CHILDREN’S DAY

revathiraghunathan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:02:36 +0000

Happy children’s day to all children in India. Is it being celebrated anywhere else?? Does children’s day need to be celebrated at all in our country ?? Does the celebration reach the target children that it is supposed to reach?? I do know that the city schools have programs, fun, games and melas as part of the celebrations. I saw on the papers pictures of children rescued from child labour posing happily. But what about the millions of children who have not been rescued from the various unfortunate situations that they are in??

I have 2 children. When my oldest was a child, i used to get him a gift every November 14 as I thought that He should have pleasant memories of the day. But I dont do the same for my younger one. I feel that the hype has put in too many expectations in the minds of children. My daughter was cribbing about the fact that she was not allowed to wear color dress on children’s day and was asked to wear uniform to school on this special day, and she is also going to celebrate with a granita in CCD. I did not want to play spoil sport and gave her money to have the fun.

Why the schools cannot take up relevant projects as part of the children’s day celebrations and celebrate childhood and also groom them to becoming more responsible adults?? If they are made responsible for bringing happiness in some small way to some other child who is not as lucky as them, then the school goes a long way in kindling social awareness in them.

Have we as humans accepted our responsibilities ??

revathiraghunathan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:00:28 +0000

For a very long time I have been having this urge to express my dissatisfaction about the way we as humans have been taking everything for granted and have not been accepting responsibilities for any of the issues in our immediate or the larger environment.

Our forefathers have literally given us the world on a golden platter, but aren’t we frittering it away and concentrating more on our individual world rather than the whole world literally.

I am an average middle class Indian who has no way of vocalizing about many issues about which I FEEL. I know that I am also one of the selfish people who I speak about in the above paragraphs. But I suppose within me there is a small spark of conscience which has now urged me to put my feelings into words.

My son Vishesh (an avid blogger) has told me that blogging is one sure way of putting my views across.

I am sure that there are a lot of like-minded people out here who will empathise with me, and maybe we could in our small way make a difference and contribute towards handing down the world on the same golden platter to our children.

Let me see if I get some company on my journey in motivating a more responsible human race.

THE RESPONSIBLE HUMAN

CHILDREN’S DAY

Have we as humans accepted our responsibilities ??