Things I have learnt because of The Children's Post

• The incredible economy of LOVE - where money is not the motivator, neither the earning. 
•  All women teams do not indulge in conversations - like, ever. The group was never used for anything not related to work. By anyone. We shared personal updates, challenges, chatter, in the Editors's Meets. We have had ladies across education levels, geographies, and personality types.
• Making Creatives for social media. Never thought I could do it. 
• Community management on Facebook 
• Proofreading and Editing 
• Reporting for children - knowing what children will want to read, and how to write it. 
• Writing funny poetry for children 
• Contest and event management for kids - I can now get up from sleep and put one together. 
• All about CC0 to CC4. I was aware, to the extent that we needed it for Esha. But the Free Music Archive, the CC0 image websites, etc. have all been a revelation. And now i contribute to CC0 images regularly. 
• The children and their love. We made a decision to NOT use bots to manage the email volume, even when it was overwhelming. because we wanted to remember that on the other side of that email was a child. And how much we have learnt because of that rule! 
• I once read a quote that has become the goalpost on my life - If you want to know the difference your leaving will make, take out a pail of water and see the empty space left behind. There are, by any estimate, at least 100 children's news publications in India. Yet, every single one of our stakeholders - our incubation center, our mentors, our readers, subscribers, everyone who took the time to speak to us, told us that they need The Children's Post to go on. This is the ONLY exception of the hole in water theory that I am aware of. We will, I think, leave a hole in the water. And I hope that that hole will be filled with fond memories by every heart in which it exists. 
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