Learning Through Reflection- PYDS Learning Academy

Students learn best when they pause to introspect, reflect on their experiences, understand their mistakes, and connect learning with real-life situations. Reflection helps students become thoughtful, independent, and responsible learners.

My Good School Reflection by Manisha Khanna

गलतियाँ करना और कमियों को स्वीकारना

My Good School, April 20, 2025, part 2.

जुगजीव सर और मनीषा मैम आपको किताबें पढ़कर और पढ़ने के मूल्यों और अन्य पहलुओं के बारे में बातचीत करके रोमांचित करेंगे जो आपको दुनिया का सामना करने के लिए तैयार करने में मदद करेंगे। कोई भी पीछे नहीं रहेगा क्योंकि वे अंग्रेजी और हिंदी में समझाएंगे; कृपया अपने गुरुओं से बेझिझक बात करें और अपनी भाषा में सवाल पूछेंI

Mistakes help us grow, acceptance helps us glow!

✨ सारांश (Summary):

हर इंसान गलती करता है – यही जीवन का एक स्वाभाविक हिस्सा है। लेकिन जो व्यक्ति अपनी गलतियों को पहचानता है और उन्हें सुधारने का साहस रखता है, वही सच्चे अर्थों में आगे बढ़ता है। कमियों को छिपाने की बजाय जब हम उन्हें स्वीकार करते हैं, तो हम खुद को बेहतर बनाने की दिशा में पहला कदम उठाते हैं। यह स्वीकार्यता ही हमें आत्मनिरीक्षण, आत्मसंयम और आत्मविकास की ओर ले जाती है।

📝 चिंतन प्रश्न:

1️⃣ हर गलती हमें कुछ नया सिखाने का मौका देती है। जब हम सोचते हैं कि हमने उस स्थिति से क्या सीखा, तो हम अपनी सोच और व्यवहार में बदलाव लाते हैं।

प्रश्न: आपने अब तक कौन-सी गलती से सबसे ज़्यादा सीखा है?

2️⃣ स्वीकार्यता आत्म-समझदारी की निशानी है। जब हम अपनी कमजोरियों को पहचानते हैं, तभी हम उन्हें सुधार सकते हैं।

प्रश्न: क्या आप अपनी कमियों को आसानी से स्वीकार कर पाते हैं? क्यों या क्यों नहीं?

3️⃣ कभी-कभी आलोचना को स्वीकार करना मुश्किल होता है, लेकिन वही प्रतिक्रिया तय करती है कि हम कितने खुले और सीखने को तैयार हैं।

प्रश्न: जब कोई आपकी गलती पर ध्यान दिलाता है, तो आपकी प्रतिक्रिया कैसी होती है?

4️⃣ गलती के बाद हमारा अगला कदम सबसे महत्वपूर्ण होता है। सुधार की दिशा में उठाया गया हर प्रयास हमें आत्मनिर्भर बनाता है।

प्रश्न: आप अपनी गलतियों को सुधारने के लिए क्या कदम उठाते हैं?

5️⃣दूसरों की गलतियों को माफ़ करना हमें बड़ा बनाता है। क्षमा करने से हमारे रिश्ते मजबूत होते हैं और दिल हल्का होता है।

प्रश्न: क्या आपने कभी किसी को उसकी गलती के लिए क्षमा किया? कैसा महसूस हुआ?

6️⃣ आत्ममंथन हमें यह सोचने का मौका देता है कि हम और बेहतर कैसे बन सकते हैं – यह बदलाव की शुरुआत है।

प्रश्न: अगर आप कोई एक चीज़ अपने व्यवहार में सुधार सकते, तो वो क्या होती?

7️⃣ दूसरों की गलतियों को सहानुभूति से देखना हमें एक अच्छा श्रोता और दयालु इंसान बनाता है। इससे सहयोग और टीम भावना बढ़ती है।

प्रश्न: आप दूसरों की कमियों को किस तरह समझने की कोशिश करते हैं?

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Your presence, attention, and thoughtful participation truly made it a special occasion.

📩 We'd love to hear your reflections!
Please share your responses to the reflection questions at:
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Forgiveness - Tenzin Nyesel

A very famous line said:

"When you forgive, you heal.

When you let go, you grow."

 

When we suffer through harsh times in any relationship, it's hard to think about forgiving the other person. On that, it's harder to move on from that situation. That's the time when we start thinking about ourselves. The time when we think, "If I say 'this' to that person, what will my image be towards her or him? What does that person think about me?

 

As time goes on, slowly and gradually, we realize our actions and the words we said at that time. We start getting feelings of guilt, sorrow, and anger. We start reflecting on those mistakes and the ego we have been holding. That's the time when we let go of dirty stains from our clean, white life. We try to get things together.

This reflection concludes with a line:
"Forgiveness is not just to forget and move on; it's about remembering it without the anger."

Tenzin Nyesel

Pestalozzi Children's Village Society

 

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Forgiveness - Tenzin Jambey

In the journey of our lives, we come across many situations that result in the destruction of our peace of mind. Sometimes, we mistakenly hurt someone. It really feels bad when others don't accept your apology and when you are not forgiven for the mistake you made.

We humans are not perfect; we make mistakes as we take every step in our lives. Sometimes, our actions hurt the sentiments of others, which results in the birth of hate in others for us. When we ask for forgiveness from others, some accept it, but some people don't forgive the mistakes made by children. A few days ago, my football went on the roof of the neighbour's house. I went to get it and called out the uncle. He came outside, and I quickly greeted him and said sorry in a polite manner. Still, I ended up getting terribly scolded by him. If I look from one side, what he did was right, as I should have cared for him while playing, as it could have broken the things in his house, but if I were in his place, I would have given the child advice rather than scolding him. When we get scolding from others, it makes us feel a bit restricted, and from now on, we feel a bit scared and down to do things again, like playing. If we don't forgive the mistakes of the younger ones, they will never be able to enjoy their childhood, and they will feel that they have made the biggest mistake, which will affect their minds.

 

Forgiveness is essential, especially when it comes to children. Through this reflection, we are smart enough to know when to forgive and when not. Forgiveness depends on the situation and dimensions. We know which things should be ignored and which are to be punished. Even though forgiveness stands higher than punishment, humans still follow this practice as we don't have any options, and there are no such questions for forgiveness for the people who willingly indulge in activities like crimes, murders, and rape. Therefore, forgiveness is essential, depending on the situation and people's actions. We should know when and where to forgive and when not.

 

In the case of children, we must forgive as they will make thousands of mistakes, and they will not do what is right and wrong. They like a mountain lake that is pure and calm, but sometimes, they take the form of hurricanes and irritate others a lot. But this act of theirs makes us feel happy and reminds us of our old days in the future. Someday, forgiveness binds us together. Suppose the neighbour's uncle forgives the kid who broke his window twice or three times and still possesses a sense of forgiveness. In that case, it makes the uncle a hero in the eyes of the kid, and who knows, in the future, the kid will become a famous person and come to visit you with gifts and old-time memories.

 

The art of forgiveness works differently for different ages of people. The easiest, simplest, and most effective one is forgiving children. I still remember the uncle who returned my football whenever it went into his house. He never got angry, and he did forgive me when I broke his house's window. He used to give me advice, "Child, this is the right time to enjoy and create trouble for others, as in the future you will never get to experience it." His words really reflected upon me. As I take each step daily, I am expected to do well and make the fewest mistakes.

Tenzin Jambey

Pestallozi Children's Village Society

Image Courtesy- Dreamstime

Reflection topic – I am responsible for … Annaya Raj Gurung

 Reading with Jugjiv Sir

There are a lot of things I am responsible for like studying well, doing my homework on time, eating healthy, being nice and kind to the people around me. As the class monitor, I am responsible for minding the class when the teacher is not there, taking the copies down to the staffroom, bringing them back up and distributing the copies. My other responsibilities are to make my bed once I get up, wash my plate after I eat and help with the household chores. 

The most important responsibility I have is of myself, I am responsible for my thoughts and actions, I am responsible for the way I communicate and behave, I am responsible for my mistakes and to make sure I don’t repeat them and I am responsible for my well-being and happiness.

 

~Annaya Raj Gurung~

Grade IV 

Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok

I am responsible for - Aria Gupta

I take full responsibility for whatever mistake I have made in the past, even if it's just a spelling mistake. For me, they are not something to regret but to accept. We all make mistakes; there is no such thing as a 'perfect person'. The good thing about mistakes is that they can teach us essential values that nobody else will.

Our class was recently assigned a group project to do in Science. My group decided to make the task so fancy that we couldn't complete it in time, thus getting a big, fat zero. I learnt that we should make things easy and beautiful simultaneously. Even though this error will probably affect my grade, it doesn't matter as long as I learnt something.

It's beautiful if you make an error like this; everybody makes mistakes.

Aria Gupta
Grade VI
Gyanshree School

Flawsome and Fun - Our True Identity - Rishona Chopra

http://www.inyouth.in

Often we find faults in ourselves. In whatever we do, we consider ourselves to be the worst and keep finding spots in our own work; not only that, but we also start judging the work of others and keep finding flaws in it. It is never good to criticize ourselves or anyone, but knowing our mistakes and learning from them is good.

Instead of finding faults and criticizing ourselves, we should look at it with a positive attitude thinking that we shall not make this mistake again. We all make mistakes and learn from them. We must not have a delusion about ourselves. Therefore we are flawsome - have flaws but are yet so awesome!

Sometimes, we try to change ourselves for someone else, we tend to show off and change our look, personality and style just to make friends but that does nothing. It simply pressurizes us. Therefore we should have an open character and know we are flawsome yet fun.

On the other hand, criticizing the work of others is clearly wrong because we need empathy and fairness towards others. We must understand the feelings of others. If we spot any mistake in their work, we mustn't show it to them rudely. But politely point it out with the intention of looking out for them only if they ask for our opinion. We shouldn't misguide them. 

None of us is perfect with no mistakes, but our imperfections make us so perfect!

Rishona Chopra
Grade VII
Gyanshree School

Foolish mistake in my life - Nishan Karki

It is not possible that no one makes mistakes in their life. There are no exceptions. Mistakes made by people may be significant, small and foolish. I have also made several mistakes in my life. I remember some of my mistakes but some I do not. I have not actually made significant mistakes or worst mistakes. They were foolish and small.

The foolish mistake in my life was not coming home early from school. I used to be late coming back home because I used to spend time with my friends. One day I came very late to home because I went to my friend's house. My parents scolded me for making such a foolish mistake. I tried to get out of this mistake and never repeat it. I succeeded in my plan and was particular about coming home early.

- Nishan Karki
Pestalozzi Children's Village India

Humility - Nishan Karki

 

Nishan is a student at Pestalozzi Children's Village India
and a regular contributor to the Joy Of Learning Diaries. 

Honesty - Khushi Badgeri

Honesty, for me, means to be truthful, authentic and genuine to yourself and to others. It's like the foundation base of any relationship. 

Being honest makes us feel mature and responsible person. Let me share a minor incident. 

While playing with my friends in our living room, I accidentally broke a photo frame. I did not know what to do. Seeing the broken frame pieces on the floor, all my friends disappeared. I quietly cleaned all the mess and quietly went to my bed with tears in my eyes. That photo frame was my mom's favourite piece. I felt very guilty. When my mom returned home from the office in the evening, she noticed something was missing from the corner table. But she didn't say a word. After dinner, I quietly went to her and confessed to her what had happened and said sorry. She looked at me and gave me a tight hug, and said she appreciated me for being honest and taking responsibility for the mistake. I promised her that henceforth I would be more careful. 

Admitting my mistake and getting forgiveness gave me internal satisfaction and pride, to be honest with myself.

So, my friends, I realized that it takes a little courage to be honest, and admit to our mistakes, knowingly or unknowingly. 

There is a saying, "Honesty is the best policy." Just believe it.

Khushi Badgeri

Grade: 2A

Billabong High International School, Thane

Honesty - Rishona Chopra

Courage, Bravery, we all must have heard these terms, a question might come to our mind: What is the most significant act of courage? The answer could be: Climbing Everest? Being a soldier? Well, it is actually none of those...it is honesty. Let us see how with the help of a story:

Being Honest

Once there was a young girl named 'Mina'. She was taught to always be honest. To her, honesty seemed simple, just tell the truth. 

Once playing in school, she pushed her best friend 'Lily' so hard that it started to bleed. Mina didn't mean to do that at all. She went to her, and along with her other friends, they took her to the infirmary. 

Luckily it wasn't that serious, and the next day she was much better but wasn't able to play. 

Lily was furious at the person who pushed her. She was unaware that it was Mina who did that. She told Mina that she was angry at the person who had made her. That was so rude.

Mina, too, was hurt; she knew what she did hurt her friend. She just didn't dare to stand up and tell the truth. It was tough. That moment she realized how hard being honest could really be. 

Then she remembered telling her mother how simple being honest was, and now she didn't have the courage, to be honest. She thought that she might as well try telling the truth and told Lily the truth. 

Lily couldn't believe it! 'Did you actually do that?' she said, surprised. 'I didn't mean to at all. I am really sorry,' said Mina. 'You aren't mad at me?'. 

'Why would I be? You were honest. And I believe you. I am sure it was a mistake.' said Lily with a smile.

It was courageous of you to stand up.

Like Mina took the brave step of telling the truth, it did look difficult. Imagine you being in such a situation. Would you speak the truth? 

Rishona Chopra

Grade V

Gyanshree School

Appreciation - Rishona Chopra

Appreciation is to appreciate as in to be grateful and thankful for something. 
Most of us have so much to appreciate, but we still take time for finding mistakes and forget to embrace all the privileges we have and don't appreciate that. There shall always be greed for more, but it's on us to know how to control it, appreciate what we have, avoid finding what we don't have and stop this greed for more.

I know finding out mistakes is easier and catchy to talk about. I faced this problem myself! Although I have a lot to appreciate, I used to find what I didn't have. I have worked on that mistake and have stopped complaining and enjoying what I have. It's a little tricky but the moment you think about the things you have - a home, good clothes, education which most people might not even have you feeling happy and grateful for what you have. 

Rishona Chopra
Grade - V
Gyanshree School

Freedom - Khushi Badgeri

Freedom is the power to act according to our own will. Freedom is expressing things. Children need the freedom to explore, imagine, create, grow and develop their inquisitiveness to acquire knowledge.

Freedom for me is dancing and singing. I can dance and sing freely for hours together. I enjoy my freedom in dreaming tomorrow. I aim to be a Doctor, but at the same time, I would like to be a good classical dancer and a good singer.

For me freedom means expressing myself, freedom to chase my dreams, freedom to believe and trust in myself, freedom to be there for my family, my friends, and society. Freedom to make mistakes and to learn from the mistakes done. 

Freedom is responsibility!!

Freedom is motivation!!

Name: Khushi Badgeri
Grade: 2A
Billabong High International School, Thane

Making Mistakes and Accepting Flaws - Chahna Gandhi

It's unusual how 'mistakes' can turn you into something better than you were before.

Let's learn from the Great J.K Rowling, one of the best writers in the modern world. She is one of my favourites. Thanks to her that we have Harry Potter today. Rowling had published a series of classic novels. But not many are aware that before gaining fame, she was nearly penniless, depressed and trying to raise a child independently. While attending school and trying to make a decent earning, through her continuous determination and the fantastic idea of writing a book, she has become one of the richest women within a term of 5 years. 

You might have not understood what I mean and trying to convey.

Here's my point of view about the story : 

Joanne is an inspiring woman, and she inspired me to express my thoughts through writing as I am doing right now. Today she stimulated me that there's no wrong with making mistakes. Instead, she influenced me to see the positive of the errors, just like she did. She wrote and made mistakes but never gave off and got up even more robust with more creative ideas. 

BTS is one of the rising stars today. They have persuaded the youth into believing and loving themselves endlessly through their continuous efforts. They also did not become what they are today. They made mistakes and learned from them in a blink of an eye. Though they did think about giving up when they did not do as well as expected, they did not. We all get negative thoughts, but we have to push them away and need to focus on our aim. These thoughts can lead to mistakes, which will teach us a lesson and motivate us. 

Just remember, if you make mistakes, that means you're doing something out there. 

Chahna Gandhi

Grade 8

The Doon Girls School

Making Mistakes, Accepting Flaws - Arav Agarwal

Based on the chapter Making Mistakes, Accepting Flaws, from the book is your child ready to face the world by Dr Anupam Sibal.

We are humans, we tend to make mistakes, and we should accept the mistakes. We should reflect and learn from our mistakes and not repeat the same mistakes.

Let’s take the example of Thomas Edison. When he invented the light bulb, he failed 999 times! Then in an interview, he was asked how was it like to fail 999 times. He said, “I did not fail 999 times but only found 999 ways of how not to invent the light bulb.” Every time he made a mistake, he learned from it and improved. Imagine if he had given up and not learned from his mistakes, our life would be without light.

We should not expect everyone to be flawless in everything. There is a beautiful story in this book called the two pots. It teaches us that we should see goodness in our flaws. We should accept it, and mistakes are a part of our growth in our life.  

Name: Arav Agarwal
Grade: 5C
Billabong High International School, Thane

Courage - Ushita Saxena

                                                        “Courage is grace under pressure”.

All of us, no matter how young, have done something courageous. It would be

doing something for the sometimes or being calm under pressure. Here is my tale

of being courageous.

‘Once, I was going to the park with my sister. I was going inside the lift. And after

a few moments, the lights went out. The lift suddenly stopped, and it was going to

the basement. I was surprisingly calm and collected and knew what to do. My

sister, however, was panicking. As I tried to calm her down, the lift had arrived at

the basement. I pressed the “call” button, and one of the guards on the ground

floor told us to calm down. After 5 mins the lights came on. Finally, I went to

the park.’

See? It isn’t a challenging job. Courage isn’t having no fears but withstanding them

instead. You need it to begin. It gives you the ability to not be embarrassed or shy

and take the first steps to try something. It is one of the most essential values of life.

Ushita Saxena 

Grade V

Gyanshree School

Making Mistakes, Accepting Flaws- Aanya Kumar

 

In the reading session on 19/12/2021, I understood that we humans tend to make mistakes. We are often told that making mistakes is wrong. But mistakes aren’t crimes. It was new learning to me that Thomas Alva Edison failed 999 times while spreading light across the world or inventing the light bulb. A journalist asked him how it felt to fail a bundle of times when he was finally successful. He replied that he had not been failing all that time, but he learned 999 ways by which a light bulb could not be made. So, it is okay to make mistakes but not to repeat them. 

I have made many mistakes, but my parents have always encouraged me to learn from them. I know that I will continue to make mistakes, but that will give me the wisdom to be a better individual. As the saying goes, “Learn from your mistakes”.

Name- Aanya Kumar

Grade- V

School- Gyanshree School

Making Mistakes Accepting Flaws - Rishona Chopra

Based on the chapter making mistakes, Dr Anupam Sibal is Your Child Ready to face the world.

We all make mistakes, which is OK, but we must learn to accept our mistakes and learn from them. Here we might be pressured by people. People might say that making mistakes is wrong, but that is wrong. It’s OK to make mistakes, but it’s wrong to repeat the same mistakes.

Take the example of Thomas Elva Edison, a famous inventor- 

Thomas Elva Edison, while making the light bulb he failed 999 times!! He said that I have not failed 999 times but have learned 999 ways to not make the lightbulb.

Thomas Elva made several mistakes, but he learnt from his mistakes and accepted his flaws.

Rishona Chopra
Grade V

Gyanshree School

Holding on my Head - Meenakshi Choudhary

I am holding on to my head

Mountain of expectations

Walking on the path of my life

With boundaries of relations

My balloon of love was ruptured

By religion and culture

My life is pointless and boring

With nothing to nurture

The world is running

For the rain of the fame

For their own mistakes

They just want someone to blame

I just ignored them all

When I should have fought with them

But I wasn't knowing

They play this filthy game

Within no time

I was now left in shame

No one even bothered

To come and feel my pain

Now I am jobless

Waiting for a hopeful ring

What's left in me

Is just a confused being

This world to me

is like a roofless home in summers,

At nights I feel peaceful,

and whole day sun hammers

It has windows, walls doors

To divide me from others

Nothing we talk rather

Then just useless matters

With jealousy of others

my windows shatter

I don't have a lover,

so I don't care about the haters

I end my beer bottles

Till I burst my bladders

I sing all songs in blabbers

Coz for me, nothing matters.

Meenakshi Choudhary

Class - XII Science     

The Fabindia School