Homeworks, Projects, Report cards, Field trips, Assessments,
Extra-curricular activities……Phew! All I hear is STRESS, STRESS, and more STRESS.
I belong to the 70’s; even though we did all of the above, we always had time
to play out in the street – cricket, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, badminton, tag
and many more, when our favorite food was from road-side push carts, our
favorite candy was Parle Poppins, our “only” TV channel was Doordarshan which
we watched diligently, when friendship was pure and unadulterated. Yes, this
how we grew up. Sweet memories!
Times have changed, kids are
of a different breed now. They sit, stand, eat, laugh Iphone, IPad, Ipod, while
dad is IPaid and Mom is IMaid. Sad but very true. Is technology to be blamed or
the lack of parenting skills? I am not sure, however, I would agree that it is
our responsibility to steer kids in the right direction. Let me reiterate
IMaid- Cooking, cleaning, laundry-ing, disciplining all doing while Blogging,
Facebooking and Whatsapping.
<Wink> We are in fact more spoiled by technology than our
children.
It has been a conscious
effort from my end to turn off all electronic devices until my kids go to bed.
Kids learn from parents, they emulate and want to occupy their lack of
attention from us on some device. Such a
wasted and unrequited love it is, isn’t it?
