I
went to a get together few days back in a resort. We four families. We had
three kidoos in the party. Mine is four, one is 3 yrs and another one is 2 yrs
who was a girl.
The
3 yrs boy was continuously disturbing his parents. He did not like the atmosphere
probably. He wanted to go out from the place, thus was trying to pull his Dad
out all the time. Being irritated, my friend handed over a phone to the kid.
Immediately his face became more charming with a beautiful smile. He happily started
playing some games on his father’s phone. And his mother proudly said, “He is
so smart that he learnt using my smartphone when he was hardly 2yrs old. He can
spend whole the day playing games on this phone. He even uses my husband’s ipad.”
My
kid, what he would do now? He too asked for my mobile phone. Insisted so much
that I had to hand over. Could not help! Both the kids sat in a corner,
silently kept playing games, watching Youtube Car videos. The poor 2 yrs. girl,
she went and sat beside my son and quietly kept watching the videos, the games.
This
is a story of most of the little kids nowadays. This makes me feel bad,
helpless that what kind of artificial/ materialistic lifestyle they are in. And
we console ourselves saying that they are intelligent, smart kids and after
sometime we will only try to instill them the tips and tricks how to keep up
with the Joneses.
Mother
Nature used to be the only option to entertain us in our time. Nostalgic about the
way we have grown up! Playing with friends in the ground, having friends who used
to share everything, spending time in paddy field, smelling the muddy-fields,
growing vegetables, flowers, sitting endless moments under a tree...
Childhood
should be all about enjoying the beauty of Mother Nature, giggling and
playing without any worries or sadness, in the open, fresh air. Not in mock or materialistic
place or things like resort, mobile phone, ipad, television etc.
But,
can we make all these accessible to them? It’s DAMN difficult!...But NOT IMPOSSIBLE
too.
