CHENNAI : Teaching pre-nursery children can be difficult, according to young women graduates from the Teachers' Centre of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School.

The homemakers-turned-teachers joined the centre diffidently a year ago to sharpen their communication skills to handle youngsters.

But what they have since discovered is that they can handle a large classroom of noisy and mischievous children.

On Friday, at the 17th valedictory of the training programme, they paraded their newly acquired communication skills in front of the faculty, family and friends.

Value education

The women underlined the significance of inculcating Indian values such as praying in children. Their tableaux explained that children should be taught values such as being accommodative, non-violent and honest.

The women have been trained in first aid, creative drama, crafts and arts.

"Empowerment"

From the coming academic year, 16 mothers will be admitted to the course though the Centre has the capacity up to 30, said Y.G. Parthasarathy, director of PSBB. "We started the centre to educate parents. Nearly 50 per cent of our teachers have been trained here. It is about women empowerment ... the training is an outlet for mothers."

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