cutely ugly lovely monsters:)

andaaz apne dekhte hain aaine mein wo..

aur ye bhi dekhte hain koi dekhta na ho...

well..one of my favourite ghazals sung by my favourite ghazal maestro Ghulam ali ...mersmerises...intoxicates ..serenades...just takes you into a totally different world....people shower praises for pankaj udhas,,,,jagjit singh....but all i can say is that once you have tasted ghulam alis voice..rest all voices are like water after wine:)

anyways...what i wanted to write today was about something that everyone of us has gone through when we were kids....

i was returning from office today and again i encountered the naughty kids of my building...but today before they could call me aunty one of the kids' mom came running behind him and slapped him saying" why do you always forget to wear your slippers while going out to play?"...and i was dumbfounded ...i mean is that reason enough to slap a kid?..even motherly concern cannot justify hitting a kid for such silly reason...

scaring kids for everything..punishing them for all their mischiefs...has never been my idea of the childhood i shall be giving my kids..that is something i have learnt from my mom..she has never scolded or scared me for innocent mistakes like breaking a vase..spoiling my uniform...or not wearing slippers!...

i agree kids need to be disciplined and for that parents need to be strict but then parents also need to learn to differentiate between really grave situations and silly innocent childhood mistakes...we need to remember the kid will never be of this age again..let him make mischiefs..let him play pranks..let him wet the bed...let him be....

even if we adults wish to we can never do what these kids do!....so let them be in their own world...just guide them lovingly...caress them when they fall down and dirty their clothes..there is a whole life ahead to wear clean ironed clothes..for now let them dirty their clothes by jumping in puddles and playing with frogs:):)

PS: this doesnt mean i am never gonna thrash my kids because i know they are going to be monsters of the highest degree with genes from me:)