A MOM, A TEACHER AND THE TERROR

Latent qualities discovered during pandemic.

- Srina P. Nair

Looking back, I could have done some pre-school teachers training instead whiled studying business administration.

Covid struck in a way that not only did it shut the schools but the world at large. It was just beyond one's wildest dreams.

All mommies and some daddies, too, suddenly became self proclaimed teachers for their now home-schooled kids.

Two years on! I too became one for our little daughter, in UKG now.

‘O yaay!! No schools!!’ I beamed with hands up and joy when it began!

“Ah! Teaching my kindergarten kid would be a cakewalk, it would be just basics, alphabets, rhymes and so on,” I thought confidently.

Little did I know that the army of my education till post graduation would mean nothing in front of a fortress named Montessori teaching. Looking back, I could have done some preschool teachers training instead whiled studying business administration.

From how to hold apencil to sitting still on a chair during the class, number names to subtraction, Roman numbers, phonics sounds wait a minute, have you ever…EVER... in your life heard about alphabet phonic sounds?

My hubby and I haven’t, until this day... let’s leave that topic… okay... baad mein baat karte hain…baad mein…

“Papa!!! Pa… Papaa… the internet not workinggg… not connectinggg!!!” she yells, “Come fast…” without waiting she takes her book sized tab classroom towards her dad to fix the problem.

“Uh!! It's an issue from the teacher's side!!” he exclaims.