For the past
two days our region has been receiving some rain with thunder and lightning in
the night; the weather is cool and pleasant in the night but in the day time it
is still hot. In Adelaide too, there was storm and heavy rain. My grandson enjoys
the rainy season and I do not know how
he feels there. After having seen his face in the FB my thoughts revolved
around not just him but many young children, their worries and concerns ,fears
and imaginations dreams and desires especially when they find themselves in a
new environment.Since they are children they adapt themselves effortlessly. And
yet there will be a secret desire in their subconscious mind to see the old
faces and hear their voices. Their advantage today is that they live in virtual
world and communication channels are wide open. But it is always better that
they should delink for a while so as to absorb into the new soil for their
growth.
Fortunately
for him there is no school but by a strange quirk of fate he does not have
company to play at home; a few children are there but far away and that he gets
a chance to meet once in a while .My boy’s advantage is that he has
understanding parents and hence he is escaping from the injection of the
academics into his head . parents are his world.
There is a
dilemma for young kids below five or six which language they should concentrate
or focus upon. When Indian children are forced to read everything in English as
if they were born in UK we can well
imagine the complexities in a foreign soil where you have to breathe in English
with their accent. At the same time one cannot ignore the roots –the mother tongue.
To some extent my boy was lucky to be in his native soil for the first three
years and some minimum spoken Tamil he must have already grasped. Slowly he will get exposed to
the academic climate there and get used to it.
Before I
conclude I feel like taking a few words and sentences from and Thomas Murray to make the children know what
they ought to know when they grow up; in what follows I condense a few of his sermons
as a sample:
what I want my children to know and realize that life is not lived in lifetime or
even seasons but in sunny morning and
snowy afternoon.I want my children to understand that the world is about
people, that we will get from them no more than we give ,that we will always be
happier human beings when we love than we hate, when we help than when we hurt.
I want them to know that almost everyone can
achieve whatever he thinks he can achieve. I want a child to understand that if
he believes in himself, he can use his energy to work towards what he wants to
be or do and not In wondering whether he is good enough to try. For worry will
wear him out as fast as work and worse will tie him to the starting line.(note:my
second grand daughter was instrumental for typing and the theme was defined
when I saw arjun on the FB)
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