Is your child a high schooler and needing help to choose a stream to hone a career?
Here are a few more tips :
Hard work, honesty and consistency : This troika formula works wonders and motivates you to inch towards a goal. If your child is unable to make a study plan or future plan, do make time to be with them and research together.
All monkeys cannot hang from a branch : Each of us is talented, unique and what suits your friend will not suit you. This is also about personal goals and career aspiration.
Stay engaged in their routine : Ditch the TV or social media and spend at least 20 minutes talking to your child and exchanging your idea. Know their friends, do understand their social skills and help them have a hobby. Family time is very important for their self-esteem too. Being loved unconditionally helps them to grow and express freely.
Create an environment that allows them to study : Help them make a time table, get involved gently in their study goals and let them know that you are around. A balanced diet will help too. Breaks especially catering to outdoor activities helps the entire family unwind.
Explain to them the consequences : If your child is delaying or uses procrastination, they certainly need more love and assurance. It could also be a fear of performance. Make time with them and if required meet up with a counsellor.
Hurry, curry, worry : Hurry refers to a packed schedule and long hours of classes/college leaves them exhausted. Curry refers to unhealthy diet. The result is worry though it will be masked in low self-esteem, poor tolerance level, outbursts or self-isolation.
Pranay Gupta’s Father is an accomplished Chartered Accountant and mother Anju Gupta is an erstwhile physics professor and now forayed into healing.
Pranay’s unfolds his journey from having focussed on Astronautical Engineering and then choosing Culinary arts.
Pranay says, “Like every unconventional career choice, mine began with a very conventional Indian story, with Engineering. I was pursuing JEE and trying to crack into IIT. I was and I still am very interested in the science and physics of Astronautical Engineering. Things changed when the syllabus did not impress me.”
“My passion didn’t start off overnight, it began as a form of servitude, during Ganesh Chaturthi. Seeing the smiles on everyone’s faces as I served them delicious food was priceless. Eventually, it turned into watching my parents and my grandmom cook, youtube videos of recipes and cooking some myself. It wasn’t easy to convince my parents, as I scored well in my subjects.”
He adds, “Cooking is often considered a hobby and not a career path, and even the Internet said so! It took hours of research to find the truths about this industry, but I was convinced about culinary as a career. My parents are really amazing when it comes to noticing things, and they saw me losing interest in my classes, and research a lot about the Culinary Industry. I wrote my parents a handwritten letter to let them know that my passion lies in cooking and that will be my career too. Today, they are more than supportive, their eyes gleam as I cook and they love hearing great things about m and the chefs at CIA.”
This is a story of acceptance and confidence of parents and the conviction of a student to follow his passion.
Good Luck, Be a cool parent!
