Evaluation without exams by Aruna Raghavan In our schools we have no exams. And every one I meet asks the same questions. How do you mark your children? By percentage? By grades? Do you have unit tests? How do you average at the end of the year? And when I say we have...
Glenn Doman – Evaluation without exams
Evaluation without exams by Aruna Raghavan In our schools we have no exams. And every one I meet asks the same questions. How do you mark your children? By percentage? By grades? Do you have unit tests? How do you average at the end of the year? And when I say we have...
Glenn Doman – Teaching Science to your child
Teaching Science to your child by Aruna Raghavan One of the best things in life have been given the impossible title 'physics'; and having given them that, we assiduously try to forget they exist. Yet, children discover most of the laws of nature and with great joy....
Glenn Doman – Emotional Growth
Emotional Growth by Aruna Raghavan They could each write only 5 sentences on each child. The first two should contain what they like best about the friend. The second two should contain one quality they would like to see changed or modified. The last any special...
Glenn Doman – Poetry and your child
Poetry and your child by Aruna Raghavan We are all Pygmalions. We like to make, remake, put our heads to a side, shake it and re remake our children. The perfect child is always the neighbour's until it lives with us for a week! If our child loves the rain, then we...
Glenn Doman – Integrate learning
Integrate learning by Aruna Raghavan At school here we had Kanimozhi, a precocious child of four and a first generation literate. She learnt with her whole being', giving her a unique prodigious 'memory'. She was like a bird, eager and chirpy. In a few months she...
Glenn Doman – The beauty of words
The Beauty of Words by Aruna Raghavan Every language is rich because man is constantly amazed by what he sees around him. It is a hard task to coin words to match the beauty in front. Yet, has man found words. And those words are the adjectives. To teach a child to...
Glenn Doman – Reading to your child
Reading to your child by Aruna Raghavan If reading is a pleasure, reading out aloud is an art. First, there is the choice of material. It should be of great interest to the listener. But more so the book should interest the person who reads aloud. Reading aloud to a...
Glenn Doman – Teaching the Five Senses
Teaching the Five Senses by Aruna Raghavan On his own, without interference from the adults around. A lady told him with great pride that she had not taught her 5 year old anything. The philosopher said, "Madam, you have wasted five years; go home immediately and...
Glenn Doman – Teaching Babies to Read
Teaching Babies to Read by Aruna Raghavan For two weeks now, I have been talking about our personal experience with teaching our own child and how we use the method with other children. The question that the reader has is: can I teach mine? So, here is an easy step by...
Glenn Doman – Reading: How Your Child Progresses
How Your Child Progresses by Aruna Raghavan Last week we began with a very simple reading program. We continue with it this week. But first : When we found that Nirupama could read effortlessly, we began with her writing. We found a miracle : she made no mistakes in...
Glenn Doman – Reading without being taught
Reading without Being Taught by Aruna Raghavan "And please bring Nirupama with you." That was an invitation to meet Shri C. Subramaniam when he was the Governor of Maharashtra. Nirupama was our three and a half year old who was taught by us at home : to read and to do...