Children

" Kuchi, Kuchi, Ku. Chiak "

Some baby or small children words we use to communicate or have fun with them. It's so amazing looking at small children with their own world at times. No worries for work, no worries for study, no worries for money, no worries on being embaress, no worries on so many damn things that we ADULTS are having now.

Life is just so simple. The only way they made their way to get what they want is to cry. Crying is the best solution for most children. They are so simple that most of the times we take them for granted. We push our responsibilities to them. We de-stress; using children as a way.

Flip through our newspaper today, so many news related to children. Maid cause hurt to infant, 6 years old girls being rape and murder, children being kidnap, children abuse using iron, father regret giving child poison to end their misery, etc....

Its heart aching and breaking to know such a real life story in Malaysia. To some this kind of nes is so common. These are only those few where its been made public to everyone on newspaper, radio or tv. What about those unreported?? What about those abuse where no one knows? What about those we do it so often on children that we didn't realize it would give a big impact on them. What do I mean ??

Answer this question honestly. Have you ever caught into a situation where a child say something (truth) that embaress you or put you in hot soup? Have you ever try stopping them from saying it or divert the whole story by telling others the child is lying? Most of the time, we manage to get our way out by just pushing back the blame on these children.

Theres a saying, "Children would not lie". Yet our Adult life is so complicated. We do everything to achieve our goals while in work or study. We brought this attitude towards treating a child. Hence, most of the times, these children are being teach in a wrong way, taking the action we did is correct. In long run, they grew up as a wicked person and blaming everyone for every failure in their life.

Should this be continue? Is this what we want from our children in the future? Their once being happy in their life will soon become being cautious to everyone they meet. Aren't we tired in wearing different mask while meeting different people? Are we had enough in telling lies everywhere just to get our way out?

Its for us to ponder..........

- ScOtTiE -

24th December 2007 (1802 hours)