Reaching a students mind
Parents of “today” are often kaanFused(confused) about “what's going on in my child's mind? 😧 🤔”
( That's not beCause that today's kid of 9 yrs is high_tech_complex. Our ears( kaan,) are fused to subtle listening 😜 ( mind's chatter)
Not that I ‘qualified’ myself ‘academically’ into a big psychiatrist 🙏. Sometimes a drowning guy happens to learn to stay afloat under constraints 😓. ( I volunteered for backup support of spiritual program for 6+ years. Insight into minds got bulldozed into me😭)
A joke:
I give a title to this joke : JUST_PASS (😂)
1998 or so….this story!
A dejected mom in our neighborhood wailed requesting my sister: “ can you please do something? My daughter always falls short of a few marks to pass in her maths exam. The tuition teacher refunded this month's advance_fee saying ‘i can't help this kid to pass the 3rd standard annual exam in maths’. Only few days left🙏😓”
My sister with her disclaimer:” i am willing to try, but no guarantee, when a professional tuition teacher has given_up”.
I saw my sister struggling to ‘speak’ to that kid, being an asthmatic. I said, “just pass? Let me try”
I did a little spade_work.
Narrowed down to a ‘sure chapter’ in maths where that kid is ALSO SURE to flop 😜
Fractions — ( the ‘type’ of koschans/questions, made my job too EASIER. But, the teacher had thought of that type to make her_job easier😜. )
Koschan model= “identify & mark the proper & improper Fractions in the following:
a)⅘, b)9/7, c)16/23, d)⅜ (etc)
Moms look at such questions, keeping her child's innocent ‘face’ in the mind and think : “ 😡😡😡 बच्चे की जान लोगे क्या???”( Do you intend to squeeze the ‘life’ out of MY dear child???)
My software (own A.I.)
I knelt down on fours. Asked my brother's daughter ( in 2nd class, yet to hear that monstrous word “FRAC_SHUNS”, rhyming like fracture_de_bone) to climb on my back( piggy_ride).
Asked that blank_eyed kid : “who is bigger ? Me, or this girl riding my back?”
Student: you.
Me : is it not okay/proper for a smaller kid to sit on a larger_me?
Student: Yes! Weight is bearable 👍
Now, i asked my niece to kneel down on 4’s. I feigned ‘riding’ on her, taking care not to”park” my bottom on that tiny girl🙏 ( जान नहीं लेना चाहिए था 😓। No intention to snatch that innocent ‘life’). Kept a 2 centimetres gap between her back and my bottom —weight on my bent_knees on either sides of her 😂)
Me : now? Who is bigger?
Student: you!!! She can't bear your weight 🙂 ( that ‘smile’ lit up my hopes 👍… “careful now” i warned myself… drive carefully, hairPin bends ahead, Ghat section! Tiny grasp might fall off steep_hill)
Me: is not BAD or improper for me a larger fellow to sit ‘upon’ a small child who is smaller_than_me?
Student: Yess. Bad …bad…
Me : okay, improper to do such bad things 🙏👍👍👍
Me: you know numerals 1,2,3,4,....99,999, 1,00,000?
Student: yes! Learn’t it in 1st itself👍
Me: good! Larger number later isn't it?
Kid : yes
Me: i write numbers one below the other ½, ⅔, etc …. But by mistake I wrote 10/9 😭
wrong isn't it? “Improper” says your ‘maths’ teacher👍 ( Gently squeezing-in the technical maths_term “improper “
Kid nodded ( that vocalised “yess” vanished😓. A warning sign of body_language for me🙏)
( After few more similar ‘gimmicks’)
Me : “Think of me & this tiny girl’s visuals in your question paper, while answering ‘Fractions’. Larger number will cause bone_fracture sitting above a small number. Scold it writing “improper 😡’’.... Rest of it “okay👍 proper”..
In short…… that kid PASSED 😜
That mom did google_pay of her “thanks” to my sister.
I tolded/told my sister : “don't worry , income tax returns don't mandate declaring income like ”thanks” under own PAN number in tax_returns👍”
Sister: “youuuuuu 😡😡😡”
( How can we ‘blame’ school teacher, managing 50 kids? Impractical to teach each kid with a ‘unique’ customized CIRCUS examples like this 😓🙏🙏🙏
And we parents are obligated by nature to infuse correct values in a kid during its FORMATIVE stages of Concepts_formation 🙏)
Thanklessly yours,
psn(30 Jul, 2026)
