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December 2022

Learning from Kids

By C. N. Vaze, Chartered Accountant
Reading Time 3 mins
Many people cry nowadays about the degeneration of human values and the disappearance of ethics from human behaviour. I attribute this to the fact that elders have stopped learning from the innocent behaviour of small children. Due to the invasion of electronic and social media; and rat race for one-up-manship, there is no dialogue within the family. Children have so much to share with their parents, but parents have no time and mood to listen to them.

Children’s conversation is not only worth marking but worth taking a message from! Once I visited my friend’s house. His small 5-year kid came running from another room. I stared at him and said, “your nose is your mother’s, and your eyes are your dad’s”. The sweet boy retorted – “And this pant is of my bade-bhaiya (elder brother)”. This was a great lesson in sharing our belongings with brothers, sisters and friends. During the good old days, sharing textbooks with juniors was common. Presently, this system or culture is going away. One reason, perhaps, is that many parents have only one kid!

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