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  Power Tool Pause   When I was a child, I remember driving through rice fields where many times I saw these shooting small plants in steady water, and I use to wonder how much patience farmers have to keep for the whole process of growth to finish. Today when I look back, I can connect to the idea that the universal law of pause is one of the bases of life.  It is in these moments of pause that we become conscious of the beauty unraveling for us in each experience. But unfortunately, in our today’s world we are constantly looking for one thing or another. So much so that even for our children we constantly look out for things to keep them constantly busy. We try to keep them occupied with toys, activities or screens, constantly. As a result we build a brain that does not know how to pause itself. If a child says he/she is getting bored we start thinking of next thing we can bring for them to keep them busy. There is no doubt that our brain builds its software based on the envi

I can vividly recall the first time I left my three-year-old alone in his preschool. It felt like my heart sank inside me. A thousand questions raced through my mind: What if he needs something? Who will feed him? What if another child hurts him? Today, he's a 17-year-old young man who tells me, "Take a break, you need rest. I'll take care of things." It's amazing how parents grow alongside their children. When our children start going to preschool alone, they're confronted with new people, environments, and routines. For parents, it's one of the most anxiety-inducing experiences. Having been in the preschool environment for almost two decades now, I've seen that children take a day or two to realize they're safe and can have fun in this new environment. However, it takes much longer for us as adults to trust and have faith in the caregivers. Every moment in these environments teaches children something or lays the foundation for their future life.