Responsibility: Key to Adulthood
One of the perks of living in our locality is that one gets to see that different kids have different journeys into adulthood. However, the same cannot be said for parents.
Majority of them take stress for the good performance of their kids. This is not surprising.
Considering that the education provided by most schools is similar, it is difficult to neglect therole of parents in the overall development of kids.
Therefore it is important to explore the role or the degree to which the parents are responsible for the hardships that kids are going to face and the rewards that they will get. I believe that there exists a transition after which kids start taking responsibility of their actions and the role of parents becomes like facilitators. This transition is the true dawn of adulthood.
Recently, I had a very interesting conversation with a young man in our neighbourhood. I would like to share this with all of you. Before hand I must say that I found the whole episode very interesting, and mentally congratulated both the parents and the teachers of this boy. Clearly he had started to take responsibility for himself.
So, this boy was telling me how online classes were a challenge for him during the COVID time. A major side-effect was that his writing skills were not up to the mark as he would sometimes not do written work at regular intervals of time. Further, the feedback from teachers though not entirely absent, was not as effective as offline classes.
Now he was in Class 10th, and was really working hard. He needed to understand new concepts and improve his written work. I got really impressed on his one line.
“Aunty I am trying a lot to improve, my mom has really helped me a lot in this.”
This statement is a true rarity in kids his age. He acknowledged that improving himself was his responsibility, and the parent was trying hard to facilitate him.
Shabash Beta!
I do not know what marks he would get in his board exam, but for me he passed with flying colours.
by Rakhi Hemani (9811233820)
