A Productive Day at My Children's School

I attended the P.T.A. meeting today at my kids' school, and it was very educational. Aside from the happenings around the school with the pupils that need to be addressed, the school always makes provisions for educational sessions with the parents during the parent-teacher meetings, and today's learning was about the use of AI among students, discipline, and general knowledge about parenting and sharing experiences.

No doubt, the kids of today no longer want to stress their brains but always demand an AI assistant through their parents' phones for a quick answer. According to the teachings, while AI is a great tool that could aid in learning, it was advised that our little children shouldn't be allowed to rely solely on AI.

Teachers were also instructed to focus more on giving students assignments based on what they have thought and what they can also research through their textbooks. This way, they will be training their brain to be creative and think critically rather than depending on AI to do the whole thinking for them.

It was exposed that some of the students can't write formal essays anymore due to high dependence on AI, and it's wrong. Parents were advised to monitor these kids closely and see that they explore learning and build their brains to always think of solutions to problems rather than allowing AI to do the whole work.

Obviously, we must be intentional to achieve this in this era; otherwise, I am afraid of what their brain will become at the end of their schooling.

In the area of discipline, it was said that parents always come to the school for a fight over their kids, and while I don't know what exactly transpired, good discipline is always a good way to correct a child if you love him or her as long as it's not an extreme kind of discipline in the school .

Now in my house, once you use a bad word, I don't flog the kids anymore, but the offender will read different chapters of the Bible and explain what he understands in them. This way, they are also learning God's instructions through the Scripture, and by God's grace, it's working for my kids so far in shaping their behaviour . They are becoming a bit conscious of what they should do and what they should not do, but sometimes they still behave like the kids they are.

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