My son is five years today. In these five years, time has really flown by and we as parents and my parents as grandparents have really enjoyed this journey, a journey of new findings and discoveries. The idiom that Child is the father of man, seems bang on as a child has so many things to re-teach us, the adults, who in the process of daily mundane activities and quest for more and more materialistic pleasures in life, seem to either forget or ignore.
The top five things to learn from a child from my own experiences are as follows:
1) Live today to the fullest- A child is oblivious to the fact that there is a tomorrow and hence tries to enjoy today to the fullest. It cherishes what it has in the present and tries to enjoy it. A paper aeroplane, on day will give him as much joy and happiness as toy one, on another.
2) Small things in life actually give happiness- Last week, my son was watching "The River Monsters" on Nat Geo and he called us to watch the same. His grandparents and myself came to watch the same but my wife who was watching her favorite soap, did not come at that time. We continued watching the "River Monsters" and wifey continued to watch her tele serial.and came a little later after her serial ended. As soon as she came, my son became excited and happy. The reason, he enjoyed the fact that all of us were watching the same programme on TV at the same time. A simple small thing that gave a lot of happiness.
3) Have empathy- The son of our watchman got hurt while playing and was crying when we came back from an outing in which my son had a great time. The gas balloon in his hand, which he himself asked for, was a reminiscent of the joyful time we had. The decibel level of crying of the watchman's son on seeing the balloon rose as he too wanted to have the same. My son initially refused to part with his balloon but when he was told about the injury that the other baby had suffered and saw his wound, be did not blink an eyelid and gave the balloon to my watchman's injured son.
4) Be imaginative- My son lets his imagination go wild and tries to find identifiable shapes and figure in virtually everything. His main interests seem to lie in nature's own lap. He gets great pleasure in observing passing clouds, gazing at the constellations at night and trying to follow the many birds that throng the trees. Sometimes, during the monsoons, in the rain droplets on the window pane he sees numbers, patterns that the droplets make while yielding to the gravitational forces and on other occasions he can trace the face of a bear in the sky. Imagination breeds creativity and creativity is fast becoming a scare resource in today's world of standardizations.
5) Be inquisitive and never fear to question- My son asks a lot of questions. In his vocabulary Why and How, overpower most other words. He is learning the way of life through many innocuous questions and his buzzing mind acts as a sponge, eager to absorb things. He has an open mind and that again is a very scarce resource in the present time. He is never fearful of asking questions and solving doubts, a great thing to learn from children, as lingering doubts not only have an adverse effect on a person's confidence but also have an adverse effect on his overall productivity.
All members of Blue Caramel, whether in Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur or Mumbai, lets all rewind and try to recollect the traits that all of us had when we were kids, these precious, innocent traits that overtime have got eroded due to our running the "Rat Race" for more materialistic pleasures at the cost of being a better human.
The top five things to learn from a child from my own experiences are as follows:
1) Live today to the fullest- A child is oblivious to the fact that there is a tomorrow and hence tries to enjoy today to the fullest. It cherishes what it has in the present and tries to enjoy it. A paper aeroplane, on day will give him as much joy and happiness as toy one, on another.
2) Small things in life actually give happiness- Last week, my son was watching "The River Monsters" on Nat Geo and he called us to watch the same. His grandparents and myself came to watch the same but my wife who was watching her favorite soap, did not come at that time. We continued watching the "River Monsters" and wifey continued to watch her tele serial.and came a little later after her serial ended. As soon as she came, my son became excited and happy. The reason, he enjoyed the fact that all of us were watching the same programme on TV at the same time. A simple small thing that gave a lot of happiness.
3) Have empathy- The son of our watchman got hurt while playing and was crying when we came back from an outing in which my son had a great time. The gas balloon in his hand, which he himself asked for, was a reminiscent of the joyful time we had. The decibel level of crying of the watchman's son on seeing the balloon rose as he too wanted to have the same. My son initially refused to part with his balloon but when he was told about the injury that the other baby had suffered and saw his wound, be did not blink an eyelid and gave the balloon to my watchman's injured son.
4) Be imaginative- My son lets his imagination go wild and tries to find identifiable shapes and figure in virtually everything. His main interests seem to lie in nature's own lap. He gets great pleasure in observing passing clouds, gazing at the constellations at night and trying to follow the many birds that throng the trees. Sometimes, during the monsoons, in the rain droplets on the window pane he sees numbers, patterns that the droplets make while yielding to the gravitational forces and on other occasions he can trace the face of a bear in the sky. Imagination breeds creativity and creativity is fast becoming a scare resource in today's world of standardizations.
5) Be inquisitive and never fear to question- My son asks a lot of questions. In his vocabulary Why and How, overpower most other words. He is learning the way of life through many innocuous questions and his buzzing mind acts as a sponge, eager to absorb things. He has an open mind and that again is a very scarce resource in the present time. He is never fearful of asking questions and solving doubts, a great thing to learn from children, as lingering doubts not only have an adverse effect on a person's confidence but also have an adverse effect on his overall productivity.
All members of Blue Caramel, whether in Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur or Mumbai, lets all rewind and try to recollect the traits that all of us had when we were kids, these precious, innocent traits that overtime have got eroded due to our running the "Rat Race" for more materialistic pleasures at the cost of being a better human.
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