Little Sparrows Loved a Lot....!!!!

Have your child never seen a bird's nice nest yet ?
Haven't they seen those little cute eggs ?
And have you shown them their innocent featherless babes,always with crying opened mouth....?

If not, such moments may be the greatest  surprise gift that you are giving your child.
( Because those chicks and your child are unavoidable parts of  the virgin nature. But you are not, as you are a greedy human only, part of the present business eyed global love !!! )

I was waiting eagerly to show her a nest. Because I was a brutal 'bird- man' in my childhood days. Even Dr.Salim Ali, the bird-man of India wouldn't have loved but 'destroyed' so many bird's homes in his early days !!!
It was a great surprise for us (the so called nature lovers of our staff room) that a nice looking "Red whiskered Bulbul" again came(the second time) this year for their nesting. The bushy fat leafy plant in front of the school building was proper for them to make a home.

After one week we found two little violet eggs peeping through the leaves.
I switched on my mobile camera.
She (my child) was so happy seeing the photos of those ripe Jambul-like eggs.

After some days I showed her the photos of the featherless chicks with opened bills,waiting  for their mother coming with food.

She demanded me to show her those baby birds.

I agreed.But it was 14 kms away from home.

But the next day I found the nest empty.

Those babes would have been taken by some naughty primary school boys.

In my childhood days I also have stolen many bird babes from their mothers (of bulbuls,house sparrows,hill mynas and anonymous rare birds).I have given them more than enough food. But no one survived.

(On this March 20,the international day to love and think of the fast disappearing house sparrows, I apologize to the mother nature.)  

Nothing can  replace a mother,even the whole world !!!!      

Somnath Temple; The Power of Re-construction !!!!

She calls the high school section of her kindergarten as 'Janaganamana school' !!!
Because there they sing the national anthem every evening.

She loves the cute senior girls studying in the janaganamana school !!!
Because they are always sympathetic to her,help her to get into the school bus, love her and always caring of her. She is the smallest passenger of that yellow school bus, sitting usually on somebody's laps.

One day she asked me about 'Punjab,Sindh,Gujarat,Marata'.

I loved her question. Because it was a great opportunity for me to introduce her the variety of north India. As an Indian,she would love the 'rich and varied heritage' of  India as the whole Americans or the great Israelis  proud of their country.

We traversed through the images of great Punjab,the five rivers,Indus valley civilization,the golden temple, the wheat fields......!!
She remarked that all the people of Punjab looked like Manmohan Singh.
I didn't remark that now Sindh belongs to Pakistan,as the stories of division are nothing but nonsense for children.( Let the Sindh remains there,till the ancient India completely rejoins to a new nation 'Indus valley' )
She loved the shape of Gujarat.
A rare photograph of the remains of Somnath temple of Gujarat attracted her.It was a great temple destroyed by Muhammed Ghazny, a Persian 'barbarian' in the 11 th century. But it was a new knowledge that it had been destroyed and reconstructed many times !!
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After a fifteen minutes she came back,
"look here, I made the chomanathu temple."

Yes, she has constructed something using her building blocks !!
It appeared to have a 'distant similarity' with  the great Somnath temple !!But the 'greatest design' expected from a four year old one.

"The power of re-construction is stronger than the power destruction"
Yes, as her father and a story teller I am motivated to tell her more about her India. Her India is a magic pot filled with its colourful and unique history. She has to reveal more than discovered yet !!

ENTER THE GREAT CIVILIZATION !!!

An Under-aged Archaeologist Explores My Past !!!

Every child is an archaeologist...!
They observe every piece of 'ancient materials' kept in their home...!!
Collects them and  classify them scientifically...!!!
Study them, think of them and recognise them totally....!!!!

Every father is afraid of them....!
He has a hidden personality too...!!
Afraid of such materials, if related with his bloody youth...!!
We can't even guess, what those holy remains contain...!!!
( It can be a piece of blurred colourless paper sheet carrying his lost lovers' heart beats or a bluish inland letter card on his lost years or even a simple photograph of her.If the child's mother gets it...!!!? )

Two months ago my child retrieved (from my old dusty text books) a caricature of my language teacher, drawn by myself  twenty years ago !!
( I confess that once I had traced many teen-aged cuties and beauties too !! If she finds it all ! )

I warned her strictly against her searches and frightened her showing the presence of big black cockroaches in the store.

Yesterday she came, but carrying a still model made of  card board with the corners and edges designed by the handicrafts of senior cockroaches residing in the store room.

And I recalled that I was the architect of that old 'sculpture'. It looked like the remains of  medieval Hindu temples partially destroyed by  Persian attackers.

She started questioning as usual ;
What it is ?
"Forgive me.It is an old model of our present home,made by your father,without your permission,before this home was constructed 12 years ago".
(She convinced it herself, stared on it a long time, compared with the positions and projections of the present building, started her questioning on each door,windows and even the beams.)

I was totally weak on her non-stop quizzing lasted for half an hour and cursed myself on making such things or for keeping it for years. Most of her questions were about the interior of a room on the first floor, whose roofs were lost somewhere. I could not answer her queries on the position of the bathrooms or the absence of ceiling fans as their interiors were not designed. But the lost roof revealed it all.
A roofless home is a horrible dream for every human !!

At last I promised to make her an architect in future so that she can reconstruct it as she likes !!
Will this silly looking 'archaeologist' turn into a good architect ?       

My Tenth Blog, but Without Followers !!

"The first step towards solving a problem is to begin it" somebody wrote somewhere....

But the problems have just begun !!!

It has been more than one month since I started blogging. I am a special blogger....
0 comments yet!!
No followers at all..!!!!!
Nearly 400 page views !!!
I chose the subject ' child ' as I am interested in child education and there is a child I have to follow....but nobody follows me !!

There are many blogs on parenting, but most are run by cute moms....!!!!!!!!!!

Most of the fathers do not like parenting blogs !!!!!

I believe it is simply because they have no right to write and they admire the role of mothers...

Then why should I... ??

( I am sure that her mother does everything for her and I am only a sight viewer or night watcher in 'caring' a child !!! )

Now, since last two months I do not spend much time with my child as I am interested more in studying and watching other blogs. Then how can I find clues and raw materials for my next blogs....?

My child and my wife get irritated on my behavioral changes....!!!?

Should I continue writing ?????( I am in between the sea and the devil )
I am suspending the blog, till I get a correct answer.....I decided.

"Patience is a new blogger's symptom...
Hard working is his success secret...". they say.

'Well begun is half done'.......!!!   Have I begun well ?

Though people hates or underestimates my language style, I have to continue....
Because I am a 'mathematics' teacher by profession, where language fails on numbers....
This is my tenth blog....( Indians introduced the decimal system... ?)
Zero followers....( Indians invented zero... !!)
My India is different from the rest of the world .....so I would continue to win those who ignored me !!!

Thanking everyone visited me, though the page views were random. 
  

Crosswords for Crossing the World

Recalling our childhood days,most of us may have funny experiences with crosswords. How many encyclopedias and dictionaries have been referred by us for getting a single suitable word ! We rubbed and scratched again and again !! All times we missed the prizes awarded by our children's magazines !! Yet we were waiting for the next crosswords !!!Here I remember many faces including the loving face of my catechism teacher of the fourth standard, who helped me  to write ' video' on a crossword instead of I am writing ' radio', when videos were not familiar to our villages.


Yesterday I myself prepared a simple crossword as a part of playing with her! She enjoyed filling it and 'painted' my drawings too.

I had no idea that a kindergarten child, who has just started to read and write the alphabets will love  crosswords. But she loved it, tried to fill it up curiously just looking at the pictures and telling vaguely ; b-for  ball, 'a' is written here...help me to fill...am I to write downwards now... A crossword is a powerful  equipment for beginning kids.

This game has enough internal motive to fill even a simple child with joy,enthusiasm and the spirit of a normal game, since most of the newly invented games are for making the children abnormal !!  !!!  !!!! 

A game with words,with an aim to conquer the world. That is why everybody likes crosswords. It is a measure of their word power as well as their knowledge curve. It is programmed with a two dimensional system of  applying knowledge and at the same time achieving it. Many brilliant people around the globe burns their brains everyday to complete successfully complicated crosswords !!

Dear dads and moms,

1. It is a game,where gambling always fails. So,it has a moral value.
2. Children always follow their parents or elder ones, quenching for the answers or clues. It has a social value too.
3. More over it has the well known intellectual value.

Help your child to follow crosswords from their initial stages.See how much he/she is interested in using and connecting the alphabets he has just learned.  Many daily crossword problems available on internet too,suitable for the tastes of  our naughty kids.

Monkey,Crocodile and the Colourful Strawberries

I don't actually remember, when we started to tell her the evergreen story of  monkey and crocodile. She loved the story very much and it is wonderful that every child likes this story than most other Panchatantra  stories.Their hero may be the brave monkey, foolish and innocent crocodile or...?!! She demanded the story everyday before going to sleep.

At last,but the story led her to make there a 'calamity'! She wanted to have the reddish beautiful athi fruits (fig fruits). I have seen many times her eyes glittering and face expanding when I describe the sweet 'athi fruits'. The image of those fruits were very strong in her little mind. The crocodile's greedy wife says ; "If athi fruits are so sweet, how sweet will be the heart of the monkey, who eats it everyday".

She cried, wept and even became angry on the matter of getting fruits. Even all our neighbors knew why my child was crying so loudly.

It was not easy to get some such rare wild fruits. But one day there appeared some reddish beautiful fruits in the fruit stall. They were strawberries from Munnar hills.
At once a 'false idea' rose in my mind..!


I came home with a pack of it and introduced her them as one 'similar' to athi fruits. She became so excited and started to bite those nice looking fruits.
Her face paled. Those fruits were not at all tasty as they appeared.

I have learnt, how classical conditioning affects child behavior. But the theory makes a sense when it comes to real practical situations. Sometimes such an experience is panic too !!

This incident (or an accident) happened last year. She 'forgot' asking her favourite story again.

Two days ago she saw a wall paper of monkey,crocodile and athi fruits.
She reacted; Those fruits are not so tasty.

I am guilty on my joking .......Her hero was those fruits ?? She was the monkey ??
Now I am that cruel and foolish crocodile too !!
    

Mobiles Cry in Childish Tunes !!!

" Klee, klee, kloo, kloo....where is the sound from ?  Suresh turned back. A myna was sitting on the ground...."                               
(From my textbook, std: 2B, year:1980)


Long after those sweet decades of natural music, now I am living in a dramatic background of artificial sounds,noisy ring tunes and meaningless thoughts. I confess myself,  I am also totally addicted to electronic media!! If  I am so,I have no right to blame a child. But I was totally disturbed on her love to mobile phones.

It has been only six or seven years,since mobile phones started their cracking sounds in our lonely villages. Rapidly their 'ranges' increased. Now mobiles are not rare things. Even every beggar and burglar of the country ( including myself..haha!!) owns it. India is growing as a powerful country,they say, including in  its cellphone markets !!

But slowly most people recognise that this nice looking equipment is as harmful as a nuclear reactor, because of  its colourless and odorless radiations. If it is harmful, how it affects our innocent children ?

There are many studies and contradictory reports on the issue,I have read, favorable to both parties. Somebody says that it affects brain tissues and some reports say not. So it is safer to keep our 'thin-skulled' children away from using mobile phones. The don'ts are more than enough...!!

• Don't allow our little ones to talk on mobiles for more than a  few seconds.
• Keep them away from mobile phone games. It may affect their eye sight.
• Don't allow them to use head phones. It may affect their hearings.

But now a days mobiles are little computers and we cannot prevent them totally and cannot stop the 'future citizen' from using it.

What can we do when a little child quarrels for getting our mobile phones? Hoo.. At last I discovered and my discovery is as important as the Amundsen's discovery of Antarctica. Can you guess...?

Allow her to take photographs using mobile cams !!

 I think it is a comparatively harmless activity and motivating too. Though you are not interested in my discovery, I am very much interested in the photos taken by my child and she is interested in focusing more and more photos...!! Her photo album is to be published soon in Facebook...!!!