Kids Choo Sweet

Daily I travel by train, spending more than 5 hours travelling to and fro between Ernakulam and my home. Yeh, 5 hours!!! it can get really boring at times. When I board a train, there are two things I look for, Good looking Girls :P and Small Children and try to get a seat near them. Why small kids?? b'coz they are very cute to watch, especially when they are little naughty and to see their expressions and innocent behaviour. You can watch them for hours and time just flies by. A child is so innocent and not yet polluted by the world. When a child smiles at you, you know its comes from the heart. :)

Today I got lucky to sit near a small boy (maybe 4 years old) on my way back from Ernakulam. He was one spoiled brat, he was kicking everyone around him (even kicking and hitting his Grandpa), spilling water and not listening to his parents. There maybe people out there who think, even that is cute. Well I don't. Anyway once he became pushy, aggressive and his cries became a disturbance to people in the train compartment - his cuteness slowly faded away. When he became uncontrollable, I wondered if his parents failed their duty as a parent.

I believe parents are only temporary keepers of their child (They belong to God in the first place). Their duty is to guide their child in the right path and to teach him/her what is right so that he/she becomes a respectable human being. Also to be childs understanding friend and counsellor when the kid is a teenager. Once the child is old enough and set free into the world, the parent has done thier duty to God. Even discipling your child is part of that guidance to make him a good person, the child might cry when he is punished, but he will always thankyou for that guidance when he becomes an adult. I have heard parents say, kids needs to be smart to survive in the mordern world. These parents are just confused between smartness and street smartness, no wonder thier child turns out to be a bully. We need good citizens, not Criminals and Bullies.

Indeed, a parent moulds a childs character. There is a famous saying in kerala which I like.
"A Seed can be kept in your lap, but if it becomes a tree...... there is nothing much you can do"