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

Amusing...

Weird are the things which amuse children- a rotating ceiling fan, the sound of rattles, the singing Santa Claus, moving vehicles, bright colours, flashing TV lights, balloons, rolling on the floor with the blanket covered on the whole face, fluttering of the curtains, songs of Kannada TV serials (as my daughter doesn't respond to Hindi TV serial songs), watching the other children play, watching the laptop screen, touching the blender, the noise of papers, ringing phone and the list goes on.....

My Little Angel

Fair and flawless skin...
Long arms and legs carved to perfection...
Tiny fingers curling up with the slightest touch...
Toes which reminds me of the famous ONIDA tv ad 'neighbour's envy, owner's pride'...
Wide open sparkling eyes which look like that of a wax doll...
This little wonder of nature made more beautiful with the touch of minutest details such as the fingernails- always teasing the onlooker 'see my nails are ever manicured'...
Those long eye lashes carefully placed on the eyes...
Not to forget the dimple on the chin which mock me and tell all the time 'am dad's little girl'...

All this and much more make my little one an angel on earth...
Do not know whether i should be proud to call her 'my daughter' or the mother nature who created her...

Baby's First Picture