An extension of home where a child’s body,mind and spirit are enriched’ is what defines CosmiKids, a Preschool based in Mumbai Operating from Mumbai, the unique feature of the CosmiKids is its principle belief that each child is unique and every one of them has their own pace of learning. Hence,through various fun activities, CosmiKids intends to infuse important values such as character, self-image and self-esteem development, emotional intelligence, cooperation and the power of imagination.“These days, children do not get much peer groups to play and socialize. Here, we provide them a platform to socialize, interact and this in turn helps their psychological and social development,” says Bela Kotwani, CEO and Principal, CosmiKids. In order to tangle the various characteristics, beliefs and principles among the kids, CosmiKids focuses on the life

skills that are required to survive and thrive in the real world in a loving and heart-centered way.

Rakesh Kotwani, Chief Financial Officer, CosmiKids says, “We believe in competing with ourselves and not others. This makes us work on our own ideation, to make the institute facilitate more to the children’s and their parents. ”CosmiKids strongly feels that competition and comparison will take away the real essence of what they intend to do for a child’s growth. There fore, they ensure that the child is safe and secure, and emphasize on the importance of social and emotional skills inducing dimensions of exploration and self-discovery.

The teachers indulge them selves at a one on-one level with a child and enable them to follow their best possible way to learn important lessons of life. The management takes pride in the expertise of the teaching staff of CosmiKids, as each of them comes with an ample amount of experience from the education field and have requisite skills to nurture these innocent souls into great humans. Not only do they teach, but also they learn through various training programs that are conducted every three months. These trainings include story telling sessions, behavioral training, taken either by their in-house team or experts from various institutes. At present, over

18 teaching and non-teaching staff members nurture 70 children in the three centers with a teacher-child ratio of 1:8 and 1:5 for different programs respectively.

CosmiKids is not purely an Indian establishment. Founded by Judy Julin, an Educational pace setter,author and a heart centered business leader, CosmiKids was initially launched in California, U.S. CosmiKids is renowned for crafting and developing a host of new cutting edge concepts, activities and inspiring avenues of expression for kids across the world. Bringing this revolutionary new child enrichment center to India is Kidsology Educare Pvt.Ltd.,an Indian company incorporated on 2011 to empower the kids to discover their essential potential and make them a self-assured learner. Kidsology Educare Pvt.Ltd is also a Master Franchisee of CosmiKids, U.S.

CosmiKids has also co-created a unique, multi-sensory educational methodology called ‘Resonant Learning Approach’ (RLA),a one-ofa-kind, multi-generational learning center that incorporates the beliefs of the institute sofar. CosmiKids looks forward to expand to 17 more centers in the next five years,enriching their strong belief of Self-Discovery through play stimulating all the senses of the child, and facilitated by warm and heart centred teachers.