4th June 2010
"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."
There are certain things which cannot be changed by us. We need to adapt ourselves to manage change. The future is bright, but the going will be tough. The opportunity that we are going to have will come with its own challenges. We need to become fit to exploit all the opportunities that the future is going to offer.
We need to keep this in mind while growing up our children. The skills and abilities that are required to manage the future will be completely different from the skill that were required today or even in the past. That is why in organisations employees are taken through what is called executive and management training.
Life is also an organisation in which our children should produce certain results and outcome. Just like an executive is prepared and trained to meet the business challenges, our children should also be trained and developed to manage the problems they are going to face in their life.
Just like the human resources manager takes care of the development of the executives, the parents should take the responsibility to develop the soft skills in their children. I repeat, the parents should take up this responsibility, and not the school. The schools can concentrate on the syllabus and may be to some extent on the soft skill development.
Basic survival skills such as communication, assertiveness, time management, leadership, motivation, empowerment, lateral thinking, creativity, interpersonal rapport building etc are very important to succeed in life.
Over this weekend, can you ponder over this idea and eke out a plan of action to meet this requirement in your child?
N C Sridharan
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