LIFESMART 100-Day Lab

Welcome to LIFESMART Parenting

Move
Connect, Learn

Review our first Move, Connect, Learn 30-Day e-book. Watch the videos, review the tips and explanations, and explore with your child!

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Do a 100-Day Project

Move
Connect, Learn

Follow the 100-Day project to explore the activities and tips in the e-book gradually. The 100-Day project guide gives a more detailed explanation of ideas in the e-book. It is also a way to process the information slowly over time. For example, one tip is discussed in every ten day period.

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Move, Connect, Learn

Guided by the Four LIFE Goals

Learning Daily

Implement daily rhythms and learning experiences to facilitate daily learning.

Interests

Discover and nurture the learner's interests. Make learning experiences more interesting.

Family

Manage parent and child stress and enrich parent-child interactions daily.

Engagement

Expand opportunities to engage neighbors, friends, community organizations etc.

100 Days of Move, Connect, Learn

The 100-Day project is broken down into three 30-Day projects.

30-Day Project for Parents

Click the links to view the first ten activities in the 30-Day project board below. These activities are designed to explore the Move, Connect, Learn content gradually over a 30 day period. The short daily activities will enable you to implement the e-book content in small steps.

You can also follow this link to view the full 30-Day e-book.

100 Days of Move, Connect, Learn

Do your own 100-Day Project

After reading the e-book, we invite you to start your 100-Day project of Move, Connect, Learn with your child. Explore ideas, activities, and tips from the e-book in small ways daily for 100 days.

LIFESMART Goals

Use the activities in Move, Connect, and Learn e-book to address the four LIFE goals. The outcomes map presented above focuses on goals for individual learners. In contrast, the LIFE goals are more systemic. For example, enhancing family interactions is one of the four LIFE goals. Consider the LIFE goals and the outcomes map while organizing your 100-Day project.

The LIFE goals are:

L: Evolve Learning routines and habits
I: Discover and nurture Interests
F: Enrich Family interactions
E: Enhance Engagement with community

A 100-Day project is a special type of SMART (Specific, Measurable. Attainable, Relevant, Time-framed) project whose duration is 100 days.

Move, Connect, Learn

Enhancing Family Interactions

Move, Connect, and Learn is the first e-book and a key resource for LIFESMART Parenting. Parents and children move together to connect and to learn long before children learn to speak.

This e-book is a collection of activities for parents to do with their child. Other caregivers and professionals can also do these activities with children.

The e-book also presents ten tips for parents to enhance interactions with their child. These tips can be used while doing the activities and also in other activities.

Watch the activity videos. Respond to the questions in the video guide.
Review the Outcomes Map. Think about the outcomes that can be addressed by the activity.
Review the ten tips for parents.
Join the Conversation.
Follow the link to join our Whatsapp group.

Experiential Movement

Our Move, Connect, Learn work is based on the Theater Arts for Holistic Development (TAHD) approach developed by Dr. Ambika Kameshwar. Our focus is on experiential movement as praticed in TAHD.

Experiential movement refers to a form of physical activity that emphasizes personal exploration, self-awareness, and expression through movement. It involves engaging in various types of movement practices with a focus on experiencing the sensations, emotions, and connections within one’s body as one interacts with the environment. As you review this ebook, one key issue to consider is: What types of movement activities should we include in a child's movement diet? Daily walk, chores, play, sports, and many other forms of movement activities can be incorporated. Parents are often aware of the need for movement and do include different kinds of movement. Our goal is to encourage parents to include experiential movement in their child’s movement diet.

Watch the videos below for a brief introduction to RASA and our journey.

About RASA

Ananth's Theater Arts for Holistic Development (TAHD) Journey

Ananth's Adventures

A few playlists on our Ananth's Adventures Youtube channel are shown below. These playlists provide include the videos in the e-book as well as additional resources.

Learning Concepts

Body Awareness

Bharatanatyam Basics

Storytelling - The Theater Arts for Holistic Development (TAHD) Way

Our Team

Dr. Dasaratha Rama

Parent and Professor, Developer of LIFESMART approach

Ananth Raghunandan

Student Ambassador, Ramana Sunritya Aalaya (RASA) and Theater Arts for Holistic Development (TAHD)

Ujwal Jagadeesh

Senior Faculty and Artist, Ramana Maharshi Center for Learning (RMCL)

Move, Connect, Learn

How it Began

The seed for the 100 Days of Move, Connect, Learn project was planted in 2022 when we organized a 100 Days project in collaboration with RASA. We gained experience in hosting 100-Day projects in the community. More importantly, the Move, Connect, Learn team formed during this project.
Ananth started his Bharatanatyam journey in 2012. After completing his arangetram he joined RASA as an online student. Learning Bharatanatyam with a TAHD approach seemed like the right path for him and he started learning dance with Ujwal Jagadeesh.
When we started the 100-Day Lab, Ananth demonstrated a few lessons for the 100-Day project with Ujwal. Then, Ananth started narrating stories and the Ananth's Adventures Youtube channel took shape. Another important milestone was the e-book written by Dr. Dasaratha Rama for RASA. In the meantime, Ananth and Rama continued to explore web development with Mr. Manu Sekar at HashHackCode. These experiences came together in our Move, Connect, Learn project!

Move, Connect, Learn E-book

Move
Connect, Learn