The two jasmine flowers were also a bud, like the one bud still waiting to bloom in this bunch!
The flower was hidden in the bud till it opened at its own time!
This brought me an imagery of some significance to understand childhood!
In every child by mid childhood we have some knowledge of a child from his or her behaviour, conduct, relational attitude, communication and socialisation. A child gradually unfolds to reveal who he or she is by mid childhood!
By about ten years a child has lived only one eight of his or her life span! A child is still on a formative and expanding journey!
A child is too young to envision his or her journey path and the choices to makes to make life thriving and altruistic!
It is this that needs attention from parents. Parents might have a professional aspiration for the child; do parents envision the child to be a person of worth of value ?
The professional education and personal formation are two different dimensions in the life of a child.
The jasmine flower inherits genetically its white colour, petal pattern, fragrance, nectar production and its duration of life. It is the epigenetic of soil conditions, humidity, sunlight and protection from pests that make the flower to be vibrant.
Do parents consider the epigenetic around a child during his or her formative years! The epigenetic is a confluence of intimacy with parents, cordial communication, play and conversation to promote interaction, narrating and reading stories and biographies to add substrate to their thinking, involvement in household responsibilities to experience of the feeling of being able and valued, prayer and habit of reading the Scripturee.... Or are children left to be formed through their prolonged exposure to the media of mobile phone or TV or internet!
The professional education and personal formation are two different streams of childhood development!
The personal formation is in the domain of parents largely!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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