Dear all...IMPORTANT FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS...
What is the first and the foremost thing that we have to teach our children?
ADAPTABILITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!….this is the first and foremost thing that we have to teach our children!!!
Are we teaching them?
Can they eat any food, any preparation that is available?
...can they live without their parents or siblings or close friends or relatives?
...can they make their new friends at their place of living easily and quickly?
...can they live in a room/house and amidst people of all type of languages, caste, religion, region, race, intelligence, interests, skills, culture, belief systems, value systems, social rules and regulations, laws of the land (legal systems)?
...can they live in any climate?...can the live in any environment?
...can they live without anything that they like?
...can they live without even the basic items like clean and nutritious food, clean water, clean air, protective clothing, electric supply, gas, till they get these?
...can he live with people of any type of personality traits?...can he live without money?...can he earn his own money?...can he travel to any part of the world alone and live there?...can he meet any person of any language at any part of earth and converse and live with him/her?
This is the need of the hour!!...Children with such capabilities only can survive in the years to come!!...
“Regional Children” may be able to exist or survive…but they may not be able to live with peace, good health and contentment!!!...only “Global Children” with above capabilities can live on this earth…
Why did we give birth to children?...for our time pass, enjoyment, fun in giving birth and rearing them?...for staying with us and looking after us during old age?....if the answer is YES, then all animals are better than us and they seem to be knowing about how to rear offsprings.
So, let us stop putting them only in boys schools or girls schools or schools of a particular religion or caste or region or language or medium of instruction. Let us stop telling them to read only a particular language or be friends with people of a particular language or caste or religion.
What is happening now?...
parents give love and affection for the happiness and pleasure they get while giving that to children...especially these mothers!!!...are they bothered about their employability, livability, co-existability??? (hihihi...don't bother about perfect grammer etc...this is e era english!!)
Many students are not able to remain away from parents, siblings, relatives, make their own food, wash their own clothes, adapt to people from other regions, religions, caste, food, climate etc..
They fail in exams…low attendance…leave schools, colleges and jobs…commit suicide…land up in doing crimes…They divorce and break marriages…break friendships, leave relatives etc…low adaptability…low resilience…low self-concept…big failures in life inspite of having big wealth or intelligence or family or social support etc…
Right from childhood we run around, take all pains and get admission, spend sleepless nights to educate them well, loose our peace-happiness and health for their education, do lots of sacrifice in our life for them, send them by private vehicle etc so that they don’t get tired and lose time, and finally the student also gets 200 out of 200 in all subjects…becomes topper and what not…but finally due to lack of ADAPTABILITY and related issues he fails to live a college, organizational, family, social and personal life!!!
Therefore, let us…
1. Tell them to get proficiency in reading, writing and speaking of as many global languages as possible…some are English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French, german…
2. Admit them in schools were children of all types of religion, region, caste, cultures, languages, countries, sexes are studying.
3. Let them go around the country and world for ‘learning’ of cultures, value systems etc by living with people of different origins. Admit them in schools which do these.
4. Let them get exposed to all sorts of works for few days like agriculture, skill related works like carpentry, smithy, etc,
5. Let them learn all sorts of art forms
6. Let them make their own food, wash their own clothes, clean their own things which they made them dirty (e.g room, utensils etc)
7. Let them read holy books of all religions
8. Subject them to live in all types of landscapes like, islands, forests, deserts, hills, mountains, pleatue, plains, sea, extreme climate conditions (high cold, high temperatures, high humidity, heavy rains) etc for few days with minimal support and maximum of their own efforts
9. Let them do social service by teaching other children, poor students, orphans, weak students…help patients in hospitals…help aged people in old age homes…help animals in farms…
10. Making them to understand that CHANGE is the only thing that does not change with people, organisations, way of living, cultures etc. Adapting to changes quickly is the solution for successful, peaceful and a contented living. THERE IS NOTHING WHICH DOES NOT CHANGE ON EARTH. They need to understand this and learn adapting.
11. There are many such things…but even if we do a part of these I think it should suffice…
All these will not only make them adaptable but also increase their emotional and spiritual intelligence…
1. They will be able to take decisions in any life situation
2. They will be able to live happily and healthily with contentment and success with any one and at any place.
3. They will be responsible children for their parents
4. They will know value of time, help, energy, life, living, food, water, air, money, wealth, people, relationships, love and affection, teacher, schools, colleges, parents, siblings, friends....wofffffff...still more...
5. They will not only become best in their home, organizations, society and also become noble and best human beings.
6. They will live happily, with great physical-mental-social wellbeing, with contentment, with peace and of course, success will come and fall on their feet.
7. This is what I call as Nature is the God, and it teaches all lessons of life and living
8. They will be able to decide their destiny, and that decision will be better than what their parents can take for them.
9. There will be no problems in their married life, because they know how to adapt to people and situations and the value of what and whom they have in their life.
10. Their children will become the best human beings as they know how to rear children
11. Their resilience, self concept, self esteem, self confidence etc etc will all be high
12. They will have a rock strong and flexible mind, will make good families, society and country.
Last, but not the least, CHILDREN DO NOT LISTEN, THEY OBSERVE AND FOLLOW PARENTS!!!...SO LET US WALK AND SHOW THE WAY FOR THEM
So, the crux of this post is MAKING CHILDREN ‘ADAPTABLE’ IS WHAT IS CALLED REARING!!!...
more such posts will follow…
peacefully yours...rams...