Recently two of my friends send me links to blogs started by their kids, with a request to 'encourage' them. So guys and girls, please do go here (happydogdayz.blogspot.com) to meet nine year old Aalia who loves dogs but not cats, and is such a compassionate little girl! She had the dubious honour of lighting the lamp at the inauguration of our hospital in 2002 when she was only three.
After that, go here (callmesuryan.blogspot.com) to meet seven year old Suryan who seems to have a motley of friends and likes snakes and betting and seeing that no one cheats. Reflecting on these two sweet blogs and the other adult ones I read regularly, here are some stray thoughts :
1. The cut and dried matter of fact quality of a child's writing - so refreshingly honest. Why do we lose that quality when we grow up?
2. I daresay today's kids are more tech savvy but less literary than us ancients were. I pulled out some old poems and "letters to the editor" written by my eight year old brother during the 1964 Indo-Pak war when we had to take shelter in Porbandar (yes the place where Gandhiji was born), and found the ideas and thoughts, formation of sentences, grammar, spellings etc, quite superior. I'd love to reproduce some of those here after he approves of it!
3. I wish Amanda would start up her own blog, but she loves to draw and paint, and hates the computer!
4. I like dogs and snakes too, but am too shy to say grrrr to a cat or drrrr to a viper.......oh to be a child again:-)
8 comments:
aaah...i can smell the freshness of this post from the screen. thanks for guiding me to the young world of Aalia (couldnt go to Suryan's as its not opening...will try later)
would love to read your brothers writings.
hi meraj, try again, i fixed the problem, it's a great blog and he is a cute looking guy too, though i haven't yet met him. happy belated birthday, i know it must have happened this month but don't recall the exact date.
thank you dolphin! it happens on 18th :) when is yours?
hey thnx a ton lynn..u made suryan a really happy boy...he has promised he will post comments..too much HW..hes waiting for the weekend..haha
so, its around the corner :)
Hi,
Umm the Indo-Pak war according to the history books was September 1965.
I agree that creativity of kids is refreshing and wonderful. I guess it is the "No"es that we hear in our life, our 'learned' lethargy and failures that take away the innocence.
Btw, have been to Suryan's and I think he is a great kid.
Most of us 'young ones' are perhaps less literary than the 'ancients';) but many still share the same passion and panache for literature. And yes, what we might lack in grammar & language, we definitely do make up in ideas and thoughts !
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