Now, hold on my
dears, before you read this; be prepared to face some surprises, some
embarrassments, some aah moments! Why? Kids are incredibly curious, they don’t
have adult inhibitions, and they observe everything and everybody. Their little
brain is not as tiny as you think.You realize that with the questions that
follow those observations. Never hesitate from asking questions about
what they have observed. And...if that puts us in embarrassment..Yeah then it’s
our problem and not theirs.
Firing of questions
can start at any place.. say public toilets ; "Why different toilets for
boys and girls?" Right outside some public toilet your dear little
creature wants you to tell you why separate toilets for boys and girls. Kids
are born with exemplary persuasion skills; if you avoid an answer they will not
leave you. "Why don’t you tell me? Don’t you know? And if you say, I don’t
know the next one is ready to be fired. Who will know then! In such situation
you simply want to shut the mouth of that innocent darling.
There is whole lot
of curious things around us all the time. You are walking on the road with your
little one. And mind you he/she is not as little as you feel. in your mind You
are making a list of things to be purchased from supermarket and your little
darling starts, "why is that boy wearing a saree? do boys also wear
saree?why daddy doesnt wear saree?" all you want at that moment is the boy
with a saree just disappears in a jiffy!
And mothers have no
escape from facing questions regarding good old sanitary napkins. An
advertisement on TV, stock at supermarkets triggers a round of questions.
"Mom, what’s this whisper?" err you struggle to answer the question.
Curiosity is at its best, the little one says, can i see it? Gosh, what do we
do now? One day I was in a supermarket and i heard one little devil telling the
other one, its mamma's diaper. Well, kido, not a bad explanation.
There is whole lot
of miscellaneous questions; parents have to face from time to time. What is
alcohol? Whisky? Beer? If you say it’s a kind of Sharbat. Your little one has
to question, "then why don’t you allow me to have it?" If you
say, it’s not good for kids, then the doubt crops up, something not good for
kids is allowed for elders? This is how they put you in dilemma.
We all keep talking
about stress. My little angel once asked me, “mamma, what is stress? What is
worry? Do kids also feel stressed?" and I indeed struggled to answer those
questions.
God
is another popular question area. What is God? Where does he live? If you say,
God lives in the sky, then they ask, “oh, then can we see him from airplane?
Can he see everything from the sky? So how many eyes does he have to see
everything and everybody?’’ At this moment you wish, God himself comes for your
rescue.
I
am sure all parents have their share of difficult, embarrassing, funny
questions from their kids! And that very embarrassment, that very fun, that
very surprise makes parenthood and childhood precious!
