Parents provide a constant and consistent environment to the developing child and a school enhances cognitive and social skills. As most parents come back tired from work, have chores to complete, conference calls late at night and children have tons of homework, their world is slowly moving out of balance. To compensate this lack of energy, children are taken to malls, gaming and buying products and gadgets. But the result is that these gifts are only aiding a complex and quick behavioral process in a child that is conditional. Gazing and being with nature is being substituted for resort vacations and quick holidays. Many children, therefore, are trying to fit in the parent's lifestyle thus copying quickness where gadgets are substituting spontaneous relationships. Children are hyperactive, quick and sometimes diseases like asthma, viral infections and wheezing become common.
New age children are exposed to a wide range of information. To help children make more meaning of their world, parents play a big role through their direct interactions than substitute routines or objects. Dinner and sleep time, weekend chores can be a great tool to engage children with parents constructively.
A regular bonding time during weekend away from malls, movies and gaming can help children connect to nature in its natural best.
Parenting comes in two shades in a family - an over indulgent parent who compromises a lot, carries guilt in the relationship is overtly providing for all of the child's needs. On the other hand, a telling parent often directs and instructs not giving the child too many choices. Basic children's needs are to be safe in an environment where they can express and be understood. This allows them to share and be acknowledged. 21st century parents can provide a big, safe stadium where children feel safe.
A call to parents
"I appeal to you, to let your children dream. Let them be free to build castles in the air. In fact, encourage and support them in doing so. In the future, when you see your child actually building the castle that he/she has always dreamt of, have a proud smile on your face. And your heart, full of pride, will know that you helped him/her reach his dream by lending him a helping hand right from the time he wasn't even able to walk on his own. You helped him complete the very first and the most important phase, the foundation phase. You helped him 'dream'."
—Sri RAJ BHOWMIK
Once a very fundamental need of a child to be safe & understood in an environment is fulfilled then there is no stopping of building of castles in air by children. This Universal message / appeal by Sri Raj Bhowmik is to all the New age parents, who in a very unaware state ,are just bent upon preparing Gen . Next for the "RAT MARATHON". Its time to wake up & let the child DREAM ..to build a new & better world ...tomorrow!
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