Application to develop life skills in school children launched

The stress levels of children in Mumbai and Bangalore were higher at 80% and 65% respectively but that is not a comfort for the Chennaiites! While this is so, today’s typical parents have another major concern – their child is totally locked up with his mobile or the desktop or the ipad or the tablet, playing some video game or the other or generally lost in the world of social media and the internet.

Ramachandran Kannan, an XLRI alumnus and a HR professional turned academician, seems to have come up with a workable solution to this vexing issue, courtesy, the innovative and engaging application Scooldudes formally launched in Chennai.

The timing could not have been better what with the summer vacations just about to commence and the parents and children desperate to seek promising after-school engagement programs.

Launching the Scooldudes App, B Santhanam, Managing Director, Saint Gobain India said that this innovative effort will go a long way in addressing the major concern of today’s parents and exhorted the children and parents to fully utilise the functionalities of the application.

He mentioned that there are outbound activities to provide experiential learning that would help in developing the life skills of children such as self-awareness, social skills, communication, interpersonal relationship, coping with stress, decision making among others.

He mentioned about a dozen programs available in the app such as J4M (Just 4 Minutes), Community Connect, Work and Learn, Career Wise, P Files, Wassup, etc., to ensure development of these skills in children. With over 10,000 participants already signed in, Scooldudes gives children an opportunity to bond with their counterparts through various activites.