The Wind Chimes

Stand up Rohan, hurry up, you are getting late for the school !

Finish your lunch soon, you have to do your home work!

What are you waiting for? Finish your home-work, we have to leave for your guitar classes!

I think everybody is familiar with these sentences.The reason of this haste?

Upbringing of children in nuclear family and that too ,with working parents. So the tight time schedule forces parents to finish everything in time, which in turn, affects the little ones of the house also. 

The kids, “the wind chimes” of every home, fill the home with their melodious tunes, and are small bundles of the joy with unlimited positive energy. When a baby steps into our life, we feel ourselves on cloud nine. Even with the thought, before they come into our lap, we feel ourselves as the richest person of the world and wait eagerly to welcome and cherish them.

But, the shelf life of this celebration is too short to enjoy. As soon as, we get into our daily routine (both in professional and personal), we do forget to enjoy with them. Instead, we start to take them for granted and give our preferences to daily routine over them. Unconsciously we take them as a routine work/responsibility which has to be finished in time. Without conscious participation of mind, our emotional feelings are overborne by mechanical doings, and little champs are forced to follow hush-hush lifestyle.

Result—our bundles of joy are always under the pressure to finish everything within given time limit (time-out schedule), whether it is a school time, or a lunch time, or a homework time, or the nap time or the play time. This punctuality/ steadfastness ride high on their own time.

Same time they are also expected to be perfect in social mannerism like any other adult/mature person. So, unknowingly we treat them as a computer/ a machine/ a robot, where outputs should be proper,and definite.

We forget to allow them to do or relish the things, they want to do, according to their age. Instead they are imposed to follow our schedule.

Though their innocence manages to steal opportunities from the strict rules and regulatory ambience, and of course, it is the beauty of the childhood.                                    

So let’s pause for some time and ponder about our bundles of joy, their priorities and their freedom. We are blessed to have them and to relish beautiful moments with them.

Let‘s spare some time to talk, to play, and to interact with the kids. Let’s see the things from their eyes and help them to grow naturally, It will definitely add beautiful colors in their canvas of happiness. This friendly environment will also help us, to keep the stress off, and for sure many of your problems will get solutions from their innocence.

To have a discipline in life is essential, but it should not scorch their childhood innocence, freedom and happy moments. Let them be angels, do not expect them to act as a mature person, or as a robot that responds in defined way to different commands.

 SEEMA