Recent crime reports make me think that school kids need
counselling-on-demand. The existing counsellors make themselves available at
selective time (6pm - 9pm). There are full time counsellors available but
not enough promotion is done.
Then, school teachers who do a secondary level of parenting also need
counselling.
Third, the parents themselves need counselling on parenting.
The current system of education makes all the three - children, teachers,
and parents - stressful and constantly pressurized.
All the three try to cope up with the pressure but most of the time end up
doing 'wrong' thing.
For example, parents abuse kids for not having scored the highest mark.
Teachers become symbols of arrogance rather than knowledge provider. The
kids find shortcuts to cope up with all the challenges before them.
My cousin absconded from home 10 years back on the eve of his Final year
Bcom results. We don't know whether he is alive or dead still. He was not
good at studies that his father, a senior bank official, found embarrased to
introduce his son to other colleagues. These kind of implicit demands
stressed my cousin and we lost him.
Four years back one of my raakhi sisters got engaged to her boyfriend. The
boy left to US for his MS while the girl was in Bangalore only. Slowly, he
moved away from her that finally the relationship broke. This girl
determined to do MS as a challenge to this boy and she completed her MS. But
the boy didn't bother at all. Finally she got married to some other guy. But
this didn't change her failure mode. What good reason she found to do MS
?!!!
NLP practitioners owe a lot to the society; And counselling in school is one
potential area.
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