On my way to work two days back, I tracked these children, by slowing the car for about ten minutes for over a kilometre. They kept walking together, unaware of what was happening on the road. They looked engaged in conversation.
Friendship had an expression of communication in this body gesture in the way they walked shoulder to shoulder.
The role of human touch!
I kept pondering over this!
A mother receives the baby after he or she is born in to her hands and since then the mother and father are regularly touching the baby! A child grows up with this sense of bodily nearness introduced by the parents from early infancy. A touch is an expression of warmth, tenderness and nearness.
I have watched such warm expressions by mothers while a child is restless and anxious. The gentle voice of affirming love and embracing act of belonging restore the attachment behaviour between parents and children.
I feel that many children grow up now a days missing this as most of their time from even one year is spent before the screen of a TV or a mobile phone!
Parents do not think abut the void this creates in the emotional psyche of an infant or does the child want to return to mother's lap when hurt or sad. He or she would want to return to the screen for consolation!
Ours is a generation who is growing up with a big void- loss of nearness to each other!
I watched these boys discover the sense of nearness and belonging!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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