To day children are deprived of their childhood in the name of education.Children below three years are sent to pre prepararatorty .They may even be sent at the age of 1 as pre-pre-preparatory.What can the child comprehend at this age ? Are we not torturing children by not allowing children their nearness to parents.?Children need parents’ physical proximity till they are at least five years old.Both the parents work; they do not have time to take care of children.So, children are packed off to school.If you can’t take care of children, why beget children?
You leave children in creche , they leave you when you are old in old age homes.Have a heart!Allow children to grow normally.A Tamil Poet says’ study as soon as you get up early in the morning,then music,play in the evening’What could be a better educational system than this?We nurture thinking machines and not human beings of flesh and blood.
Tag: Family
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On Childhood.
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ON Happiness
Happiness is a state of mind.It has nothing to do with what you possess.The more you possess the more you want.Desire is like ghee poured in fire;the more you pour ,more it burns. and demands more.
When you chase money, you can not enjoy it as you are busy chasing it.Others around you only enjoy.At the end of the day you can eat only what your stomach can hold and you can sleep what your body demands.By earning more money,these things do not change.
Ambition and achievements are ok.But at what cost?When ambitions drive you to to the detriment of of your health and happiness it is not worth pursuing.
Contentment is the key to Happiness.
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Parenting.
Parenting is instinctive.It is strange that people read books to be a parent.Take the instance any living being;they take care of their offspring.They do not read books nor do they attend seminars.
Problem lies in the fact that adults have become self centred and their pleasures take the driving seat in their lives.Beyond a particular age(this varies,depending on one’s maturity), one compromises him/herself for their offsprings.Sadly this is lacking today.
In cases where people resort to reading books etc. it is generally born of a guilt feeling that they they have neglected children.Especially when both parents work, the child is left on its own.You also do forget what needs to be done to it;even if you know, you have no time;for material comforts are important to you.
I have my brother’s grand daughter in London in a senior position.
She has a three year old son.Suddenly she has resigned her job.Reason-She overheard her 3 year old son telling his friends that he does not like his mother going to office and he does not want to tell her directly lest he may hurt her.
Children yearn for physical presence and you also know it.Why do not we listen to our own voice, instead of trying to justify on economic considerations?If you leave the child in a creche , the child will leave you, when grown up, in an Elders’s home.
Parenting, especially to women is in born;nurture it;you do not need books and seminars.Be yourself and be happy.Remember money is an instrument of Happiness, not Happiness.You can buy a pillow,not sleep.
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