When Anna and and I left for home at 4.45 pm yesterday we were delighted that it was dry and the blue sky was reflected on the water surface in the flooded paddy fields. In less than twenty minutes of our journey, the sky became dark and the second picture of another paddy field flooded with water with the overcast sky tells it all, about what happened immediately after this.
In a short time the sunshine was overshadowed with almost darkness!
It is this story that I hear form many families each day. A family with their nineteen months old child who live overseas came back for a revisit yesterday. From the first time they visited us when the baby was four months, although has developed and overcome some challenges, it is far from what the parents were looking forward to!
The joy of parenting and childhood get overshadowed by darkness of distress, grief, and challenges, that it is a burden which many families carry with them, when their child is developmentally challenged!
Although we have made some efforts to make our department family friendly, we still feel that what we do is only elementary to encourage and support families.
I wish we have had better resources to reach out to parents to stay as their companions!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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