Planetspark Review – Rishabh Parents
                     Planetspark Review – Rishabh Parents
PlanetSpark gave us great hope when we were about to give up 
on our son's dreams. My 15-year-old son Rishabh looks a lot like 
his father, and as he grew up, he wanted to be like his father, 
Brajesh, a business analyst in branch of a top Telecom company 
located in Bangalore, where we live. Although he is 15, he has 
already decided in his heart that he will join the BBA program to 
get a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, and he has 
been preparing very much for it. He also planned that after 
completing the Bachelor of Business Administration(BBA), he 
would get a Master of Business Administration (MBA) as he was 
intent on being at the top of his field. As I am always at home, I 
make sure to support and help him as much as I can. He has 
been making progress. However, he found it difficult to 
communicate, and he had to deal with this stumbling block. 
Communication skills were highly rated during interviews and 
group discussions in the  BBA program.
My Rishabh is brilliant and a quick learner, but when it 
came to communicating in English, there was usually a 
problem. He understood English, but he was not fluent in 
speaking it. He wanted to go to one of those top schools 
where speaking in English was needed, so he needed to 
develop on that. I was not very fluent in English myself, 
and so just like him, I would often mix up my English and 
Hindu. Brajesh, who could have been of great help, was 
hardly at home because he traveled a lot for work, so 
Rishabh and I were mainly alone at our house. Brajesh 
also noticed his difficulty in communicating in English, 
and he tried to be of help whenever he came home, but it 
was not enough.
Rishabh began to take it upon himself to speak only in 
English, but that was hard because when he couldn't find the 
right words to use, he got very frustrated, and sometimes, 
he acted out.  One time, I had offered to be his audience 
while he explained his assignment to me in English, and not 
even two sentences in, he was a blubbering mess, trying to 
figure out which word to use and stop the Hindu words from 
coming out. When I saw how much this was taking a toll on 
him, I decided to speak to his teacher in school, Ms Uma. 
She acknowledged that this was a general problem in school, 
and the school head was thinking of adding some more 
courses to the curriculum to help the student improve. 
Although she had assured me that my son would improve his 
communication, that wasn't forthcoming, so I decided to use 
a different means.
Sonam, our neighbour's daughter, who was very reserved and 
didn't like talking to anyone, had attended a class that had helped 
her come out of her shell, which impressed anyone. I asked Mrs 
Shukla, her mother, what lessons she had taken and if they could 
help my son, too, even though his problem was different. And that 
was the first time I heard about PlanetSpark. Mrs Shukla showed 
me the PlanetSpark Review that convinced her to enrol her child in 
the program, but it was not enough to win me over. She showed 
me more, and when I saw more cases like Rishabh's, I had hope. I 
told Brajesh about this, and I also showed him some of the 
PlanetSpark Reviews Mrs Shukla had sought out for me because 
Brajesh is not easily convinced; he thought it a good idea and 
enrolled Rishabh in it. When contemplating which program to 
choose, Brajesh decided that it was best to go all the way, and so 
he signed our son up for the 165 class excellence program to 
ensure overall development.
A PlanetSpark Reviews from a parent spoke very highly of Miss 
Shivani, and although we couldn't pick who our son's teacher would 
be, we hoped to get someone like her. Miss Shivaniwas the teacher 
Rishabh got on PlanetSpark. I must say, she was charming indeed. 
She told us that Rishabh struggled to communicate in English 
because he didn't know many English words. When she said that, I 
became highly optimistic because she had first found out the root 
of my son's problem, like one parent mentioned in the PlanetSpark
 Reviews I read. Now that we knew the problem, it was easy to find 
the solution. 
 
To help my son build his English vocabulary, Miss Shivanibegan 
recommending books written in English to him. Although they were 
a little below his age standard, I understood it was all the process. 
She advised him to write down any word he could not understand, 
learn how to spell it, and find out what it meant. During some 
classes, she dictated some new terms to help him get better. 
Miss Shiva's effort paid off. We 
got a call from his school, and 
they complimented us on our 
son's improvement and how he 
was one of the few kids who 
spoke English fluently in school. 
His teacher selected him to 
represent the school in a 
debate competition. The 
debate was supposed to be 
totally in English, and although 
my son was nervous, after just 
one session with Miss Shiva, he 
was excited to go for the 
debate. His father and I went to 
watch him speak. He did so 
great that he came home with 
the silver medal.
With all the past effort Rishabh has put into passing the interviews 
he will have before starting, and during his BBA and MBA, we 
already knew that half of the work was done, and he was set for 
success on this path. And now that his communication skills have 
improved, we know nothing is holding him back, and we hope to 
see him excel in his BBA interviews and group discussions when the 
time comes.
 
However, I wish more grammar activities were added to the 
curriculum. Rishabh is a fast learner, and he always wants to learn, 
so I would like this to be an avenue to widen his scope of English 
vocabulary. Also, since I helped him with studying a lot, I noticed 
that he loved my involvement with his lessons, and when I spoke in 
English, he got excited and wanted to know more. In a way, his 
progress spurs me to broaden my knowledge of English vocabulary 
so I can keep up with him. Still, I was wondering if more activities 
that involved his father and I could be brought up to put him more 
in the mood for learning.