Child care in the United States !

Reports say that United States of America has the highest figures in obesity. It’s apparent that Americans don’t see it as a threat and as a result are not willing to change their life style at all. The outcome can be perilous; perhaps it has already reached to the point where people should start thinking about it seriously.

There are numerous reasons for it, for example eating habit, lack of exercise, living style etc are the major reasons. All the above reasons are justifiable .Nnnn --Don’t think I am digressing, just making my point.

Eating habit is random, and how can it not be, food here is so cheap and so tempting that it’s hard to resist. It’s a travesty that, there are countries where people are dying because of hunger and poverty and then it is the U.S.; where people are suffering because of the abundance of food.

For instance, consider the factor of life style. Kids learn what ever they see and experience since they are toddlers. I am amazed and want to laugh my heart out when I see a 2-3 year old kid getting dragged in the stroller. What is that?

Moms and Dads please let them walk on their two tiny feet, and let them experience how good it feels to walk, to get tired and not to get obese in future.

It’s one of the usual sites in the malls, to see grown up kids in the stroller. They will be given a cup of smoothie or some ice cream to suck upon, and then dragged every where.

No doubts, kids can get tired after walking for a long time, but that is O.K. if they can’t walk now when will they walk after all, after getting old? Because as soon as they will be 16 years old they wont get a chance to keep their feet on the ground, as some how all of them will have a car. It is not like us where transportation was always restricted to Autos, rickshaws and bus. Driving a car at the age of 16 was beyond imagination unless our parents are Tata-Birla.

Like wise, when we grow a little and make mistakes, we are handled differently. If you guys don’t remember our days as kids growing up in India, allow me take you all to the flash back. When it is time to study, no matter what, grudgingly or ungrudgingly you have to sit and study. There was no excuse. And if you digress from that routine, hey you are in a big trouble. And we knew that, that is why I never heard of the disease called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) when I was in India.There is no kid in the world who likes to study by himself and will always make excuses not to study.This simple concept is justified by this ADD in the U.S. :) :)

In our country this is how it works:-

“Pappu padhai karo”,nahee padhega, lo ek Thappar Khaoo”

And that was the medicine, pappu will start studying.And pappu can't afford having OCD ever in his life.

On the streets,or any where I never see kids playing.Yes some times I see kids playing in the park but that is a rare site.Most of them indulge in video games.That time is not far when you will hear that teachers are hired to teach kids how to play video games in perfection.How to move thumbs and arms to score better.I am amazed.I just cant take this concept of upbringing kids.

I am not making fun of it, but some times our Indian system works well with these kinds of Kids. People hire nanny to keep them on track (you might have watched the T.V show SUPPER NANNY).

Have you also noticed any such kind of irritating parental care ?

Any way there are many more parental love sprees, which I guess are spoiling these kids rotten from a very early age. I don’t have any intention to offend any one and if by any chance I have done, I would apologize for that. But my suggestion is to let kids grow like a kid, not like robots. Because all these un-necessary cares are only exacerbating their anger, their unwillingness to do some thing, their indulgence in bad habits etc-etc.