Doesn’t parenting a 21st century child bring with itself a whole lot of opportunities along with challenges? None of us might have ever imagined the presence of the deadly ‘blue whale’ game to be one of the worst fears faced by adults in current times. Have we conveniently forgotten the times when these humble words like an apple or a whale were simply related
with fruits and sea life respectively? Today they impend to become words in a dictionary for the steep influence that has been generated and in the case of the blue whale, definitely not a very constructive one! Our little munchkins today are being raised up in a world that is nowhere close to the world we grew up in and hence we as parents
have a very scanty or absolutely no knowledge of what the future years have in store for our kid’s. As responsible guardians all we can do is effectively make use of the powerful weapon of communication and the skill to get involved with our children by sharing reflections from the various life lessons that have been learnt by us about efficiently dealing with perplexing situations.
It often amazes me on how as grownups, we hope that our children should absorb all the right ethics and morals, but yet we invest very little time on educating the same to them – for instance, the common parental proclamations like, “You never value life” or “You fail to appreciate the significance of money” have merely become a part of a parent’s resource bank when interactive.
A simple example would be if you have always offered your child with a vehicle and a driver, they will never get to experience traveling by a public transport. The moment this turns into a matter of over indulgence, with no discontinuation from your side, there is no way you can blame your child. When you sit and look back at your childhood days,
you must have understood the value of money and might have comprehended when your parents told you something you liked was expensive. Times then were way to different from what it is today, as children then, we acknowledged a lot more only because we were never provided with a justification or a reason to start with.
