Thursday, May 20, 2010

Papa's gone to buy sweets

Hey peeps, am working for children at my new office. For me, it’s really interesting to work with them. Here in our society family possess a great role in converting the child to a responsible citizen. They keep the authority to take decisions for him even in his 20's. One thing I find really difficult is that in our country parents make up stories all the time to Children. So, for example, Ebin is looking for his Papa, when he's away on a business trip. Rather than say he's working and he'll be back later, the family say 'Papa's gone to buy sweets (Mittaayi/paappam)'. Why not just tell him the truth? I don't like because, apart from not being true, and that Ebin expects his papa to reappear - with sweets (are sweets really better than Papa anyway?!)- it is treating kids as if they're stupid. Which they're not.

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