a tarred road to see the green bushes growing on the side of the road says martinswenona fernandes e vaz psychiatrist at the institute of psychiatry and human behaviour bambolim says that a childs impressionable mind needs varying kind of stimuli like sports dance music adventure all this cannot be met in an age where video games busy parents taxing school schedules and impersonal lifestyles take precedence she adds experts opine that our education system is based on outdated modules of the british system who have figured the flaws and moved on and it is time our state and country does the same tanvi kulkarni a mother of two from comba says that while she sends her elder daughter for bharatanatyam classes her son does not have the patience for it so she decided to send him for short workshops as opposed to a yearlong training course i think its best to choose one or two activities and make them the priority and let children pursue them as a hobby besides school and tuitions says kukarni adding the only way to truly understand what is best for your child is by paying attention to himher and listening to how heshe feel about the activity there is no point in paying high fees if my child is not going to enjoy what heshe is doing as i feel one can learn and be passionate about something only if you enjoy it