Innocence (and not ignorance) is bliss!

Bonjour!

I hope you all did try to empathise with others’ problems this week! As to those who empathised with me over the week, a big thank you!
This week was very good for me as I got to attend a fantabulous conference on my favourite topic – cuisine narratives of which I ll be speaking in my next week’s blog!
This week, I would like to narrate my experience with “children” as well as the young adults, over all these years!
Earlier, only the young adults, that is, the youngsters in college would have lost their innocence. But in our age, the improvement in technology has rendered us with an ignorant and unsubstantial generation even in the school level.
The knowledge acquired through technology has robbed us of our innocence and given us ignorance.
How?
We search about something, learn something about it on the internet and think we know everything about it! And obviously, ta daaaa!
The most affected are the younger generation- children. They seem to have lost the very element which marks childhood- Innocence.

When we Indians used to live in joint families, children had playmates of their same age, refraining them from peep into the adult issues. Plus, they were taught not to do so.

But now, the reduce in the joint family set up and the idiot box in which all movies and soap opera shows give children, an incomplete knowledge of unnecessary things, has cost them their innocence. The pathetic part is that some shows actually promote this silly venture of children. And the elders actually seem to enjoy all this!!!

Children learn from the actions and not empty words. All the channels on the television now seem to teach vengeance and happiness based on the pain of others. Is this what they should be learning?

The social conditions of our country has worsened this. The increase in the acts of violence and misdeed against children has made parents too scared to send them out with the others to play too.

So, what is the solution?

Parents ought to spend more time with their children, curbing them wherever necessary. The children must be taught to take no for an answer. Over- indulging the children can spoil their future and can lead them to wrong decisions for failure in trivial things!

Let us begin with our children and try to achieve Dr.Kalam’s dream at least in 2025!

Jai Hind!