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Hi I am R.Kalaivani , a Homepreneur. I was attached with the Higher Education sector in teaching for more than 12 years, then became a home maker for about 2 years for the sake of my little daughter. It was the pandemic that opened up the awesome platform of online education. I adapted quickly to use the tools to its fullest potential. There were inspiration from people who used the tools effectively viz., Khan academy, NPTEL lectures etc.  

So I decided to launch an online tuition platform for teaching the basics to tackle the competitive exams like National Talent Search Examination(NTSE), Assessment of Scholastic Skills Through Educational Testing, Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana(KVPY), Aryabhata national maths competition (from IIT Bombay) etc.

I learnt some of the skills like video editing, to launch polls, to use jam boards and digital boards for content development and delivery. Of course all this is made possible because of the good internet connectivity. The purpose behind this exercise is to earn money but at the same time to provide the worthy content at a nominal fee. Finally I launched “A Foundation course” from 8thgrade onwards, with nominal fee of Rs 1200/- per month (with 6 hours of content delivery per month). After detail study, I made it a point to deliver the important fundamentals viz., motion -related graphs, elements-classification, polynomials-related graphs, and so on.

Seven students including my daughter joined the course enthusiastically and all are doing a decent job. But when I used to talk to the parents of these students, I had a feeling that some of the parents are giving a step motherly treatment to such courses and they give importance to the regular tuition class (school lessons/syllabus) and also some of the parents underestimate the value additions given may be because of the location , less fee, comparing with other classes, (The grass is always greener on the other side.) Parents are of course parents including me.

Churning all these factors, now I have started the regular tuition  classes right  from 8th std., (of course with a little hike in the fee)  by introducing  different modules. I'm making efforts to provide them the notes, solved PYQ ,mind maps, in pdf format.

I strongly believe that whatever is happening now will be exceeded by better things  in the future.

Thank you Parent Circle for your patient listening and for nurturing my ideas.

Thank you 

R. Kalaivani, B.E., M.Tech., D.El.Ed.,

Plants have always been a part of my life. I remember spending most of my childhood learning about plants and gardening. My favourite place to visit was a plant nursery (it still is). I used to save my pocket money and buy a variety of plants for my garden. As a teen, I started to learn about plant propagation (producing new plants from an existing one). Through this technique, I had more plants in my garden and I started giving plant sampling as a gift to friends and family. Twelve years ago, one of my best friends suggested selling some of my plants at a harvest festival. That was the beginning of my small business 'Pots and Plants'. Initially, I did not have many customers and I thought of giving up. But thankfully, I did not give up and slowly through word of mouth, I started to have regular customers. One of my best sales to date - I had an opportunity to set up a garden at one of my client's places. We planted colourful ornamental plants and also created a vegetable patch from scratch.

Being in Chennai, I was on the lookout for something my son can be involved in and help to get a small income of his own. Making candles were something we were involved in from the school time of my son. It was part of the arts and crafts activities which he enjoyed doing. As my son had mobility issues, he preferred to stay at home. Making candles can be done at the comforts of our kitchen ....and that's how we started making our 'Pure Glow Candles'.

We thought making candles was easy. We had the candle making kits earlier which gave us the correct measurements. We made a bulk of candles, only to realise that many won't burn properly. That's when we learnt that a lot of maths and chemistry goes into the process of candle making.  And we as starters wanted to make the best environment friendly candles. That turned out to be pretty costly and i had the market study revealing that there is no market for environmental friendly candles. And most just wanted to light a candle when there's no power.

That got me thinking on how to take it forward.  By the grace of God, we found beautiful people in the enterprise, Twin Twigs' who was ready to help us by exhibiting our candles, and my son to get a part of the returns.

We started with making Diwali candles, and then tried to make different candles for different occasions. We could only make limited amount of candles with the space and time available, but it was done with a lot of love and commitment.

The first income that came into my son's  bank account gave us immense joy and pleasure. Though it was small, it was the fruit of his labour and it meant so much. We can be reached at www.stevinmathew.com