Less than a Minute Life Lesson-2407 Character and Competency

Who Taught Whom?

How many times have you come across your child crying over a lost toy or a broken toy?

How many times have you removed certain play items or craft material which you fill is untidy or which spoils the décor of your home?

I am sure some of us would have experienced either one of the above situation. Sometimes we would have witnessed our child crying over a broken toy which will be hardly few rupees or we would have seen our child becoming aggressive when we remove some of their material feeling it is waste.

During such situation we persuade the child by telling why are you creating fuss for a 10-rupees toy or why are you fighting for piece of colour sheet, which we can buy it.

Our authority as a parent might put an end to such drama. Some us might feel we taught the child not create a scene, but when we carefully examine the situation we failed the learn certain wonderful qualities from the child:

·         Value of what we possess need not to be valued based on the price  

·         Big or small, important or unimportant, it is subjective

·         Child has proved its ability to take care of its belonging irrespective of its price

·         Child has proved the importance of moments in life by showing the attachment with the toy

·         Child has fought for it’s rights

·         Child has proved the value of time by telling “you have wasted my craft work”

·         Child has expressed we are insensitive to their needs by being aggressive or by crying

·         Child has taught us to value things for the experience we get from it and not based on whether it is expensive or not

Now we need to reflect who taught whom

M.L.Narendra Kumar