The Progressive School Vol 04 Issue 01

and syllabus,
evaluation and
measurement,
teachers’ orientation
and enrichment.
Moreover, parents’ pressure,
peers’ pressure, learninginefficiencies
and deficiencies,
numerous hazy attractions and
distractions, ambitions and competitions
also cause stress, anxieties, withdrawal
syndrome, rejection and dejection, physical
and mental deterioration among youngsters.
The schools at the ground level face many
such new challenges while managing such
changing lifestyle and psyche. They have the
Herculean responsibility to maintain parentsteachers
balance, school and competitive
coaching balance while removing the obstacles
like learning-deficiency and succeeding in their
pedagogical aims and objectives. They also have
the additional accountability of andragogical
guidance and counseling to the parents. They
now necessarily have to play the role of mentor
and facilitator, moderator and motivator,
educator and goal-setter while dealing
with the young-learners for their
character and career-building and
instilling the life skills in them
to make them successful
human resource with
national and global
soul.
TPS: Conflict
management is
becoming a vital life skill
for the younger generation
of today? This can be done only
with the support of the parents?
How do you think you can bring
synergy between the school rules and
regulations, parental expectations and
children’s social needs?
Swoyam: As a modern miasma, young
generation is now potentially afflicted with
self-conflict, indecisiveness, helplessness,
hopelessness, doubts and confusions. Hence,
the conflict management of youngsters is a very
vital life skill to be inculcated in them primarily
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by the parents at
home and teachers in
the school. Meticulous
parenting-patronage right
from childhood providing the children
balanced diet, emotional balance, basic
needs, healthy and positive attitude, moral
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Both parents
and teachers can
make a child a
good decisionmaker
and
conflict-manager
with knowledge
and information,
logic and reason,
confidence,
self-esteem and
social skills.
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