Kids! Kids! Kids! In India kids are all over the streets, transports and where not? But when it comes to their well being, things shrink down only to food, physical health and for the lucky few, education. We don't see much discussion on their emotional needs, spiritual growth or standardizing their sense of ethics. When discussion is scarce, implementation does not have much hope in the queue. Why is this so? Let us analyze!
Most probably because, we don't take our kids seriously enough. We are concerned only about their physical future and their emotional security goes for a toss. We all are busy mixing health drinks for them while they are emotionally thirsty. Neither do we parents think about what our kids want to convey, nor are we bothered about how they feel when we don't feel their pain.
Right from their new born state to their day of marriage, we all are anxiously looking at their bank balance, their social status and to some their educational qualification. We don't look at their eyes, we don't see how genuine their smiles are and still what do they really want from us. We let them cry when we give them bath, we don't believe them when they say they don't want that food any more, we make them study forcefully when their minds are preoccupied. We rarely allow them to choose a career and lifestyle of their own and even choosing their own spouse is mostly not acceptable for us.
We know kids cry because they don't have the knowledge of words. But aren't we forgetting that even newborn babies can smile? Can't we stop ourselves and look once whether we can convert their tears into smiles, when it is in their formative stage, and give shape to their mind-frame the concept of love, affection, communicability and sense of humanity?
Most probably because, we don't take our kids seriously enough. We are concerned only about their physical future and their emotional security goes for a toss. We all are busy mixing health drinks for them while they are emotionally thirsty. Neither do we parents think about what our kids want to convey, nor are we bothered about how they feel when we don't feel their pain.
Right from their new born state to their day of marriage, we all are anxiously looking at their bank balance, their social status and to some their educational qualification. We don't look at their eyes, we don't see how genuine their smiles are and still what do they really want from us. We let them cry when we give them bath, we don't believe them when they say they don't want that food any more, we make them study forcefully when their minds are preoccupied. We rarely allow them to choose a career and lifestyle of their own and even choosing their own spouse is mostly not acceptable for us.
We know kids cry because they don't have the knowledge of words. But aren't we forgetting that even newborn babies can smile? Can't we stop ourselves and look once whether we can convert their tears into smiles, when it is in their formative stage, and give shape to their mind-frame the concept of love, affection, communicability and sense of humanity?
