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How Do I Start Unschooling or Homeschooling?

Ratnesh Mathur — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:21:52 +0000

How Do I Start Unschooling or Homeschooling? A lot of inquiries that come to Aarohi nowadays ask, “How do I start unschooling or homeschooling?” Invariably, my reply to all of them is: BY STARTING IT. Package Tours vs. Self-Charted Journeys You see, conventional education—schooling and college—is very much like a package tour. If you are […]

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How Do We Ensure Commitment Without Exams?

Ratnesh Mathur — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:21:58 +0000

When families choose unschooling or homeschooling as the educational path for their child, one question comes up very frequently: How will I ensure my child’s commitment to learning without exams—or rather, without any external exams? Let me put it this way: how about we consider that the child is learning simply because the child wants […]

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The Biggest Issue in Today’s Education System? It’s Us.

Ratnesh Mathur — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:56:43 +0000

A parent asked me, “What is the biggest issue you see in today’s education system?” My answer is that there is only one issue in today’s education system—and that is us, the parents. Hi, I’m Ratnesh from Aarohi Life Education. In this episode, I want to re-look at our responsibility towards our child’s education. System […]

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How to Find Child’s Interests, Passions and Talents

Ratnesh Mathur — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:35:36 +0000

How Do You Find Your Child’s Real Passion? (Spoiler: You Don’t) A lot of parents ask me, “How do I find my child’s real interest, real passion, real talent?” My answer to them is very simple: We don’t. Hi, I’m Ratnesh from Aarohi Life Education. After working with thousands of children, we have realized at […]

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Friday Special – An exposure of begging and abundance

Kirtika Aarohi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:40:31 +0000

The moment, Friday special was announced, one heard murmurs of ‘begging for plants’, ‘why are we going for begging’, ‘what is this… feeling weird to be begging’ The term ‘begging’ kept echoing until this Friday. We started the briefing by looking at this word ‘begging’. What images come to our mind? Some stretched their arms […]

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The Great Raft Challenge: How One Simple Activity Sparks a Learning Riot

Kirtika Aarohi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:09:57 +0000

It all started with a deceptively simple question: “Can we make a raft that actually floats?” One question that transformed the entire campus into a construction site-meets-trading floor. There have been intense negotiations over plastic bottles, fierce debates about twine lengths, a few tears, a lot of trading, and an absolute riot of energy. As […]

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Why You’re Not Lacking Strengths: The Truth About Habits of Mind

kanupriya singh — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:02:02 +0000

Habits of mind are all there in all of us at all times. They are like a service... which I whenever I call for I can use that service. They are not higher or lower. They're not stronger or not stronger... it’s more of a choice. Am I using that service or not?

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Three Ways to Effortlessly Develop Reading and Writing in Children

Ratnesh Mathur — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:27:52 +0000

This article, while relevant to all audience, is specially important for families doing child based education or home schooling or Unschooling. Before we get into the exact three ways, there is a fundamental shift we need to make: we need to realize that reading and writing are not subjects. They are functional skills, and all […]

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How do you solve the jigsaw puzzle called CHILD

Ratnesh Mathur — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:16:26 +0000

Some parents ask me, don’t we all do child-based parenting? Aren’t we all the time child-based? So my response to the parents are, maybe not. Maybe we are not child-based. Maybe most of us are expectations-based. We operate from our own beliefs, our own anxieties, our own expectations from the child, from the future. We […]

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Child-Based vs. Expectation-Based Parenting

Ratnesh Mathur — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:54:20 +0000

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