Hello Teenager

 

Happy Teenage...

            The journey from an infant to a kid, from a kid to a teenager and from teenager to a man cannot be distinguished from each preceding stage as one cannot fathom where one ends and what is the point from where the subsequent commences. 

There is no specific age group which  can clearly demarcate these key phases as everyone has its own journey and trajectory of development. The initial ups and downs of life may mature someone a bit early and someone may grow wings late in the life under protected parentage. However this is a circle which mostly humans complete in one's lifetime. That is one of the reason I believe that none should be overprotected so that they develop the healthy wings in time which can help him fly life long. The strength provided during the initial years of parenting can nourish those high flying dreams for a long time, sometimes may be for life long.

        So my kiddo entering teenage today. I remember writing one post long back when Ayush turned five.

        Long time, indeed when you count number of days unless you see kid around and revisit how it was just few days back he learnt to speak, he learnt to get angry, get argumentative, try his hands on piano and those chess moves. Kids grow fast, more than you can measure on a calendar or scale. As parent we are overly cautious when child is approaching teenage, he is attaining puberty, he is asking questions whose straight answer is not "yes" or "no". You have to pause a bit, you have to think, rethink twice and then say, “We’ll discuss in the evening.”  The COVID has taken its toll on kids upbringing with good 2 years making them aloof from the good counsel of friends, those jokes and word play. It had made them mature in their cocoon. 

        No advise it durable and sacrosanct enough which one can give and is applicable life long in all circumstances. Advices are prone to tinkering with space and time conditions. What may be good advice for him today may not be appropriate at 25 or what may hold good today in normal situation, may not be fit enough in a city where he is full of strangers. Somewhere every parent want his kid to be a sage, a family man, an achiever, a caring son. It is a sort of seeking best of all and worst of none. Even if he doesn’t turn out any, we wish him best in life.

        So today, I wish he may get best in life, we are with you Ayush, today and always.                                                        Go get & live your dream.