The next generation is going to be a fascinating lot of young people. These children aged below 10 are growing up at a time where technology is hitting the pinnacle of success in almost every field. The recent news about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger doing away with the practice of books for young children has caught my attention. The reasons may include the huge deficit in the US budget but I do remember the times I wished we didn't need to carry those heavy book's in our bags as young school kids. It was more like we were in the army where we were preparing for war. The use of the generation next i Pods and i Phones and other such devices as a tool for educational purposes ? Well it is amazing. The future is upon us and we have to keep in touch with the changing times. But too much of technology hampers our growth. That is yet another issue on which ill give a small post later
I spent last Saturday at Wonder La, the amusement park in Bangalore, with my cousins and there cousins. Confused??? Well I have two kid cousins from my dad's side and these cousins have two more from there mom's side. To just put things into perspective I helped my uncle to baby sit these 4 kids between the age groups of 6-9. Yes they were a handful but I was amazed at the level of intelligence and the lack of fear that they showed. They were able to operate on one of those palm top kinda cell phones. I am not too tech savvy but it looked like a blackberry but it was not. I'm pretty darn sure they knew exactly which make and model of the cell they were operating on even if it was just too play a game.
I myself lost my fear for the water at a very late age. Probably I still fear the water but there is a certain confidence with the knowledge that I am a strong swimmer. But these kids have no knowledge about the dangers of deep water. There ignorance is innocent. Knowing that the pool is a fun place is enough to satiate there needs.
A water park is not a place where 6 year old kids can be left alone. The water park a nice family pool with a number of slides pouring into the pool area on which these 4 kids were constantly running up and coming down the slides. The number of times they slipped seemed to have no effect on there fear for the water is spite of the pain they felt upon each injury that they sustained. This one time I happened to be behind my cousin when he almost hit himself on his head but ended up hurting a toe. There was a slight cry that escaped his lips but it was quickly lost in his zeal to complete the ride he had set out to do. He must have told himself that "there is no time to cry, got to finish a 100 turns on the slippy slide".
I was appalled when I saw that the 6 year old boys could swim. Well they knew that they had gone for swimming classes probably unaware of the height of the pool which was mostly about 2 feet, but swimming here at the amusement park's wave pool that extended up to 6 feet at the deep end. With there limited knowledge and there small bodies which is no match for the powerful waves they fearlessly entered the wave pool's waters. With my heart in my mouth I watched the waves crashing down on them and they oblivious to the dangers that can arise from the waves, continued splashing about happily in the huge wave pool. Let us not for a moment assume that the waves were not daunting, but in fact these were one of the most powerful waves that I have ever come across in an amusement park. The wave was able to push me all the wave beak to the shallow end in 4 tries and these kids well in a single push were being pounded all the wave back to the shallow end. Since I took it open myself to keep an eye on them, being the big cousin that I was, I was in constant fear of them getting hurt.
How innocent it is that these little young ones lack fear. In there angelic innocence they are able to enjoy the full measure of life's small joys and we the older folk are left to tend to not only our fears but also our fears for there safety. Ignorance is blissful indeed...
I spent last Saturday at Wonder La, the amusement park in Bangalore, with my cousins and there cousins. Confused??? Well I have two kid cousins from my dad's side and these cousins have two more from there mom's side. To just put things into perspective I helped my uncle to baby sit these 4 kids between the age groups of 6-9. Yes they were a handful but I was amazed at the level of intelligence and the lack of fear that they showed. They were able to operate on one of those palm top kinda cell phones. I am not too tech savvy but it looked like a blackberry but it was not. I'm pretty darn sure they knew exactly which make and model of the cell they were operating on even if it was just too play a game.
I myself lost my fear for the water at a very late age. Probably I still fear the water but there is a certain confidence with the knowledge that I am a strong swimmer. But these kids have no knowledge about the dangers of deep water. There ignorance is innocent. Knowing that the pool is a fun place is enough to satiate there needs.
A water park is not a place where 6 year old kids can be left alone. The water park a nice family pool with a number of slides pouring into the pool area on which these 4 kids were constantly running up and coming down the slides. The number of times they slipped seemed to have no effect on there fear for the water is spite of the pain they felt upon each injury that they sustained. This one time I happened to be behind my cousin when he almost hit himself on his head but ended up hurting a toe. There was a slight cry that escaped his lips but it was quickly lost in his zeal to complete the ride he had set out to do. He must have told himself that "there is no time to cry, got to finish a 100 turns on the slippy slide".
I was appalled when I saw that the 6 year old boys could swim. Well they knew that they had gone for swimming classes probably unaware of the height of the pool which was mostly about 2 feet, but swimming here at the amusement park's wave pool that extended up to 6 feet at the deep end. With there limited knowledge and there small bodies which is no match for the powerful waves they fearlessly entered the wave pool's waters. With my heart in my mouth I watched the waves crashing down on them and they oblivious to the dangers that can arise from the waves, continued splashing about happily in the huge wave pool. Let us not for a moment assume that the waves were not daunting, but in fact these were one of the most powerful waves that I have ever come across in an amusement park. The wave was able to push me all the wave beak to the shallow end in 4 tries and these kids well in a single push were being pounded all the wave back to the shallow end. Since I took it open myself to keep an eye on them, being the big cousin that I was, I was in constant fear of them getting hurt.
How innocent it is that these little young ones lack fear. In there angelic innocence they are able to enjoy the full measure of life's small joys and we the older folk are left to tend to not only our fears but also our fears for there safety. Ignorance is blissful indeed...
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