Parenting

 ‘Dusserra’ was just round the corner, Halloween tricked us by, ‘Diwali’ is at a stone’s throw away and then, Thanksgiving would march by. It is always overwhelming to celebrate so many festivals in the US. My kids enjoy all the festivals as much as I did when I was a kid. Enjoying Thanksgiving and Christmas with friends is a very common sight in the US.

Most Children analysis that I do is of kids who are mostly from pretty well to do families. I have noticed that most of them have this one trait in common. I am not saying all but most lack the ability to maintain. This has the following manifestations

* Take things for granted
* Don't value the cost of things
* Throw away things after using it once - eg. CD's will be w/o covers etc

“A relationship is like a china cup, once broken can be mended, but a crack is always there.”
I read this when I was a teenager, an age when you collect quotes and poems, with a feeling of butterflies in your stomach. I still remember it like yesterday because it didn’t make sense to me then, but it does now.
 

It is so difficult at times to tell our kids about India’s culture in one breathe, as it is so vast! Being from a conservative country as India, it is all the more difficult to get used to the ways and means of life in the US. I remember when my kid was stepping into the middle school and she had just learnt about ‘FLASH’ in 5th grade.