Me: Hello dear! *smiling and waving*
3 year old: *pompously ogles and walks away with oodles of disrespect*
Me: Don't go there, your dad has gone that side *signalling to my left*
3 year old: Turns around *pompously ogles and walks away with oodles of disrespect*
Just after the kid left I was led to think how children are no more synonymous to being sweet, inoffensive or adorable. The world has changed in umpteen ways and from what I've noticed, it has only become a non-livable surrounding as opposed to an ideal way to live as the technologists and bureaucrats call it. I still believe even amidst all the glamour and opulence, people haven't figured the right way to live their lives. Be it kids, toddlers, teenagers, adults and the elderly lot, everyone is in a league of their own. Morals and principles are self created with little or no restriction to what the mind and body wants. There is no compliance to the Almighty or the good inner voice whatsoever.
I know nothing much about parenting or how to bring up a child, but what I know is 'a child is a manifestation of his/her parents in every way'. I see kids who are less than 10 years behaving like pros in whatever they do despite having an understanding of um... uh.. close to nothing! Its good to be confident and go about putting your thoughts into action, but with humility. Its like making dough without adding water to the flour. You know what to do, but you don't know enough. Its a squander.
I didn't choose to write on this topic to give advise or ridicule on parenting. I am surprised by how kids behave in a certain undisciplined, misbehaving and ill-mannered way. My care rests with the thought what will become of these children when they become adults?