It is not easy to be a kid

How many of us have often loosely made the statement saying, “I wish I was a kid!!” What is to do? Eat play and sleep. Well when we were kids we wanted to be adults, as we could see how are parents could get what they wanted, they never had to hear a “no”. It felt their life was so easy, they didn’t have to study, they could come and go out of the house anytime. 

At each stage of our life we experience our own set of challenges that we keep forgetting as time passes by. It is only when we actually get to live the same situation that we realise what it actually takes to be there and live in it. As a mother I now see a different side of a kid, or say a toddler. It is difficult for him to express all that he wants in his actions and his behaviour, he sometimes tries to replicate the behaviour of adults at home to make us understand his emotions and thought processes. He gets cranky when he is unable to express, not because of not being able to get what he wants but with his failure to express what and why he wants it. Something that looks nothing to me means a lot to him. The small toy that he wants to carry all the time or keep by his side adds no value to me but means the world to him. There are many such examples that we live everyday in our lives. 

Next time when you deal with your child remember something that’s not important to you can actually be most important to her. Try to understand that reason that she is unable to express, go back to your childhood. You have been there you can certainly understand your child better. Your today’s understanding will make your bond stronger tomorrow and shape up your child to be a more confident and better person.

P.S Him/her has been used for a child interchangeably as each one is equally valuable.

Proud Mother,

Manisha Dawar