Eva comes with me where ever I go.
Today we went to a radiologist for sonography of my relative.
As usual, Eva started questioning:
Why she need to drink water?
How will they see inside?
Can we go inside and see how they check ?
… TO explain things to a child, an adult needs clear understanding. And if the adult does not know thing, she has to accept that ‘I do not know’.
Beauty of explaining something to a child is, you need to find out simple examples from day to day life or situations. You have to be simple and direct. A child’s question is enough to break down one’s ego of being knowledgeable.
Well,
The attendant was listening to our talk and he was listenings to us with a smile on her face.
He asked us to go inside and see the check up, without asking him for the permission.
This happens at every shop we go.
The shopkeeper and fellow customers enjoy our talk and then their response to Eva gets changed.
Through this process, I realized that as a society in general, we do not know how to ‘respond’ and ‘attend’ a child.
We consider a child ‘low’ to adults. We ban a child’s right of equality.
Today we went to a radiologist for sonography of my relative.
As usual, Eva started questioning:
Why she need to drink water?
How will they see inside?
Can we go inside and see how they check ?
… TO explain things to a child, an adult needs clear understanding. And if the adult does not know thing, she has to accept that ‘I do not know’.
Beauty of explaining something to a child is, you need to find out simple examples from day to day life or situations. You have to be simple and direct. A child’s question is enough to break down one’s ego of being knowledgeable.
Well,
The attendant was listening to our talk and he was listenings to us with a smile on her face.
He asked us to go inside and see the check up, without asking him for the permission.
This happens at every shop we go.
The shopkeeper and fellow customers enjoy our talk and then their response to Eva gets changed.
Through this process, I realized that as a society in general, we do not know how to ‘respond’ and ‘attend’ a child.
We consider a child ‘low’ to adults. We ban a child’s right of equality.
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