Tuesday 24 May 2011

World of Children

Children are the most innocent people in the world. Their world is limited and the members of that are small in number. Parents, brothers and sisters, cousins, classmates, grand parents, uncles and aunts and teachers are the members of the world. Some times this world includes neighbors depending on the conditions.

Since they are innocent children did not allow any new person in to their world so easily. They fear about new person and do not include them in to their world till they have more exposures about the new person. So any new person even a relative have to meet the children often so that they can be trusted. Kids forgot people in their early age and one should meet them often so that it could remember.

Children love their parents more than anyone in the world. They trust teachers than anyone in the world. They take whatever the teachers says for granted. They believe their friends and do whatever they say.

Understanding the children is not an easy task. They change their habits and preferences too often. If one visits a child a year later he would find that the child had acquired new habits. So we can not depend on old information about the children.

They like people who encourage them. They did not like those scold or critisise. A child did not agree that it had made a mistake because it do not know what is wrong and what is right. Making them to  distinguish between right and wrong is also tough job.

Only a teacher can make them understand what is good and what is bad. A child follows his or her teacher's advice on what to do and not to do. Most of the times children take teacher's advice like an order and do not try to defy it.

Children always question the things happening in the world. For example they question why should one wash  hands before eating anything with hand. They also question restrictions like playing in the mud and dirt.

Children start questioning about the things from two years onward. By that time they acquire speaking skills and have enough vocabulary to frame questions. They insist on convincing answers and did not compromise with what a parent or any other person tell. They did not agree with the reasoning that some things have to be taken for granted.

Up to teenage children would look like question banks to the parents. It is always advisable to encourage them to ask questions. If a child is restricted from questioning he would take everything for granted in the world stop questioning. This will make them fools after they grow up. If we do not know  the answer it is always advisable to tell the kid to find out the answer from some other.



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