My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

People say that your likes and dislikes change with age and time. May be some of them are so close to your heart that they never change. One of the likes or you can say a dream of mine to carry my baby on my back never changed. I know it sounds ridiculous but this is true. I remember when I was a teenager, a tribal woman used to come to our house to help my mother in household work. She had a daughter, which she would tie on her back and do all the work. She would come once in the morning and again in the evening. I would wait for her to come in the evening, so that I can play with her daughter and tie her on my back as her mother did. In the morning, I would easily miss the school and play with her. But I knew that is not going to happen so I never insisted. In the evening, I would force that tribal woman to tie her daughter on my back the way she ties her daughter on her back. She would tie her daughter on my back with a long cloth. At that time there was no fancy sling like...

Looking at my daughter now, I remember my childhood, growing up in a small town. Things were so different than now. Now a days kids do not get out of their house to play. Firstly, they are too hung up with their studies, homework and other school activities and secondly even if they have time they would rather play video games, watch T.V, or play with other gadgets. There is no physical activity at all. In the U.S, things are even worse. Here very rarely I see kids outside their houses. Some times, I wonder if kids live in the U.S. Nevertheless, I have decided that once when, my daughter grows up I will try to build a taste of physical activity and playing in her, if I can. When I was growing up, we used to play so many outdoors games .Some were very strenuous and some of them were just leisurely but it had to be out side the home. There was one game called “haddi-dappa”.As the name (“haddi” means bones) is so was the game. You have to have a very strong bone to play. Th...