Media Release

Mangaluru, Oct 5: St Aloysius College, Harihar organized a PTA meeting for the students of I and II PUC on October 4.

The programme began with an inaugural function followed by parent-teacher interactions.

The speaker for the day was Mukund accompanied by Fr Eric Mathias SJ, Superior, Fr Pradeep Sequiera SJ, Finance Officer, Sunny Gudinho, principal PU College, Pushpalatha Urs, vice-principal and coordinators of the programme Ramyashree and Neelu.

The day began by invoking God's blessings, followed by a general session on how adolescent age works and the cautions and actions parents and teachers as well as students must make.

The speaker spoke on how childhood affects young age, how it influences ones personality, how exposure to a certain atmosphere triggers behaviour and how it shapes an individual in his or her own way. Parents must not scold their children always, but they need to be good friends with them at this age, so as to make the child feel wanted and accepted. The child’s flaws should not be taken as something that is too serious for anything major to be done, but it must be dealt with care and sympathy. Every responsibility must carry a certain kind of freedom and within that freedom the child must be taught what is good and bad for him or her in the long run.

The speaker was of a strong thought that parents in some way are responsible for whatever bad the child does. As an example he told how parents readily give phones to their children, who at present are always into an online game called PUBG, which is very harmful to the atmosphere around as well as to the child’s self growth.

The speaker advised the teachers to take responsibility of their class, train them to be good human beings and to do well for themselves as well as others around them.

For the students, his only concern was how studious each student needs to be and what great things education can do for them. He narrated his own life story regarding how he scored well and his achievements.

Fr Pradeep Sequeira briefed the parents on what parent-child relationship should be and how they need to focus on certain aspects such as personality development, self growth, prioritizing their activities and so on.

Fr Eric Mathias SJ addressed the parents on the happenings in college and how it has shaped each student in the past four months.

The session ended by thanking everyone, followed by parent-teacher interaction.

The parents showed various emotions as they saw the grades of their ward- Some were happy, some sad, some worried about their future, some had hopes they would do better and so on.

The entire day was spent by the students visiting all their subject teachers and class guides for suggestions, improvements and necessary actions to be taken in future regarding their academics and also concerning their self-growth in the college.