I have grumped and made faces when there was an unruly child in the vicinity. And I have most intelligently even made a comment or two as how I will be a strict mother, whenever that day comes and how parents don’t put enough effort to straighten their wards. So here I am after ten years of saying what I did earlier and I am eating my words right back where it came from.
So how many of us still frown when a child cries in a movie
theatre or on a flight, how many times have we fought the urge of beating something
black and blue when have been forced to watch an annoying sounding cartoon on
telly while we could have clearly watched a sensible movie or a scoring point
of a sport. Yes we all have been there and done that. And here I am now a
mother, not understanding what the fuss was about.
Coming back to the blog’s header. In fact yes someone did
say that to me and I can sure as hell tell you it wasn’t what you call it a
pleasant experience. Here we are on a weekend, clearly physically tired of the
weekday activities and mentally exhausted with all the homework that comes back
on a Friday. So Saturday is a celebration, in joy of making it through another
week, tackling another challenge with success.
As a reward to our excellent performance of the week, a fine
dine family dinner is what was decided as the winners trophy. We are a dash
disappointed to know we have to wait for the table at the restaurant but then
we were there already so changing the plan now was out of the window. We get a
table after a decade long wait of 30 min, considering kids decided to play
pee-ka-boo around the restaurant. Upon being seated as well, the game did not
end. Though the kids were just playing among themselves and did not break
anything or cause anyone any physical harm, this fine looking lady who looked
no more than in her mid twenties and was accompanied by two other friends
looked at me sternly and almost rudely says to me, “Can you please mind your
child?”
I felt a jab of embarrassment and even felt a lil bad for
her but then I thought, hey kids are supposed to be like that. How can you deny
kids the very innocence and I don’t care attitude they are born with. I can
understand that a stupid crying kid must have caused ruckus and spoilt your
precious moment, but of course one can have a big heart, smile and let it go. I
think we are losing are patience about small things and we levy our impatience
on anything that we possibly can.
So next time you see a “naughty” child, the one who is loud
enough for the entire place to grab attention, the one that broke a plate, the
one who enthusiastically bored you with all the stories in their kitty…please
sit back for a moment and think that it isn’t easy for them to be adults as
yet. Fake smiles; adjust their attitude to suit social requirements and forge a
personality that everyone admires is not how they function.
There’s a reason they are kids, so pure and untouched by the
bewilderness around them. So miss whoever you were and my reply to the number
of whoever’s I am yet to have the pleasure to meet, the answer is No I do not
know how to adulterate minds so pure. I can teach them to respect people, to
appreciate nature, good values but I cannot tell them not to behave like kids.
They will be adults when they are ready to be, no sooner not later.
