Ever wondered what goes on in the minds of the little ones around us? The generation Z is here and is all set to work their wonders on everyone around them. You find kids nowadays to be smarter, quicker and more alert than we were during our childhood. Well the reason to this lies in the second line of the article itself. They are the Generation Z, a generation of kids who have been exposed to the internet, telecom, and media ever since they started uttering their first word. They learn their ABCs in their smart classrooms, they absolutely need to watch the rhymes on the YouTube, or the DVD players while they have their lunch, dinner, or the baby meals in between, and of course, they realize how important it is to remain connected to the rest of the world, so it takes no time for them to learn how to dial a number in the phone and don’t be fooled, the person who receives the call at the other end, is the exact same person the child has been meaning to call. Gone are the days a child would make blank calls by just blindly redialing numbers. I am wonderstruck by the intelligence level of these kids. But does this mean that kids are growing up way too fast and the innocence is not a long lasting factor in them? I thought a lot about it. But the answer was Negative.
Children might be growing up fast but that has nothing to do with their childlike innocence. The more I spend time with my three and a half year old niece, the more I realize they are no different than we were in our childhood. The other day I was at the hospital for some family exigency, and I noticed a unique scene. Amongst all the hustle and bustle, and all those perturbed faces, I saw a little girl aged around four standing in the middle of the lobby and singing the national anthem at the top of her voice, or so it seemed, as I could see her, straining her vocal chords as much as she could. It did not seem to bother her that she did not have any audience. On and on she went until after the fourth time; when she decided to go back to her family and sit down to rest her throat. Children surround themselves in a beautiful world of thoughts, imagination, and fun and frolic. They perceive things differently than we as adults do. They wear their heart on their sleeve, but at the same time they are forgiving, loving and they seek the same from us. For them issues do not last more than half an hour. They are bold, they speak their heart out, and they love themselves. As we grow up we start losing these quintessential qualities, and are surrounded by inhibitions, and that is where we stop growing radically, and reach a stage where we keep growing but at a decreasing rate.
So the result of all the technology, media, the world wide web, smartphones and the simple and spontaneous innocence, mixed in a jar called the child and garnished with a lot of love, gives to us the kids today. We can no more feed them the stories of the Wee Willie Winky, or the fables and ask them to do or not to do something; we have to reason with them. Make them see logic behind every new thing we teach them. Because we should realize, unlike the olden times where our only source of reference to any subject or topic was our parents and grandparents, kids nowadays have something called the internet, which answers all their questions (maybe not always in the most appropriate manner). They are more inquisitive and less patient, and we have to be a lenient but firm friend to them to make them grow into the perfect citizens of tomorrow.
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