While visiting a mountain range, the landscape brought an exciting sight to behold.
From seeing at the distance scene, when I turned to look little beyond, a colourful tree in brown shades caught my attention.
When I looked closer to where I was standing, I spotted two spiders resting on a flowering stem.
From the distant to the near is a journey towards being present to the immediate situation.
During the electioneering a national leader repeats his dream of seeing India as the largest economy in the world; now it is nearing to be the third.
The down side of this dreamy pursuit is that millions of youth are not employed in India and this is causing distress.
I know of families who spend their years toiling ambitiously for the financial security of their children, but not available to be a companion to them in their growing up years. The pre-school children have often found the third parent- the visual media to occupy themselves.
I know of a father who turns to his four years old son to help him to access the u-tube site that he wants to find.
I grieve over this paradox- parents think of the future of the children, while children need their parents to be near to them to accompany them in their social and emotional journey.
A panorama from the mountain top is a desirable experience; what is of contemporary value is focussed attention to the immediate context of the growing needs of children.
I almost missed spotting the tiny spiders; the landscape captured me.
Let me say to young parents. What you are not or cannot be to your children during their pre-school years, make parenting incomplete and leave children in a void without intimate relationships. essential to their personal formation !
I heard one parent say recently, about their pre-teenage daughter: 'We do not know our daughter enough. Is it because we left her with her grandparents from the age of 2 years till 12 years'?
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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