The most enjoyed summer vacations for us which creates memories are those vacations when we were school going children in 1980's and 90's. We used to long for the final day when we return home from school and our school doesn't want us back at least for a months time.
The first thing we used to do is to visit our friends who continuously nurtured us to visit them when we were busy with our school books. After that visits we would plan for our native trips. Those who moved to cities from villages would visit their villages once in a year during this summer holidays. All others would surely visit their grand parents.
The packing and getting ready to visit our grand parents and our relatives would be of great joy and pleasure.We used to have many friends over there. The real vacation starts there. We can sleep late, waste time, go for unplanned visits, play whatever we like, eat whatever we wish and get dirty as well. But these made memories.
Today's children almost doesn't know about that kind of vacation. This competitive world makes the parents to utilize even the summer vacation to make their children to learn different things. This paved way for many summer camps which gives coaching in arts and science, sports and games and playing too. However these are planned vacations which can't be impressive as those days.The other ways to spend their holidays is planning for a trip and to visit theme parks which gives pleasure at that time but can't make memories for ever. The sad part of these camps is that they are not available for poor children.
MINE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AS A MOTHER:
When my children were small I used to fear about their outings and almost should be back of them. When they were ready to go for summer camps, Even though our presence will be in our offices, our thoughts roam asking many questions like, what if they do something dangerous? what if they're missing? Are they at the camp? what if they are falling behind their peers? etc. So thought of spending time with them and to give my children mine childhood holiday enjoyment to them, but with less independence( for all of us) and fear free days.
Almost all our near and dears reside in same city, so none of the relations reside in faraway. Also the children are grown up now, so we thought to spend time within ourselves,by sleeping late, reading books, exchanging our views, playing without any rules,taking unplanned visits to our friends and relatives and workshop them to write essays on their favourite topics,and so on.They are grown enough to understand the reading abilities, we used to share our views about various books and its authors we like. Moreover they are listening to me, I think so. Even I used to share my views about many things to them and also create an interest to take part in it. I used to practice them in decision making skills.
Laziness of walking and jogging left me when I started to enjoy it with my children. It created an energy within me to come first among us. Also they encourage me by lagging back, which I can understand their love towards me. We don't have many vacations to spend like these. Before they spread their wings to fly to achieve their goals, I thought of storing some memories with in me. So this vacation made a memory within us as like my childhood days'.
Lets give our children a chance to enjoy the holidays as we did, at least once in a while.
- Tamizh Iniya
The first thing we used to do is to visit our friends who continuously nurtured us to visit them when we were busy with our school books. After that visits we would plan for our native trips. Those who moved to cities from villages would visit their villages once in a year during this summer holidays. All others would surely visit their grand parents.
The packing and getting ready to visit our grand parents and our relatives would be of great joy and pleasure.We used to have many friends over there. The real vacation starts there. We can sleep late, waste time, go for unplanned visits, play whatever we like, eat whatever we wish and get dirty as well. But these made memories.
Today's children almost doesn't know about that kind of vacation. This competitive world makes the parents to utilize even the summer vacation to make their children to learn different things. This paved way for many summer camps which gives coaching in arts and science, sports and games and playing too. However these are planned vacations which can't be impressive as those days.The other ways to spend their holidays is planning for a trip and to visit theme parks which gives pleasure at that time but can't make memories for ever. The sad part of these camps is that they are not available for poor children.
MINE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AS A MOTHER:
When my children were small I used to fear about their outings and almost should be back of them. When they were ready to go for summer camps, Even though our presence will be in our offices, our thoughts roam asking many questions like, what if they do something dangerous? what if they're missing? Are they at the camp? what if they are falling behind their peers? etc. So thought of spending time with them and to give my children mine childhood holiday enjoyment to them, but with less independence( for all of us) and fear free days.
Almost all our near and dears reside in same city, so none of the relations reside in faraway. Also the children are grown up now, so we thought to spend time within ourselves,by sleeping late, reading books, exchanging our views, playing without any rules,taking unplanned visits to our friends and relatives and workshop them to write essays on their favourite topics,and so on.They are grown enough to understand the reading abilities, we used to share our views about various books and its authors we like. Moreover they are listening to me, I think so. Even I used to share my views about many things to them and also create an interest to take part in it. I used to practice them in decision making skills.
Laziness of walking and jogging left me when I started to enjoy it with my children. It created an energy within me to come first among us. Also they encourage me by lagging back, which I can understand their love towards me. We don't have many vacations to spend like these. Before they spread their wings to fly to achieve their goals, I thought of storing some memories with in me. So this vacation made a memory within us as like my childhood days'.
Lets give our children a chance to enjoy the holidays as we did, at least once in a while.
- Tamizh Iniya
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