Challenging...

Parenting is both difficult and scary job...
Scary especially when it comes to children's health...
Anvita has fever since last week and it's so hard to see her being so low and inactive- that too on her first birthday...
When she was fit and fine, i wanted her to sit for some time at some place so that i could relax....
But now,that she sits at one place and sleeps more than usual it's even more hard to see her this way...
Both ways parents are being tested...

Teach and Learn

Having studied psychology i thought i knew everything about children and how to modify their behaviour...
But now i realize i need to learn a lot while am trying to handle my own child...
I always try to teach in my own way because teaching in the right way from the beginning would be better than changing it later (that's what i had studied)...
But meanwhile, i realized i can't make her do so always...
Sometimes i need to go her way and try learning her way of doing things so that she will slowly follow me...
Now i know i shouldn't push her too hard while dealing with her...

Everyday i crib that she doesn't eat properly...
But a sudden insight creeped my mind-"when we like variety in our food why can't she have it"...
Of course eating the same food types everyday bored her...
So now, i change her menu everyday...

While i worked at the special school i held the parents responsible for all their children's misbehaviour...
But now i know how easy it is to overlook your child's misbehaviour and consider it as right as you love you child so much...
How easily children find out these things from their parents and blackmail them...
In the course of time it's difficult to judge who is teaching whom- whether you are teaching your child or the child teaching you...

Good and Bad...

Good- Eating leftover cerelac...
Bad- Drinking leftover milk...

Good- Watching her do all the pranks...
Bad- Cleaning it up...

Good- .Happiness of watching her smile and play...
Bad- Frustration that comes in when she cries...

Good- Make her watch TV when i have loads of work to finish...
Bad- Turning off the TV myself(when i have my favourite programme) to avoid her becoming addicted to it...

Good- Taking her for walk to make her watch and laugh at the kids play...
Bad- Backache which i get because of carrying her...

Big booming buzzing confusion

I have been wanting to post this blog since she was two months old but hadn't had the time to do so....
Now she has turned seven months but i don't think it's too late to write anything about her...
Then, whenever i looked at her I remembered the words of a very famous developmental psychologist- Jean Piaget who said 'a child's world is big booming buzzing confusion'...
To me, she always semmed likek asking so many questions- 'Where am I?' Why am I here? Who are all these people? Why do they keep loking at me?
But as she grew her face looked less confusing and now, at 7 months she seems more smart than us...

Anvita at seven months