Wednesday 11 April 2018

Jack of All


‘Jack of all trades, master of none’

In the 10th parenting lesson of series #Parenting Intangible Wonder, lets focus upon hobbies or co circular activities of children and their selection.

Have you seen a list of activities in your neighborhood, they range from art to craft, singing to dancing, and in sports there is ample variety to choose from be it Tennis, Football, Basketball, Skating, Karate, swimming or cricket and not to forget theatre & dramatic classes.

Lets see a common scenario in a house.

"Hey Joe you should hurry for your dance class", says a doting mother to which she gets reply "Mom, I am tired..."

Mother says annoyingly,  "Set your time table accordingly, now hurry up."


Child has something to say, has much more to convey and parents needs to understand and accept their choices. As a parent one has a huge choice variation to select for activities for children. Be sure your child can master in particular field with proper guidance than participating in most of the classes. 



But one needs to be mindful and aware of child needs while selecting such classes. And the question comes which activities to select and how. Don’t make a choice in hurry and regret it later. Let us see few pointers to keep in mind to select activities:

Select the area, which interests your child, seems simple but is difficult task to read child’s mind.

->If your child needs physical fitness, choose sports instead of drawing.
->If your child needs handwriting improvement then choose artistic skills, the flow and brush strands will help child to improve.
->Select activity that can channelize children energy properly.
->Not all children are same; so don’t compare the achievements of others in any field.
->Maybe your child is great speaker and not good runner, so enhance child’s public speaking than asking him/her to participate in marathon.

Therefore parents need to have a mantra for co curricular activities and it is Listen Understand Accept & Get Along. And don’t push them in any field, let it be their call as this may rest in dwindling interest of a child. Be a guide in their interest and not leader. And once you know their interest be along with them in their journey.

Sharing this post with AtoZ Challenge 2018,  Day 10 - Letter J - J for Jack.

This month we are taking AtoZChallenge with theme #ParentingIntangibleWonder, you can read all our posts of this theme here.


Blogchatter is playing a motivator for us in this challenge.

@Meenal

16 comments:

  1. This is a thought provoking post! Parents should not rub in their interests on the child. Thank you for sharing

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    1. Yes it is important to give child what they want and not what we desire.
      Thanks for dropping by AuraWorld.

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  2. Be their guide, not leader. This is so true. Parents should follow child's instinct and ibterest to take the most out of the classes. Many times, child goes to a certain class just because their parents think they should. But their interest is somewhere else. This is a very important and thought provoking topic in today's scenario.

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    1. Yes their true interest is the primary thing to do for parents.

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  3. Children mind is so innocent and true. Its very important to give your children space and little freedom to fly high and explore

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    1. Giving required space for kids to explore will definitely show parents a correct path to choose.

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  4. That's totally true, I am agreed with this we should see the interest of our kids then only ask them to join the classes because what matter is their happiness and choice first.

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    1. Yes Priyal happiness of child matters the most and then kid also excels in the form chosen.

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  5. I have made my son join chess and karate classes..instead of hopping over to different activities; it's better to excel few selected ones..

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    1. You are a wise mother Ritu, that you kept things to minimal with perfection.

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  6. Can I agree more buddy and I am so proud of myself that I am not this fussy parent.

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    1. Being not fuusy parent is a great way to have non fussy child Roma. You are doing all right in this area.

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  7. Thanks for sharing all the useful pointers above. Your post inspire me more. Keep up the great work going.

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  8. Interesting and thought provoking post. I like your perspective and agree that we need not make our children run in all directions.

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  9. It has to be a balance of both though. Parents shouldnt force children to do things outside their interest at the same time, they should enncourage them to try out different things.

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  10. This is a great post and is surely a must read for parents! Nice post!

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