KIDS

“Kids nowadays are so smart,” you must have often heard people say this. I have. I think it’s true and have put it to the test too…

Kids nowadays are exponentially smarter than their counterparts a few decades ago.
I’m not sure, if we feel that way because we ourselves have grown out of that phase or because we underestimate our kid’s knowledge and are surprised when pearls of wisdom flow out of their minds…
Whatever it is, I’m sure some kind of research must go into it or has already gone into it.

As far as I am concerned, I rather spend time talking to kids than have a conversation with adults who frankly bore me or are too conniving for my liking. This is precisely the reason why, spending time with kids is so pleasurable

But the flip side to the coin would be the undeniable fact, that kids nowadays lose their innocence very fast. Much faster than we did. Blame the media, popular culture or busy parents for it.

But still, every now and then when something innocent comes out of their mind it makes them that much more adorable.

We must remember childhood doesn’t last forever. Cherish and enjoy every moment of your kids childhood. Kids have a fresh way of looking at life. They aren’t tainted with prejudices and biases we have developed. Make every effort to listen and pay attention to your child’s every action and apparent blabber. You never know, what pearls of wisdom they might contain. Before you know it they lose their innocence, so don’t be pre-occupied with problems of daily existence. Make every conceivable effort to document his/her childhood through pictures, video and audio recordings, because when teenage arrives and those hormones it brings along with it, kicks in. The angry rebellious creature you see in front of you won’t resemble the kid you once knew. Those pictures and videos will be the only solace that you can draw comfort from, that teenage too is another phase that will pass.
Just like the wonderful childhood that disappeared right in front of your eyes,


Here’s a few anecdotes about children that I have compiled, which shows the innocent, smart and adorable sides of kids…

5-year-old Shreya, my niece (whom I call my little Madam Curie) is desperate to know, the whereabouts of her cousin Ajay, who is playing cricket… On being asked, the reason for her curiosity. Her reply “I want to go cheer for him, I want to be the cheer leader for his team,” she says while wriggling her body in an apparent dancing motion to some imaginary music in her head… As adorable and cute as that scene was, it is yet another example, how popular culture has taken over our kid’s imagination…

On another occasion, I was taking her to the store, to buy her some candy. Since the pavement was un-even, I decided to carry her, even as I bent down to pick her up. She told me sternly,”don’t carry me, I’m a big girl now.” My mind immediately flashed back to my childhood, even as a gangling 9 or 10 year-old, I remember pestering my parents to carry me everywhere... Not for little Shreya though, even at the tender age of five she believes she is a big-girl and wants to navigate the treacherous un-even pavement on her own… Talk about being, independent!

Ivan Jeremiah, who is just two-and-half-years old, has mastered the art of getting back at his parents, whenever they refuse to acknowledge his demands for chocolates… He gets back at them by telling every visitor who comes home, that he’s been made to starve the whole day…
‘Mama didn’t feed me anything, from morrrrrning,” he says, with the most innocent face he can muster. To the utter, red-faced embarrassment of his parents….

Talking about embarrassments, another kiddo who has mastered the art of embarrassing her mother is my 3-year-old, niece, Neha.
Our favorite past-time during family get-together’s is to ask the little one, “Neha how did mamma beat you?” Without hesitating for a moment. She replies, “Mamma beat me patta, patta, pattaaa.”
Trying to mimic the sound the apparent beatings made, embarrassing her mother to the core. It is another matter though, that this apparent beating happened only in the vivid imagination of little Neha.
U never know, we probably have a potential writer or film-maker in little Neha.

5-year-old Nipun was enjoying his holidays to the hilt. So his father gave him strict instruction to make a timetable and follow it everyday. The idea being, that instead of spending the whole day playing, he can study, learns music, paint or do something constructive. So Nipu got down to business, he wants pencil, paper and silence in the house while he goes about planning his timetable, he finished after sometime. Curious we went and had a peek.
TimeTable
7am - 8am : Breakfast.
8am - 10am : Playing on my playstation.
10am - 1pm : playing with Leo and Naveen.(His friends)
1pm - 2pm : Lunch.
2pm - 5:30pm : Sleeping.
Finally in the end just before his father comes home from work.
5:30pm - 6pm : STUDYING.