Introduction to Homeschooling with Pranuti Satyadass - Episode 60

Homeschooling is not about children doing online schooling from home. Well, what is it exactly ? In this episode, we meet Pranuti Satyadass, who has experience in homeschooling her kids and who guides other parents in this journey.   If you already know about homeschooling, this episode will help clarify more. We explore several questions around the benefits, challenges and what it takes to homeschool your children.   This is a very important topic that you, as a New Indian Woman, would benefit from knowing about, even if you think this topic is not relevant for you.   So, listen on..   What the New Indian Woman podcast is about   As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and propose ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  we meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the first category.   And in the process, my aim is to help  you, The New Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.   What's in this episode:   Pranuti starts with explaining what homeschooling really means, with parents being the main facilitators and in charge of their children's education with the children not being affiliated to any institute.   We get into the typical trigger points for parents opting for homeschooling for their children. Pranuti talks about the top 2 reasons for her - to focus on the strengths of her children and to ensure they spend a lot of time with each other. She also shares the other reasons why parents typically take up this decision.   She talks about using one's resources in the best way possible for one's children - in terms of time, money, engagement and energy.   Pranuti goes on to share about how this is generally perceived by people who are not aware of homeschooling and how the situation has improved over the past decade, but it still remains a bold step.   Pranuti then discusses the top questions asked by parents, be it around the board exams, about future prospects and social life and goes on to dispel the myths around each of these.   We then discuss about how a typical day would be and how by lunch time the academics part of the day is over!   We get on to discuss the challenges around doing this when both parents are working and even examine the feasibility of homeschooling. She then clarifies how one can talk about conventional schooling vs homeschooling, how the parent becomes more knowledgeable during this journey and how the parent facilitates the involvement of tutors as required and how the parent's focus on finding a way out keeping the child's best interests, helps.   When it comes to older children, we examine some of the techniques required to handle their aspirations, be it in terms of trying out conventional schooling and helping them with decision making and being accountable. We also discuss when would be the best time to start homeschooling.   Pranuti then shares the number of homeschoolers in a city like Bangalore and how this is catching up across India.   Pranuti poses a set of very valid questions that should help us think through, for the sake of the children in our lives.   Hope you enjoyed knowing more about home schooling.   Please write to me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com or reach out to our social media pages to share your views on this episode.   If you liked this episode, please help this reach more people by sharing this podcast with friends and family over Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. Don’t forget to like our Facebook page.   Get in touch   Website : http://thenewindianwoman.com Facebook : http://facebook.com/newindianwoman Email : krishna@thenewindianwoman.com Twitter : https://twitter.com/thenewindianwo1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thenewindianwoman   To Connect with the guest   Email: pranubunyan@gmail.com Video referred to in the podcast: https://www.vigeo.in/post/homeschooling     Subscribe Use the link corresponding to your favourite Podcast App to listen to the latest episode and do not forget to click on Subscribe :   Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/googleniw  Castbox :http://bit.ly/castboxniw Apple Podcast :http://bit.ly/appleniw Stitcher :http://bit.ly/stitcherniw Spotify :http://bit.ly/spotifyniw Radiopublic: http://bit.ly/radiopublicniw Podbean: http://bit.ly/podbeanniw TuneIn: http://bit.ly/tuneinniw

Prof. Jayanthasri - for Women in their 40s and above

The final part of this 3 part series with Prof. Jayanthasri Balakrishnan is for the woman who is having older children who may suddenly feel redundant in their lives. In Part 1, i.e. episode 57, we examined questions pertaining to women in their 20s to 30s and in Part 2, we focused upon women in their 30s to 40s.   If you haven't heard about the very popular Prof, Jayanthasri Balakrishnan, I am very happy for this podcast to introduce her and her thoughts to you!   We talk a lot about parenting of a different kind, where parenting as a primary responsibility comes down and the need for women to adapt to this phase in life. Dr. Jayanthasri guides us for this phase of life with very simple examples.     So, listen on..   What the New Indian Woman podcast is about   As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and propose ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  we meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the second category.   And in the process, my aim is to help  you, The New Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.   What's in this episode:     Dr. Jayanthasri starts off with how we all learnt cycling without the side wheels, but how we have become the side wheels for our children, creating a lot of noise! She highlights the importance of teaching them how to go.   She conveys the importance of having parenting as an important chapter in the book of our life, but without that being the only chapter.   She says distancing ourselves from our children is the best we can do for them. It is important for them to make mistakes, but to know that we, as parents, are there for them.  They should feel confident about that, about being able to come back to the parents, not with a sense of guilt, but with a sense of apology.   She talks about how, as a parent, you can be absent and can still make the child feel your presence. She also conveys the need for parents to understand the role of a custodian vs being a controller.   Then we start talk about renewing the relationship with the partner, wherein Dr. Jayanthasri, talks about the importance of nurturing it throughout one's life. She narrates a few examples from her life, where the challenges of daily life seemed to raise many issues and the kind of help and perspective she received and how these are important in a relationship.   As we wind up, she shares the biggest virtue, its not about Forgive and Forget, but something much more, to lead a satisfied life, with its ups and downs.   I enjoyed interacting with her and listening to her inputs across the various life stages. How about you ?   Please write to me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com or reach out to our social media pages to share your views on this episode.   If you liked this episode, please help this reach more people by sharing this podcast with friends and family over Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. Don’t forget to like our Facebook page.   Get in touch   Website : http://thenewindianwoman.com Facebook : http://facebook.com/newindianwoman Email : krishna@thenewindianwoman.com Twitter : https://twitter.com/thenewindianwo1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thenewindianwoman   To Connect with the guest   LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/jayanthasri-balakrishnan-a8845734 Twitter: https://twitter.com/jayanthasribal1 Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/JayanthasriOfficial     Subscribe Use the link corresponding to your favourite Podcast App to listen to the latest episode and do not forget to click on Subscribe :   Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/googleniw  Castbox :http://bit.ly/castboxniw Apple Podcast :http://bit.ly/appleniw Stitcher :http://bit.ly/stitcherniw Spotify :http://bit.ly/spotifyniw Radiopublic: http://bit.ly/radiopublicniw Podbean: http://bit.ly/podbeanniw TuneIn: http://bit.ly/tuneinniw

Prof. Jayanthasri - for Women in their 30s to 40s - Episode 58

Part 2 of this 3 part series with Prof. Jayanthasri Balakrishnan is for the woman who is likely to be in the busiest stage of her life, taking big long term decisions about her life, lifestyle and parenting choices. In Part 1, i.e. episode 57, we examined questions pertaining to women in their 20s to 30s.   If you have'nt heard about the very popular Prof, Jayanthasri Balakrishnan, I am very happy for this podcast to introduce her and her thoughts to you!   We talk a lot about parenting and how a woman's role in parenting is a choice and how she should look it at responsibly. We move on to talking about time, using time especially and she shares 2 important tips to find more time in the 24 hours that we all have.   So, listen on..   What the New Indian Woman podcast is about   As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and propose ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  we meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the second category.   And in the process, my aim is to help  you, The New Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.   What's in this episode:   We start with the topic of being busy and using "busyness" as an excuse for just about surviving, trying to figure out all the important decisions to be made at this stage in life. Dr. Jayanthasri talks about how parenting is a responsibility where there is no proxy parenting, no part time parenting, no perfect parenting either. There is no charity about taking care of one's own child, there need not be a sense of sacrifice, because it is a choice.   The points covered include the importance of giving room for a child's independence despite all the arrogance and seemingly audacious behaviour from the child, due to the challenges of age. At the same time, she cautions us not to try to become your child's friend.  She highlights the importance of listening to the child, even if you are not entertaining the same idea.  She also explains the danger of us not taking this important responsibility seriously.   She says the sense of parenting cannot be changed with time, while the expressions change with time, over generations.  She then explains to us about intuition and instinct and how parenting includes both.   Prof. Jayanthasri then goes on to talk about this notion of sacrificing for one's children and she says people who talk about sacrifice are people who cannot come out of a sense of selfpity. A mother will be a better mother if she stops talking about sacrifice, because any way she is wired that way.   She then goes on to explain her concept of time - not about creating or managing time, but using time, valuing time. And then she shares 2 tips for making best use of one's time.   She then narrates an incident in her life and how she should have forgotten and forgiven her son for something he had said many years ago, but she is unable to. And how she had to be clear on what to focus upon.   She shares her philosophy about using time very carefully, a philosophy that has not changed in the last 20 years!   Don’t' you want to know it ?   I wish I had the opportunity to listen to her talks when I was in this life stage! But then, I realize there are learnings for me that I can apply to my life, now! So, do give this episode a listen.   Please write to me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com or reach out to our social media pages to share your views on this episode.   If you liked this episode, please help this reach more people by sharing this podcast with friends and family over Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. Don’t forget to like our Facebook page.   Get in touch   Website : http://thenewindianwoman.com Facebook : http://facebook.com/newindianwoman Email : krishna@thenewindianwoman.com Twitter : https://twitter.com/thenewindianwo1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thenewindianwoman   To Connect with the guest   LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/jayanthasri-balakrishnan-a8845734 Twitter: https://twitter.com/jayanthasribal1 Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/JayanthasriOfficial     Subscribe Use the link corresponding to your favourite Podcast App to listen to the latest episode and do not forget to click on Subscribe :   Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/googleniw  Castbox :http://bit.ly/castboxniw Apple Podcast :http://bit.ly/appleniw Stitcher :http://bit.ly/stitcherniw Spotify :http://bit.ly/spotifyniw Radiopublic: http://bit.ly/radiopublicniw Podbean: http://bit.ly/podbeanniw TuneIn: http://bit.ly/tuneinniw

Balancing Work and Home Part 2

In Part 1, we examined challenges faced by young Indian women w.r.t balancing work and home. What about older women ? What kind of challenges do they face ? Does it get easier as the children grow up and one is more comfortable or experienced in handling the responsibilities at home ? But what about the increased responsibilities on the career front ? How does the balancing work ?   Are there ways to address some of the challenges ? Are there learnings that one can use in one's own context ? Listen on ..   What the New Indian Woman podcast is about   As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and propose ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  we meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the first category.   And in the process, my aim is to help  you, The New Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.   What's in this episode:   In this episode also, there are 3 questions I focus on,  with both the guests, as relevant. What are the top 3 things they do to manage work and home well as a woman, their top productivity tip and about child care options.   Our guest who is a lecturer in an engineering college, talks about the need to be systematic and well organized. Later we delve into the details of what this means, from a day to day perspective. She talks about the importance of spending time with the family and seeking their support. She also goes into how simple and small steps can make a huge difference in our quality of daily life.   Her top productivity tip is not any specific tool - but about the mind.  And how to change your guilt feeling about not spending enough time with the family.   She shares how the demands of the time only increase when the children grow older. She then goes on to talk about the importance of not being in separate worlds!   We discuss the child care options or the lack of them and here she shares the struggles she went through and what worked for her and how she had to adapt continuously to cater to the child care situation.   She talks about the importance of understanding if the workplace environment is hostile, telling us there are lot of opportunities if one is intelligent and competent enough.   She goes on to share more details of the kind of challenges she went through and how she had to take professional help. She says the advice that helped her the most is about the need to accept that one cannot change others.   She stresses the importance of self-care, open communication and the need to adapt and accept things with more maturity. Plus, identifying where one needs help and then asking for the same.   Then, we move on to someone who is working in a senior position in IT with a son in college.  To the same questions, her response is about support system, importance of nurturing ourselves and to keep learning always. Her productivity tip is again very different and it is all around the awareness of what works best for oneself.   On child care, she shares how it is important to work towards building a support system. I cannot agree more when she says, it will not come and sit in your life.   It was interesting to also hear about their take on the guilty feeling that moms who are pursuing careers often go through.   These discussions are intended to let us understand and appreciate these perspectives. Plus, these should be prompts for us to examine our own challenges.   Hope you enjoy this episode. Please write to me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com or reach out to our social media pages to share your views on this episode.   If you liked this episode, please help this reach more people by sharing this podcast with friends and family over Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. Don’t forget to like our Facebook page. And please don’t forget to subscribe to the New Indian Woman Newsletter at https://newindianwoman.substack.com/   Get in touch   Website : http://thenewindianwoman.com Facebook : http://facebook.com/newindianwoman Email : krishna@thenewindianwoman.com Twitter : https://twitter.com/thenewindianwo1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thenewindianwoman Newsletter: https://newindianwoman.substack.com/   Subscribe Use the link corresponding to your favourite Podcast App to listen to the latest episode and do not forget to click on Subscribe :   Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/googleniw  Castbox :http://bit.ly/castboxniw Apple Podcast :http://bit.ly/appleniw Stitcher :http://bit.ly/stitcherniw Spotify :http://bit.ly/spotifyniw Radiopublic: http://bit.ly/radiopublicniw Podbean: http://bit.ly/podbeanniw TuneIn: http://bit.ly/tuneinniw

Life lessons and parenting tips from Dr Lalitha Regi - Part 2 - Episode 43

Dr.Lalitha Regi chose to live life and rear her children in a remote village. What did it mean for her, as a woman, as a mother ? And that too, while being active and busy saving the lives of hundreds of people over several villages, in so many different ways.   In Part 1, i.e., Episode 42, we talked about her engagement in the community as a medical Dr, growing a mud single room hospital to a 35 bedded Tribal Health centre, focussing on community health and then moving on to Farmers groups engaged in Organic agriculture and revival of the Lambadi art thru Porgai, thereby touching the lives of people in 20+ villages.   In reflecting on her life and the challenges she faced as well as her current dreams and aspirations, she shares important tips for all of us. If we are able to imbibe some of these into our lives, in terms of how we view challenges, how we view our finances, the struggles of daily life, our perspectives and focus on our children's education, indeed, there is a lot that can happen!!    Listen on ..   What the New Indian Woman podcast is about As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and proposes ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  We meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitates sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the second category.   And in the process, my aim is to help  you, The New Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.   What's in this episode:   Dr. Lalitha  shares it is quite natural for us to face ups and downs, but the conviction of doing right is what keeps us going. She refers to getting satisfaction out of doing right catering to the needs of others, as selfishness!   She talks about the challenges of raising children without being dependent on  the larger family's support, the courage it takes to not send to school and to allow education from the larger community. She surprises us by happily sharing how she and her husband played only a small part in their children's education.   Then she talks about the financial aspects, how they were fortunate to be in a position where they just had to focus on themselves and not the larger family. At the same time she once again surprises us by sharing how they choose to use the fellowship they received to give salaries to staff. We see the positiveness in her attitude when she says there is lot of goodwill circulating - this comes from having done many projects without any finances at the start, but having surplus towards the end.   In the context of finances she shares the importance of learning to live within one's resources, focus on basic needs and how they chose not to worry about children's education, but to trust things will happen as what they were doing was right.   She talks about the need to constantly evolve, adapt, learn and how that helped her to focus on running a hospital, community health, farming, craft, business. She shares the importance of understanding what is the need and responding to the need, with focus on training oneself, to be equipped with the relevant knowledge and skills.   Once again she surprises us by her conscious choice to lead a simple life and to nurture humility - she shares the influence her father had on this decision.   She shares how she handles her bad days - yes, there is a valuable tip here, for all of us.   She then shares her current dreams and also ends the conversations with 2 strong messages for all of us, for us to implement in our life.   I enjoyed recording this episode and learnt so many valuable lessons from this one discussion. I invite you to listen to this wonderful episode.   I would love to hear feedback from you on this episode. Write to me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com   If you liked this episode, please help this reach more people by sharing this podcast with friends and family over Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. Don’t forget to like our Facebook page.   To know more about the hospital, Porgai and the Farming Society Visit  http://www.tribalhealth.org/ https://porgai.org/   To Connect with the guest   Mail to : porgai@gmail.com Get in touch   Website : http://thenewindianwoman.com Facebook : http://facebook.com/newindianwoman Email : krishna@thenewindianwoman.com Twitter : https://twitter.com/thenewindianwo1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thenewindianwoman   Subscribe Use the link corresponding to your favourite Podcast App to listen to the latest episode and do not forget to click on Subscribe :   Castbox :http://bit.ly/castboxniw Apple Podcast :http://bit.ly/appleniw Stitcher :http://bit.ly/stitcherniw Spotify :http://bit.ly/spotifyniw Radiopublic: http://bit.ly/radiopublicniw Podbean: http://bit.ly/podbeanniw TuneIn: http://bit.ly/tuneinniw

Interview with Mala Giridhar - Part 2 - Episode 4

Chat with Mala Giridhar, a clinical psychologist from Sirsi. Let us find out the practical techniques that worked for her in performing her roles and her very interesting hobbies and bucket list items. As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and proposes ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  We meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitates sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them; like today's episode.   And in the process, my aim is to help  you, the new Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.   What's in this episode:   In this episode, Mala shares her thoughts on what freedom means to her, techniques that has helped her perform her roles and how to make running a home easier.   The challenges and some of the techniques shared are so relevant for each one of us, though our context may be different.    Please checkout the facebook page for the Occupational Rehabilitation Centre Chetana at www.facebook.com/chetanaproducts30/. You could leave a message there to get in touch with Mala.    Do share this episode with your friends  and do subscribe to www.thenewindianwoman.com website or email me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com    Picture : Mala harvesting figs at her home

Chat with Mala Giridhar - Part 1 - Episode 3

Description Chat with Mala Giridhar, a clinical psychologist from Sirsi. Let us find out how she was able to go beyond her job and run multiple projects for the community, impacting youngsters and their families, involving local resources. As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and proposes ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  We meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them; like today's episode. And in the process, my aim is to help you, the new Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.   What's in this episode: In this episode, Mala looks at her primary roles in her house, her movement from a big city to a small town and her projects and their unique nature. She shares her passion for her field of work and choosing projects that impact the community very closely related to her area of work. The challenges and some of the techniques shared are so relevant for each one of us, though our context may be different.  She talks about how home should be a place for us to share our frustrations, what helped her the most and challenges faced as a woman in Part 1 of this chat. Please checkout the facebook page for the Occupational Rehabilitation Centre Chetana at www.facebook.com/chetanaproducts30/. You could leave a message there to get in touch with Mala.  Do share this episode with your friends  and do subscribe to thenewindianwoman.com website or write to me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com. Picture : Mala harvesting figs at her home