Parenting

Lockdown tales – 2

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Unable to meet in person, kiddo and her friends created a WhatsApp group to interact.

They had a discussion about something – few agreed and few didn’t. One kid left the group in dissent!

When I heard about it, I was surprised for a while… that’s something I had seen only with adults.

Then I realised, it’s a basic human emotion all the same.

When we used to play cricket, the kid with the bat used to control the dynamics. Offend him and he’d walk away with the bat. Unable to handle that, I pestered my parents to buy me a new bat… and I did my fair share of ‘walking away’ as well.

Amidst all that talk about technology changing lives, human emotions are the same.. and will remain so.

Parenting and education

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What is the role of parents in the education of kids?

To me, as a parent, my role (and that of the school) is to help the child to:
– learn acceptance of who he/she is.
– not to get sucked into “identity games” of pretending to be someone the society expects him/her to be, when they are not!
– build a sense of inner-worthiness not tied to social status, job, money, rank, etc.
– pursue her/his own curiosity and enthusiasm.
– be independent.

However, all said and done, not everything is in our hands. We are merely facilitators, not enforcers. We need to learn to let go and trust the child to follow her/his own path and make her/his own life – whatever that is.