I raised two children. They taught me how to teach.
Hi, I'm Alka.
MBA · Former teacher, Mothers International School · 15+ years with children
Long before I was anyone's tutor, I was a mother of two. Two very different children, with two very different ways of figuring out the world.
One of them learned by asking a hundred questions. The other learned by going quiet and watching. Same home, same dinner table — completely different doors into the same idea.
That's where I learned the thing I now build every lesson around: a child doesn't need to be pushed harder. They need to be met where they are.
I went on to teach at Mothers International School in Delhi, and somewhere along the way I picked up an MBA too. But honestly, the bit of my CV that matters most to your child is still the first one — I've sat on the other side of the homework table, on the hard evenings, and I remember exactly what it felt like.
Today I run Aspire & Bloom as a small, deliberately personal practice for children in Grades 2–8. I keep my list short — no more than 12 families at a time — because I'd like to know your child the way a good aunt would. What lights them up. What makes them shrink. What they're secretly proud of.
My job, as I see it, is simple: to be a patient adult in your child's week, and to gently hand them back the joy of learning — one small, real win at a time.
Every child has the potential. I'd love to help yours bloom.