Single Parent Family

My elder girls is in Std 2. Her school follows the ICSE Board. They have got loads to study and most of the time ,we moms have to study first and then teach them. They have a chapter in Social Studies on family. I don't know how it was a few years ago, but now they have introduced a new kind of Family in the book due to the changing trend in the world. They need to learn about small family,large family, Joint family and "Single Parent family". When we sat down to study the chapter she asks me what is single parent family tho its clearly mentioned that its a family which has only one parent.

She tells :" Our family become Single parent family when DAd goes to Kerala with G(my yunger girl) for a few days, right?" We all smiled listening to her idea. She thinks the Single parent family is just a temporary situation in Life. At this age Kids r really curious about anything and everything. They won't be able to understand certain things inspite of explaining. But in order to satisfy her curiousity, gave her many examples. One example we gave is, when a parent passes away and so on. She felt sad when i mentioned it. She asks me"Will u die?". Then I had to explain that . She's got an idea by now,i guess. Sometimes it just so exhausting answering so many questions. I really Thank the Lord that there r 2 parents here.

Reality Show "Bites"

Switch on the TV these days and the channels r flooded with Reality Shows.The path to fame doesn't seem much hard as there r plenty of Reality Shows. Last week witnessed a 16 year old Kolkata child named Shinjini Sengupta being criticised for her performance on stage in a Reality Show named "Dhoom Mache Le". The end result of which the child became paralysed(lost her movement and Voice). I don't understand what the girls fault was! Her performance being a child was commendable, instead she was being judged as if it was a do or die situation. My heart really goes out for that pretty girl.

She would have worked really hard to reach that stage of the show. Its unbeleivable that kids these days go through lot of stress. The price of fame and money can be really stressful on a child. As parents, we should prepare our child mentally as well. Its not an easy world out there. People all around r ready to judge and snap at silly excuses. The mindset of 16 year old is much more different from that of a 25 or 30 year old. A child needs to treated as a child. People judging such shows or conducting such shows should make a child feel as a child. I feel there shudn't be Reality Shows for children. Kids need to make bigger decisions and compromises than an adult. Lets pray that 16 year old Shinjini recovers soon.