Every Child is Unique

Of course every person knows all of us are unique, why do we need to talk about this? We do need to talk about this because of the following reasons. When I say we here its 'Parents' and most of these discussions might revolve around Indian Psyche or perhaps South Indian Psyche in more specific cases.

• We do ignore this fact conviniently in this compititive world. 
• Though we acknowledge this at our level (parental level) and try to reason for our 'failure' we tend to compare our kids against his peers. Some times we become brash and go beyond reason making either fun or other wise.
• We might sympathize with the kid but would never or almost never empathize with them.
• We tend to chase success ignoring excellence. (Excellence will always bring success where as the otherway might not be true).
• We almost always take children as one of the pride possessions rather than individuals having their own ego states and tastes.

Every child is unique for the following facts:

• Genetics: Even fraternal twins are not identical even the identical twins will have their finger prints and eye retina will be different.
• Economical: Unless otherwise twins we are born with different levels of comfort levels of our parents
• Social and Cultural: Eg. kids born to Bengali parents with a 5-6 yr gap one in Hyderabad and the other one in Chennai
• Psychological: It varies with genetics as well as other factors influence and the physiological age also will have great impact (for e.g. during Teens because of the hormonal changes we all will have weird behavior) apart from above factors.
• Perceptional: This is the most important difference which can't be perceived... :).. What I mean here is every body will have his own individual unique window to the world... He can see "only" through this window.. Unless understood in his own perspective we can never understand his world which is the most important thing and is the piller of imparting.

My daughter Srikari, keeps on reminding me whenever I err with my perception and look to apply the same yardstick for both my kids saying that "You only said no 2 persons are same yet you compare me with Bojo". And I do apologize her with my heart and try to rectify myself. But all the ecological systems we built around us force us to forget this often.. :(

The whole purpose of understanding the uniqueness is for differential education for students who are gifted,
demonstrate high performance capability, and are in need of enrichment is a practice that relates directly to the education of the whole child by focusing on individualized instruction to cater to the specific developmental needs of each student. That means that we must create an atmosphere in which teachers are not compelled to “teach to the middle” in order to meet parental pressures and academic institutional pressures. Instead, teachers must be encouraged to teach to the abilities of each individual child, taking into account his or her specific needs and talents.

I strongly believe that "Alone this measure could, bring the Equality of Opportunity" which is enshrined in the constitution. I believe every child has unique gifts and talents that must be developed, but not necessarily in accordance with prescribed programs and rubrics. Enthusiasm for helping each child realize his or her unique
gifts goes a long way toward inspiring students to have confidence in their own abilities should be the objective of our educational system. Helping all students reach their highest potential is the best investment we can make toward ensuring a thriving economy and learning society in our country’s future.