Forum of the Month - June 2009 - Schoolgoers & Teens

Dear IL'ites,

Forum for June 2009 is :

Schoolgoers & Teens

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings

The Quote simply summarizes the best way a parent need to handle a teenager child.
Teenagers are sensitive lot of children and demands a lot of attention, patience and understanding in handling them. Once you mastered and set the wavelength with your teen age child then they are like your best friend at home. We, parents become their soul mate lending ears to their rantings.
With such a dynamic forum at hand is there a dearth of topics to be discussed. Well no, go ahead and make the forum lively with the most useful discussions about school goers and teen agers.

Ladies ensure that the thread is lively calling for active participation from other ILites.

Are you new to the IL community? Want to know more about this contest?

Read here to know rules and guidelines for the "Popular Thread Contest" in the Forum of the month.

Some do's and don'ts to be followed for this contest:
DOs:

1. Make your contributions for this contest ONLY in the Schoolgoers & Teens - IndusLadies forum (NOT in this thread or forum).
2. ONLY new threads started this month - June 2009 that get popular with max responses and participation from other members will be considered.
3. Avoid thread on generic discussions like "Challenges", "managing" etc. Those threads on generic discussions will not be considered
4. ONLY specific discussions qualify for the contest like 'Challenges of sending my seven year old kid to school on the reopening day", 'How to manage the tantrums of teenage girls?' 'What is the most interesting after school activity of your kid?' etc.
5. The threads should be started about parenting challenges/ tips of so that it will call for participation from co-members to share thoughts about the same.

DON'Ts:

1. No posting (copy-pasting) articles or information from other sources (like websites, books, magazines, emails etc.).

Get started with a popular thread...Good Luck!

Dear ILites,

The winner for the Popular thread in the forum
Schoolgoers & Teens - IndusLadies is:

Shanvy

who started the thread :

Living your dreams through your child???

which captured the mania of all the parents who want to guide their children into conventional careers like Engineering, Doctor.

and it has 80 replies with more than 1000 views. Thanks Shanvy for starting a thread that captures all the parent's dilemma. More so you made the thread alive and interesting by involving other ILites and encouraging them to participate

Ladies, join in congratulating Shanvy who has won this contest and making the Schoolgoers & Teens forum a lively hub of participation.

Shanvy, here is the special gift for winning the contest. It is a metal embossing of Sun God. Hope it finds a place of pride in your Living Area.

Congratulations...Shanvy!

That was a very thoughtful post on behalf of the kids asking the Parents to give it a thought. While all parents want their kids to shine, it is also important that we don't make it a burden on them. Let them come out shining high in their true colors as per their own dreams.

I liked especially the way you wrote getting so many parents to join you in the discussions thinking along with you. That's what made your discussion successfully popular I guess!!

Malathy

dear shanvy ,

CONGRATULATIONS !
you just deserve this.

Shanthi dear...
Congratulations... It was really a great topic which was under discussion...

Dear Shanthi,

Congratulations on winning the June Forum of the month!!!! ......It was indeed a good topic.....

Congrats SHANTHI.
Very well narrated crushed dreams of kids.
Keep going .

Congratulations for winning !!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Induslady

Congratulations...Shanvy!
I liked especially the way you wrote getting so many parents to join you in the discussions thinking along with you. That's what made your discussion successfully popular I guess!!
Malathy

Thank you malathy. being a mother of a teenager and a ten year old, it was really interesting to talk to mom's with same views...

Originally Posted by Laxmi

Dear ILites,
The winner for the Popular thread in the forum
Schoolgoers & Teens - IndusLadies is:

Shanvy

Shanvy, here is the special gift for winning the contest. It is a metal embossing of Sun God. Hope it finds a place of pride in your Living Area.

Thank you laxmi. and the gift looks great....

Originally Posted by sadhu72

dear shanvy ,

CONGRATULATIONS !
you just deserve this.

Sadhu dear,

Thanks. but you all made it possible with your contributions.

Originally Posted by shvap_786

Shanthi dear...
Congratulations... It was really a great topic which was under discussion...

Vahee, thanks..but do participate, instead of just being there in the discussion...

Originally Posted by rajiravi

Dear Shanthi,

Congratulations on winning the June Forum of the month!!!! ......It was indeed a good topic.....

Raji, thanks for your wishes and also your participation.

Originally Posted by yashikushi

Congrats SHANTHI.
Very well narrated crushed dreams of kids.
Keep going .

Saroj, thanks for your wishes...yes many perspectives definitely to help many parents.

Originally Posted by Deepali_deepali

Congratulations for winning !!!!!!!

Thanks deepali.