance with regard to the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS). However, if any of the States gives a specific instance of non-compliance, the Union of India will do the needful within the framework of the Scheme.
(ii) We direct the State Governments/ Union Territories to implement the Mid-Day Meal Scheme by providing every child in every Government and Government assisted Primary Schools with a prepared mid day meal with a minimum content of 300 calories and 8-12 grams of protein each day of school for a minimum of 200 days. Those Governments providing dry rations instead of cooked meals must within three months start providing cooked meals in all Govt. and Govt. aided Primary Schools in all half the Districts of the State ( in order of poverty ) and must within a further period of three months extend the provision of cooked meals to the remaining parts of the State.
(iii) We direct the Union of India and the FCI to ensure provision of fair average quality grain for the Scheme on time. The States/ Union Territories and the FCI are directed to do joint inspection of food grains. If the food grain is found, on joint inspection, not to be of fair average quality, it will be replaced by the FCI prior to lifting.
However, despite the government efforts, many states refused to follow the orders. There still remains fistful of states which have not complied or lack participation till date.
Though the mid day meal scheme has not achieved complete national participation, the midday meal programme covers 11.97 crores of school children across India. These children study between classes I to VII and are a part of the 12.79 lakh schools which provide mid day meals.
[2]The government entitles each child 1 fresh, hot mid day meal every working school day. Government schools are supplied with food grains by the central govern ment, free of all costs. Children studying in classes I-V (primary classes) must receive 100 gm food grain, 20 gm pulses and 50 gm vegetables each day. Children studying in classes VI –VIII (upper primary) must receive150 gm food grain, 30gm pulses and 75 gm vegetables each day. The cooking expenses are provided by the central government to each state/union territory. For primary classes, Rs. 1.58 is spent per student per day. Similarly, Rs. 2.10 is spent per student per day studying in upper primary classes. However, the North eastern states receive Rs.1.89 and Rs 2.42 respectively per child, per day.
[1]Extracted from: INDIA, SUPREME COURT OF. “SUPREME COURT ORDER OF NOVEMBER 28, 2001 .”Right to food. http://www.righttofoodindia.org/orders/nov28.html (accessed January 14, 2009).
“Who cares?” this is the general attitude of people all over the world towards things that have a potential of making a big hole in their lives and destroying them for a lifetime. for instance, I take an example of traffic or driving rules. How many of you out there actually follow them? As a matter of fact very few actually do and most of them don’t even realize when they don’t follow the rules because in reality they don’t care!
When things like campaigns, ads or certain reminders from peers try to make a man, who doesn’t follow traffic rules, to realize that he should do that- and in any case it is only going to help him- he couldn’t care less. There are many people with such a mentality that they don’t want to listen either because they think these things don’t matter and they wont have any importance or also in many cases they might think ‘it’s not cool’. This is something that one would here only from a teenager. To think that to follow the rules is not cool, please don’t think this AT ALL that to NOT follow the rules would be cool. Because then you might end up in a very ‘uncool’ state after all.
kids, teenagers...all need to
There have been many cases and many many situations where a majority of teenagers have lost their lives in car accidents just because of their carelessness and their attitude towards ‘rules’. There are certain rules in life one should follow at least just to decrease the risk of ending up dead.
Not wearing a belt could be hazardous in both ways: either you get a ticket or you get a ticket to hell!-or heaven-wherever you might end up!!
The truth is it is high time and we all should take care and responsibility of our actions.
Every time you sit in the car, whether you’re at the driver’s seat or at the passenger’s seat or back seat or even at the top!-take care that you wear a seatbelt and if you see someone without it, just kindly ask them to wear it. It is also an adult’s responsibility to check whether a child below the age o 14 is wearing a seatbelt or not.
Especially teenage individuals who don’t wear seatbelts, please you have to know and you have to be aware that buckling up can help. It really can decrease the risk of early death!
This is not a myth or something that could never happen to just anyone. Infact, it can happen to anyone. If you face an accident, unless something doesn’t come crashing through your windows or your wind shield and if something doesn’t smash right over your car, it is quite possible that if you’re wearing a seatbelt, you might survive with the most minor injuries. The easiest injury would just be a shock!
So, my only message here is that next time please wear a seatbelt…it’s for safety.
Next time you sit in the car, hear the clicks as many number of times as much the people are in the car! if you click it you won’t get the ticket!
As part of the ‘technology cycle 1’ of MYP year 5 moderations, we made commercial on social issues. We worked through many stages of the technology cycle, beginning with investigate till create and then evaluated the process. The video in this article is a product of the whole process. I chose to work on the issue of cell phone driving because I feel that like underage driving; using cell phone while driving is also an undesired attempt to suicide. A study by Professor David Strayer states that “If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the wheel with a cell phone, their reaction times are the same as a 70-year-old driver who is not using a cell phone.” I looked at a variety of alternatives to avoid the use of cell phone while driving. But finally I concluded that not picking up the cell phone while it is ringing is the best alternative as using hands-free does not reduce the risk of accident. This is proved by a statistical report of the NHTSA which says that the number 1 source of driver inattention is use of a wireless device. The story of the commercial is based on the perspective of a man. It shows a comparison between the the view of a builiding while driving without and while talking on phone while driving. The tilted view of the man is exaggerated to create the desired impact and to make the avertisemet humorous. Traffic rules are made by a country’s traffic department to assure the safety of the citizens. And so I believe that obeying to traffic rules is a moral duty of every citizen.
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