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Positive Parenting at Ayelet Montessori

What drew me to the Montessori method in the beginning was the respect a child gets. When we talk about children, who form our world at Ayelet, we have to talk about parenting in the same breath.  'Parenting' for most of us has become a challenge to say the least. Unfortunately, we cannot compare our parenting styles to what our parents followed. A workshop on  'Positive Parenting' was organized by Ayelet last week, it was conducted by Gayathri Ananth. This session was aimed at trying to figure out how we as parents can improve our relationship with our children.  Gayathri is a very renowned children and adolescent counselor based in Bangalore. The workshop was a beautiful experience, thanks to the trainer for customising it based on the people who attended the workshop. We talked about the basic challenges we go through as parents; tantrums, whining, sulking, screen addiction, etc. We also looked into conventional ways of disciplining like hitting, scolding and

Why Ayelet? What does Ayelet even mean?

When we envisioned our Montessori, even before we decided on the name, we knew we wanted a place where children can experience a 'TRUE MONTESSORI'. We wanted to give little children, who enter a new world, a place which will be their little home away from home. A place where they explore, learn, feel safe and more than anything a place which helps them shine. We wanted to choose a name that gives away just that and more. Ayelet is a word we chose after going through a lot of names. It is a Hebrew word, which means ‘Brightest Morning Star’. 'Ayelet' defines our goal to create a safe, bright, rich, stimulating school environment for children, which will stay with them for life. Ayelet aims at fostering a community of children, educators and families, to support the optimum development of the child for life. At Ayelet, we are super happy with what we have created. And we would love to reach out to as many young children (and parents) as possible.