Parenting for boys can be both rewarding and challenging. Here are some tips for raising boys:

1. Provide a positive male role model: It's important for boys to have positive male role models in their lives. This can be a father, uncle, grandfather, or another male figure who can guide them and show them how to be good men.

2. Teach them to communicate: Boys must learn how to express their feelings and communicate effectively. Encourage them to talk about their emotions, and validate their feelings.

3. Encourage physical activity: Boys are often full of energy and need an outlet for their physical activity. Encourage them to participate in sports or other physical activities, which can also help them develop teamwork and social skills.

4. Teach them to be respectful: Boys need to learn how to treat others with respect, regardless of gender, race, or religion. Model respectful behaviour yourself, and teach them to listen to others and be kind.

5. Encourage independence: Boys need to learn how to be independent and self-sufficient. Encourage them to take on responsibilities and make decisions independently, while providing guidance and support.

6. Teach them to be responsible.

How to improve communication skills?💁

Improving communication skills is a continuous process that requires consistent effort and practice. Here are some tips that can help you improve your communication skills:

·         Listen actively: Pay attention to what others are saying, ask questions to clarify, and provide feedback to show that you understand.

·         Be clear and concise: Use simple and straightforward language, avoid jargon or technical terms that others may not understand, and organize your thoughts before you speak.

·         Practice empathy: Try to see things from the other person's perspective and show that you care about their feelings and opinions.

·         Use body language: Use appropriate facial expressions, eye contact, and gestures to enhance your message and show that you are engaged in the conversation.

·         Practice active speaking: Use assertive language and tone of voice, use "I" statements instead of "you" statements, and avoid interrupting others.

·         Read and write regularly: Reading and writing can help improve vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure, which can all contribute to better communication skills.

·         Seek feedback: Ask for feedback from others about your communication skills and work on improving areas where you may be weaker.

·         Attend communication courses: You can attend communication courses or workshops to learn more about effective communication techniques and gain practical experience through role-playing and feedback.

 

Remember, improving your communication skills takes time and effort. However, with practice and consistency, you can become a more effective communicator and improve your personal and professional relationships.                                                                     

What is the importance of communication?

Communication is essential in almost all aspects of life, and its importance cannot be overstated. Here are some reasons why communication is so important:

Building relationships: Communication helps build and maintain relationships. It enables us to connect with others, share ideas, and express our feelings.

Sharing information: Communication is the primary means by which we exchange information. We can inform, educate, and persuade others through communication.

Resolving conflicts: When there is a disagreement or conflict, communication is the key to resolving it. Effective communication can help to clear misunderstandings and find solutions.

Making decisions: Communication is essential in decision-making processes. We need to communicate with others to gather information, evaluate options, and come to a consensus.

Achieving goals: Effective communication is vital to achieving personal and organizational goals. When people communicate clearly and efficiently, they can work together more effectively and achieve their objectives.

Enhancing creativity and innovation: Communication fosters creativity and innovation by encouraging the sharing of ideas, brainstorming, and collaboration.

 

In summary, communication is an essential life skill that plays a critical role in building relationships, sharing information, resolving conflicts, making decisions, achieving goals, and promoting creativity and innovation.                                                                

 

How to choose the best career …👍

Choosing a career can be a challenging task, and it requires thoughtful consideration and self-reflection. Here are some steps you can take to help you choose your career:

 
👉Assess your interests and strengths: Start by identifying your passions, hobbies, and interests. Consider what subjects you enjoy learning about and what activities you enjoy doing. You can take personality and career assessments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or Strong Interest Inventory, to help you identify your strengths and preferences.
 
👉Research careers: Once you have identified your interests and strengths, research careers that align with them. Look at job descriptions, educational requirements, salary expectations, and employment outlook. Consider talking to professionals in the fields you are interested in and asking them about their experiences.
 
👉Consider your values: Think about what is important to you in a career. Do you value job security, work-life balance, creativity, or helping others? Make sure the careers you are considering align with your values.
 
👉Try it out: Consider job shadowing or interning in a field that interests you. This will give you hands-on experience and help you determine if the career is a good fit for you.
 
👉Set goals: Once you have identified a career path, set specific goals and create a plan to achieve them. This may include earning a degree, gaining experience, or networking.
 
Remember that choosing a career is a process, and it is okay to change your mind as you gain more experience and learn about yourself. It is important to find a career that is fulfilling and aligns with your values and interests.
 

Easy to learn DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS

 

 DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS

Pronouns that simultaneously indicate the nouns are called distributive pronouns. These pronouns are in the singular form and they always come after the verbs.

1. EACH

"Each" is used to indicate every one of the two or more people or things that are distinct. "Each" goes before a singular noun and is followed by a singular verb.

Examples:

Each sentence is divided into two parts. 

(Singular noun = "sentence", singular verb = "is")

• Each worker has been provided with his own instrument. 
• Each boy was in the pool

"Each" used after a plural subject assumes a plural verb.

Examples:

• They each have their own costumes. 

    ("They plural subject, "their" - plural verb)

• They each have a pair of their own skis,

    In case of numerals, "each" is used after the numeral.

Examples:

• The correct answers are worth two points each . 
• The books are worth fifty rupees each.

"Each of" assumes a plural noun/pronoun and a singular verb.

Examples:

Each of the three people was blind and deaf. 

("people" = plural noun, "was" singular verb)

Each of the trees was marked. 

Each of the houses was demolished.

Parenting: The teen agers

 

Parenting: The teen agers

Teenagers, dealing with hormone changes and issues of identity, fornication, and alcohol, may feel that no one can understand their passions, especially parents.

 

The youngster times pose some of the most delicate challenges for families. Teenagers, dealing with hormone changes and an ever-complex world, may feel that no one can understand their passions, especially parents. As a result, the teen may feel angry, alone and confused while facing complicated issues about identity, peers, sexual behaviours, drinking and medicines.
Parents may be frustrated and angry that the teen seems to no longer respond to maternal authority. Styles of discipline that worked well in earlier times may no longer have an effect. And, parents may feel alarmed and helpless about the choices their teen is making.
As a result, the teen times are ripe for producing conflict in the family.

Typical areas of parent-teen conflict

      Controversies over the teen’s curfew,
      The teen’s choice of musketeers
      Spending time with the family versus with peers
      School and work performance
      Buses and driving boons
      Dating and fornication
      Clothing, hair styles, and make up
      Tone destructive behaviour similar as smoking, drinking, and using medicines

Dealing with the issues of nonage can be trying for all concerned. But families are generally successful at helping their children negotiate the experimental pretensions of the teen times — reducing dependence on parents, while getting decreasingly responsible and independent.
 Still, there are a number of advising signs that effects aren't going well and that the family may want to seek outside help. These include aggressive behaviour or violence by the teen, medicine or alcohol abuse, promiscuity, academy truancy, skirmishes with the law, or raw behaviour. Likewise, if a parent is resorting to hitting or other violent behaviour in an attempt to maintain discipline, this is a strong peril sign.

HOW TO REMEMBER : RELATIVE PRONOUNS ( WHOEVER/WHATEVER/WHICHEVER/ AS/BUT)

 

 WHOEVER/WHATEVER/WHICHEVER

These pronouns are known as compound relative pronouns and they do not have an antecedent.

Examples:

• Whoever wishes to come with me is welcome.
• Whatever be the reason, your sin cannot be forgiven.
• Whichever way you consider the offer, it will prove beneficial.

6. AS, BUT

These words function as relative pronouns. "As" is used after "such" and "same" and "but" is used in a negative sentence.

Examples:

• Opportunities such as this do not come again. . 
• He thinks the same as I do about orphans.
• This is nothing but a satire on the political leaders.

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HOW TO REMEMBER : RELATIVE PRONOUNS ((Interrogative Pronouns)

C. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS

When a pronoun is used to ask a question, it is an interrogative pronoun. An interrogative pronoun has no antecedent as the antecedent is not known. What, who, which, whom, whose are interrogative pronouns.

Examples:

• What is your name? 
• Who is the winner?
• Who won?
• Which man will take the seat?
• Which girl will answer this question?
• Whom did you give the book to?
• Whom did he go with?
• Whose pen is this? 
• Whose child is that?

Interrogative pronouns can also assume suffixes like-ever and -so ever. Whatever, Whatsoever, Whoever, Whomsoever, Whichever.

D. DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS

Pronouns that simultaneously indicate the nouns are called distributive pronouns. These pronouns are in the singular form and they always come after the verbs.

1. EACH

"Each" is used to indicate every one of the two or more people or things that are distinct "Each" goes before a singular noun and is followed by a singular verb.

Examples: 

• Each sentence is divided into two parts.

(Singular noun = "Sentence", singular verb= "is"

• Each worker has been provided with his own instrument.
• Each boy was in the pool.

"Each" used after a plural subject assumes a plural verb.

Examples: They each have their own costumes

(They plural subject their plural verb)

They each have a pair of their own skis In case of numerals "each is used after the numeral

Examples:

The correct answers are worth two points each

The books are worth fifty rupees each

"Each of assumes a plural noun/pronoun and a singular verb.

Examples:

Each of the three people was blind and deaf.

people" plural noun, "was" singular verb)

Each of the trees was marked. 

Each of the houses was demolished.

2. EITHER AND NEITHER

A singular verb is used after "either" and "neither".

Examples:

Either plot is available.

(ls" = singular verb)

Neither student was qualified for the test.

"Neither of and "Either of" precede a pronoun/noun, but assume a singular verb.

Examples:

Either of the bags was empty. 

Neither of the glasses was full.

Neither of the schools was qualified for the award.

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HOW TO REMEMBER : RELATIVE PRONOUNS ( use of WHO/WHOM/WHOSE )

 3.WHO/WHOM/WHOSE

These pronouns are used in accordance with the case. "Who" is used as the subject of the verb and "whom" is used as the object of the verb/preposition.

Examples:

• This is the man who stole my purse. (Nominative) 
• This is the man whom I longed to meet. (Objective).
• This is the man whose life was shattered after the earthquake. (Possessive)

4. WHAT "What" is used instead of "that which". "What" does not assume a possessive case.

Examples:

•  What happened at the hospital is known only to me. (Nominative)
• Why don't you practice what you preach? (Objective)

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HOW TO REMEMBER : RELATIVE PRONOUNS ( use of which )

 

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

2. WHICH

"Which" is applied to animals, inanimate objects, and at times to sentences.

Examples:

• This is the typewriter which I used, (which" in the nominative case.)
• The leopard which is in the cage will be rescued. ("which" in the objective case.)

"Who" and "which" are used in two instances.

i. To emphasise the antecedent when the clause brought in by the relative pronoun is defining (or) to limit the antecedent when the clause brought in by the relative pronouns is restrictive.

Examples:

• The man, who was painting a picture, turned around.
• The man who was painting a picture turned around.

In example 1, the clause "who was painting a picture" defines the "man" from among many others. In example 2, he is the only man who is being spoken about.

ii. To provide more information about the antecedent when the clause brought in by the relative pronoun is continuative.

Examples:

• I found the lady, who was spotted on the beach.
• I saw the crown, which was owned by the prince.

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HOW TO REMEMBER : RELATIVE PRONOUNS

 

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

When a pronoun is used to join one phrase/clause to another phrase/cause, it is called relative pronoun, Who, whom, that, which, are relative pronouns.

Examples:

• He invented a car, which runs on gas.
• He bought the house, which was on sale.

Relative pronouns are so called because they refer to the nouns that immediately precede them. The nouns that precede them are called antecedents. 

Relative pronouns relate to the antecedents and at the same time link them with the remainder of the sentence. Thus, they also function as conjunctions.

1. THAT

"That" is applied to animals, people and inanimate objects.

Examples:

• Ones that are fresh will be used for the decoration.

 ("That" in the nominative case)

• The candidate that is selected will attend the next interview. ("That" in the nominative case).

• You can take the papers that have been already used. 

("That" in the objective case)

"That" is used:

i. To indicate people, objects or defining clauses

Example:

•  He is the man that the police are looking for.

ii. To replace adverbial clauses like "on which", "at which", "for which" and "in which

Examples:

•  I remember the day that I met you. (the day "on which")
• This is the chest that cost me a thousand rupees. ("for which I paid)
•  I remember the college that the function took place at. ("at which the function took place) . I have seen the film that you acted in. ("in which you acted)

iii. To replace "which"/"who"

a. "That" is used after adjectives in the superlative degree.

Example:

•  He is the most wonderful person that I've ever met.

b. "That" is used after "all", "only", "same", "nothing", "any".

Examples:

• There is nothing that can be done about the design. • Are these the only colours that are available?
• Can you show me any designs that are ready?
• All that you can do is forget the accident.

c. That is used after two nouns or antecedents when the first indicates a person and the second indicates an object or an animal.

Example:

• The master and his loins that won the prize were also the national context.

d. "That" is used after "what" and "who" 

Examples:

• What is it that he was looking for?
• What is the reason that he looks so dull?
• Who are the people that will meet me at the function?

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HOW TO REMENBER PERSONAL PRONOUN

I. The personal pronoun that takes the place of a noun must conform to the person, number and gender of the noun it replaces.

Example:-

1. Ramesh is feeling sick. He will not attend his class tomorrow.

2. The doors are locked. They will not open now. 

3. The people in the forest were hungry. They had not eaten anything all morning.

4. The weather was pleasant. It made Ramesh feel good.

II.Two or more nouns or pronouns connected with "and"

-When two nouns (joined by "and") refer to two separate people or ideas:

-the plural "they" is used after the latter noun.

-the definite article "the" is used before each noun.

Example:

1 The farmer and the soldier were sitting in a tavern. They looked unhappy. 

2 The girl and the woman stood at the door. They refused to come in.

3. Revi and Sam were playing with their toys. They were very happy.

III. When a pronoun is used to refer to two distinct people (nouns or pronouns), assumes the first or the second person plural and not the third.

Example:

1. He and you have been assigned your duties. 

2. He and I are rehearsing our dialogues.

3. She and you can proceed with your discussion. 

IV. When two or more nouns or pronouns are connected with pronoun is used.

Example :

1. Either Neel or Nilesh has to lend his bag 

2. Neither Neel nor Nilesh has to lend his bag.

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Learn the types of pronouns ( Part-2)

 

Example 2:

1.I feel sick.

2.We are good friends.

Example 3 :

1. Varun slapped me. 

2. Neena talked to me.

3. Sam talked to us.

4. Nitin was playing with us.

Example 4 : 

1. You have to follow my orders

2. This is my book

3. The fault was mine.

4. The purse is mine. 

5. These are our orders.

6. The wicked man usurped our wealth. 

7. This kingdom is ours.

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Learn the types of pronouns ( Part-1)

 

PRONOUN

In this chapter, you will:

• Ø  Define a pronoun
• Ø Learn the types of pronouns

 DEFINITION:

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.

Example 1:

1. This is Sita. She is five years old.

The pronoun "she" in the second sentence refers to "Sita" (Noun). "She replaces "Sita" in the next sentence.

The people were in the park. They were talking.

"They" refers to the "people" (Noun).

 

TYPES OF PRONOUNS:

•  Personal
•  Relative
•  Interrogative
•  Demonstrative
•  Distributive
•  Indefinite
•  Reciprocal
•  Reflexive
•  Emphatic
•  Possessive

 

A. PERSONAL PRONOUN:

1.Personal pronouns take the place of nouns. They can be classified into groups:

• First person pronouns 
• Second person pronouns
• Third person pronouns

     

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NOUN CASE - Part - 7 (II) Possessive Case

 

6. The possessive case is implied in a different way in case of inanimate objects.

Examples:

• The roof of the house needs repair. 
• The leg of the table is broken.
• A part of the wall collapsed.

In the above examples, house's roof, table's leg or wall's part would be wrong expressions.

7. When nouns in possessive case are in apposition, 's is added only at the end of the last

noun.

Examples:

• The national leader. Mahatma Gandhi's policy of non violence has been forgotten. 
• The Finance Minister. Mr. Chidambaram's view on the recession was broadcast on television.

The possessive indicates a sense of ownership. It should not be confused with instances where the 's does not imply possession.

Examples:

The devastation of the town by the deluge was not reported in the press.

The town's devastation during heavy rains would be a wrong expression. Town does not

become a possessive case here. Town is not in possession of the devastation.

• The escape of the prisoners shocked the jailer.

D. DATIVE

The dative case is placed immediately next to the verb and ahead of the direct object or the accusative case.

Examples:

• Sam gave Tom a bottle.
• Tom presented Sam some books.
• The Chief Guest awarded the cricketers with a trophy.

E. VOCATIVE

Nouns that are spoken or addressed to are in the vocative case.

Examples:

• Girls, stand in one corner.
• Get me some water Sam!
• How are you, Mr. Joy?

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PERSONAL PRONOUN ( EXCEPTION)

Exception:

When a singular noun and a plural noun are joined by "or/nor", a plural pronoun is used

👉Neither the teacher nor the students were present for the sessions.

I. "It is used:

• To indicate inanimate objects like stone, television, paper, etc.

👉Where is the book? It is on the table.

• To indicate infants, kids and animals if gender is not specified.

👉Where is the baby? It is in the cradle. 

• To indicate the preceding statement.

👉The door is open now. It was closed in the afternoon. 

• To indicate a provisional subject that precedes the verb "to be" even as the actual subject follows.

👉It is impossible to judge the situation. 

("It is the provisional subject and "situation" is the actual subject.)

👉It is a lovely car.

• To indicate a noun/pronoun that comes after.

👉 It is not I who is mistaken.

      It was a tavern where the king was found.

How to Learn Rules of Pronouns ( Third Person)

 

Example 8:

1. He was staring at Veena.

2. She was studying Vinit very carefully.

3. It was licking the plate.

4. It is a ridiculous idea.

5. They were staring at Veena.

6. They felt offended by the remark.

Example 9:

1. Sita called him inside.

2. Ramesh slapped her.

3. The people killed it.

4. The villagers saw it running away.

5. The villagers saw them running away. 

6. Sam heard them howling in the forest.

Example 10:

1. This is his house..

2. This is her bag.

3. The forest is their home

4. Their elephants were tied to the tree.

5. The palace is his.

6. The garden is hers.

7. Its paw was injured.

8. Its body is striped.

9. The final word on the matter was theirs.

10.Swimming is a favourite hobby of theirs.

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