Small Guide to baby care....

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3^rd March, 2010 Time: 10:44A.M.

It was a Wednesday. And to be truly called, one of the worst days for my family. It was a prophecy waiting to happen. Mom had been saying it for months now, that watch it, it’s better you take care of it now before you don’t get even a speck of a second to regret!!! Indeed, we all were full with remorse, disgust, and consternation.

Siya, my niece, had a major accident and that too at the safest of all places, at our house. It left us totally dumbfounded and stunned for not paying heed to what my parents wanted all of us to understand. Lesson No.1: Always pay close attention to what elders at your home tell you, their advice coupled with experience is priceless and rewarding.

My niece is now 1 year, 2 months, 13 days old when the incident took place. There is no denying the fact that whatever has to happen will happen for sure, and everything happens for your own good. I, my father, my mother, my bhabhi (my brother’s wife), and my niece, Siya were at home. My mom was washing clothes in the backyard, my father was getting ready to go and pay bills, bhabhi had just gone to washroom, and I was playing with Siya. We were playing in the living room, when she unintentionally threw her meal on the floor and started wandering about in the hall. The flooring in our house is all tiles, so I thought it’ll be wiser to clean the surface before she slips and hurt self. I mobbed the surface and went in the kitchen to dump it in trash without realizing Siya to have gone by then in her room where television was kept and switched on but with bhabhi in washroom. Now, the television here is lying on a wooden trolley/ cart with wheels the bottom, making it highly precarious. My dad was near the exit gate and I was in kitchen when we heard a loud thump from the bedroom. In a flash, me and my father started running towards the room realizing it would be something with Siya, and to our utter astonishment, she was there weeping, compressed under the television on the floor. I was horrified, and my dad, quickly realizing that Siya wasn’t visible from his end, picked up the television and threw it away. I gathered all my courage and sided it further to create room for him to grab Siya and pick her up into his arms. She cried incessantly, and on hearing the loud thump, my mom rushed in, and so did my bhabhi.

Dad was furious on my carelessness, but we all were utterly shocked to see her not only crying, but her both nostrils bleeding. Except my father, nobody could keep a hold on emotions and started crying on seeing her in such a dilapidated state. My father rushed, started the car, asked bhabhi to come along to the kids’ hospital. I too couldn’t resist it and decided to go along.

Reaching at the hospital, Siya was taken care of by the diagnosis of the doctor. He observed her for long and told her that she needs to be given medicine and blood from nostrils is a good sign in such cases. He told us the following symptoms for internal injuries (kindly take note of these):

If there’s a mixture of blood and water oozing out of ears of a kid

If the child is losing consciousness again and again

If there’s vomiting

If some part(s) of the body is(are) going into an inactive state

On comprehending, we soon realized that our little angel was out of danger. But there were numerous lessons learnt from the whole episode. A golden tip: follow them in your life, and lead a life full of happiness and joy.

Lesson No.2: Post marriage, it is always wiser to live with your parents, then be a nuclear family. Kids grow effortlessly and they get all the wisdom, learning and teaching from the most experienced individuals in the family.

Lesson No.3: When your kid is above 7months and less than 2.5 years old, pay him/her all the attention. For this would not only help the child to express self, but also will take care of his/her surroundings.

Lesson No.4: Buy a tiled floor house only when you have a family of all grown ups or still have a long time to go for family planning.

Lesson No.5: Never keep anything heavy on a moving trolley/cart, for there’s always some probability of disaster waiting to happen.

Lesson No. 6: And the most important one, LOVE your children, they are the only angels living in this earthly world.

Take care, because they are worth it!!!

Decision making...

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Have you ever experienced the feeling of not being able to judge as to what is wrong and what is right? Where to draw the line between the two extremes? Do they necessarily mean judging something/ someone as either black or white, or there’s a mysterious grey matter that exists between the two?

Well, I’ve seen myself dumbfounded and clueless at times judging something wrong or right. Isn’t this question highly relative in nature, because a perspective of an individual can be totally different from that of others? What may be right to you may be wrong to me, but then why don’t we decide something in terms of universal perspective. A viewpoint, as vindicated by the sufficient sample of population. But does that necessarily mean that what is right for some society should be universally right and applied to everyone. For example, consider a village of lunatics where in a traveler enters only to find himself being cursed by all for acting strangely (in the usual human manner). Now who would be called as wrongly blamed or rightly cursed???

There were times, when correctness (or lack of it) was visualized by elders in Indian homes. What the elderly people of a family would convey would be taken as the right thing for everyone, without anybody questioning it. What mattered was who is saying it, and not what is being said. Elders were the decision makers and everything was tagged ‘right’ whatever was quoted by them. But now, we see a huge shift in the way we tag things/ people/ situations. Now the priority has moved to making your own decisions and adjudging what is right and wrong. People have now started paying attention to what is being said, and not to who is quoting it!!! Isn’t that again a paradox in itself, when we have those pillars who has seen all the ups and downs in life, battling against youngsters ready to apply mind and logic with no or almost negligible experience???

Do you have any clue to decide what is wrong and what is right? Is it the moment that decides your decision variables, which ultimately define your wrong or right? Let me know if you got answers…

Enjoy!!!

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Luck by chance - Pratibha menon

The kid around the block, or infact the student who has not missed even a single class throughout out her innings at school, Pratibha Menon, was accorded a distinction/ award for having 100% attendance, a feat almost 100% of students find impossible and naturally unachievable.

Coming across this incident, one gets easily reminded of Dettol advertisement where in a student is awarded for not missing even a single class in school for entire year. The bottom line being the hygiene through Dettol Soap/ hand wash protects the kid from all fatal diseases. Quite symbolic, isn’t so???

This feat by Delhi student Pratibha certainly makes her the brand ambassador for Dettol (RB Group) advertisements. Is the company ready to fill in the empty seat (as shown in the advertisement) and Pratibha ready to mark her attendance now in realm of media industry? Only time would tell….

Read news story here

The Australian Syndrome

A mother of two, based out of a small town in Punjab, is in a dilemma over sending one of her kids to Australia for the want of better education, healthy lifestyle and bright future for entire family, but realizes the ill events occurring down-under. Now that is what one would call an Australian Syndrome, where on one end of the spectrum, you’ll find triumph waiting in a land of opportunities, but on the other end are opportunistic individuals, ready to cause wrath on influx the way they see moral or rather immoral.

What has been happening in Australia is unfriendly to say the least. From the sledging on cricket grounds to beatings on road-lanes, the journey has been tough for Indian counterparts. One needs to look into the gravity of the situation in an inclusive manner, than exclusive. True, not every Australian can be tagged as inhospitable, but then not every Indian is stealing someone’s job or living a life in non-conformance to Australian values.

What makes Indians so vulnerable? Why has there been a spate of incidents in recent past? Well, if we introspect rationally, we’ll realize it is the cultural difference that makes so. Australia, to my understanding can be symbolic to a bowl full with rich ingredients mixed together, but does that mean that this bowl will necessarily serve a delicious meal? Well, you know the answer. Australians have always been very accommodating, but just one characteristic doesn’t define the entire personality, even of a human. In this highly complex world, we should rather understand the role of every variable than focus on one particular parameter in order to survive as one amongst the fittest. But the subtle quandary that exists within us either living in a kangaroo land, or as a matter of fact, in any place in world except India. How would existing members of a home feel if a new entrant, though physically living with them, is recluse in every other sense? Would you still call it a ‘home’? Same analogy gets applied to Australia, who as accepting as they are, may want to break the ice and want Indians to live the way they live, be friendly, learn the social lingo, and adapt to the locale customary schemes. But it’s us who remain oblivion to the insistence!!! Now, is that so hard? If it is, next time stop staring at a foreign couple lip-locking in the middle of an Indian bazaar, calling it highly ‘disgusting’ and ‘unacceptable’!!!

You need two hands to clap, but one to slap. Slapping, so far, we’ve been on the receiving side, what is needed now is to reverberate the noise from here back to them, if the series of events is to continue. If they are shameless, we need to give up the shackles of quietness, and reciprocate our esteemed partners in full favor. In fact, since immemorial times, when has any Indian not given his partner his worth due!!!For every unaided Indian killed down-under, we should kill a couple of innocent Aussies domestically, and promise Australia about thorough investigation underway, as they do!!! Only then they would realize what it feels to lose a family member thousands of miles away. An injury on other’s body may cause remorse to the guilty, but only a wound on his own body can cause him the real pain.

Through this article, I would say no one individual is responsible for suffering, but it requires just one individual’s courage to dictate terms to rectify thing in order out of chaos. So Indian government, its emigrant citizens, the Australian government and its citizens, should act as an Individual ready to put the things in right perspective!!!