Putharekulu – failures of children should be celebrated

2 children in our community approached me and told me that they wanted to make Putharekulu (A sweet involves a very complex process and patience and skills).

Being their facilitator(teacher) I’m (Vinay Hoysala) responsible for checking feasibility and then facilitating this activity.

If it’s not feasible then we would have an open dialogue to achieve a solution which is mutually acceptable.

If agreed then I have to prepare myself to map any academic concepts that can be covered through this activity, if not already done. And children agree to learn academics as there is a purpose.

I facilitated them to watch a youtube video and take notes of the recipe.

While watching the video I understood the complexity of this dish and I was very certain that these children will not be able to achieve it. But I didn’t want to disappoint them. I always  let them make mistakes  and I took this opportunity and started preparing myself to teach them that failures are part of life and it should be celebrated because we learn a lot more from failure rather than success.

They started in the morning at 10am and by 8pm they came back with disappointment.

I had already meditated over this and was ready with a wonderful story. Along with these 2 children other children were there when I narrated the healing story I created and offered Mysore Pak(a sweet famous in Karnataka) to celebrate their failure.

The 2 children had tears in their eyes. They hugged me and said we learnt that it’s okay to fail but we will try again 😇

Let’s celebrate failures because failures teach us a lot more than success 😊.

*That’s why failures are many but success is only one*