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Lessons From Little Ones – 2


Part of series of articles published in IMAX (monthly journal of IMA Rajkot) based on real life incidents-2016

 (As adults,  we are always eager to teach children  but often the little ones give us beautiful lessons in unexpected ways……Sharing here a series of such incidents mostly with my own children and few from other kids as well. They have created long lasting imprints on my memory.)  

 

Pair of “chappals”

Once I was reading aloud a book of Berenstain   Bear Series to my kids. The series is a set of wonderful books involving a bear family.  It consists of Mamma bear, Papa bear, Brother Bear, Sister Bear and Honey bear.  They teach about day to day life events, relations, virtues, manners, coping skills and much more to children in a very illustrative and amusing way. Children get to fall in love and identify themselves with the bear family.

This time the story revolved around the explanation of marriage and family.  In the book, the Papa bear was showing his kids the photo album of his marriage. He was explaining them about the wedding ceremony.  The narration described the newly married couple being blessed with good wishes and gifts.

“What is the meaning of ’couple’?” – asked my younger one.

Trying for an elaborate example, I replied, “See, before marriage, I lived with my parents and your father too lived at his home with his parents.  After a certain age, our parents arranged a meeting and introduced us to each other. We accepted the proposal and approved for the marriage. Since then we are a “couple” means a pair of husband and wife, living together and sharing each other’s joy and sorrow.”

Just as I thought of asking whether the explanation was clear enough, the younger one exclaimed, ‘Ok, so couple is just like chappal, both exist as a pair!”

What can be a better simile!?  On a deeper thought, isn’t a couple like chappal? Both begin the life anew, fresh and fine, live together hand in hand and get worn and torn together. Existence of one is meaningless without the other.

And now our family and friends who know the anecdote, often replace the word ‘couple’ with ‘chappal’ in lighter notes.

 

Dr. Neema Sitapara

MD (Ped), PGDip. (Adolescent Pediatrics)