Finally summer vacations are here after whole one year interval.
Well, I am pretty excited for the coming fun filled tenure and so are my kids. Although this enthusiasm is not as Strong as it was in my childhood.
In those days summer vacation was not only the time of break from studies, but a TIME......
1. To visit maternal parents called ‘nana - nani ka ghar’ was always the first thing on priority basis.
2. To concentrate on something you want to master from the list of your hobbies.
3. To sleep for longer hours in morning and noon.
4. To explore new holiday destinations.
5. To chit chat till wee hours with cousins.
7. To afford laziness by bathing late, sitting in front of TV for no reason, no hair brushing, no nail trimming etc.
Now the trend of such break is more or less changed. For some, visit at Nani place is erased from the list. Kids get summer vacation home work full of activities to remain busy, and then they do not bother much to look into new session books.
Working parents can not tolerate the lazy kids, and they have to get ready with their parents for the day care. Visit of cousins are not summer vacation dependent because of different and non correlated tasks of day today living. So their visits are rare and of lesser number of days.
Apart from the above, the concept of summer vacation in another big rising trend since last few years. Parents are accepting it as a modernization from western culture. Here kids are visiting the school or any campus giving all facilities of a good summer camp like a school with zero studies. Where kids are required to stay for 4 - 6 hours and follow the routine of processing the activities in the school campus prospectus.
The kids are doing all types of activities like dance, singing, art/craft, swimming and personality development programs.
So as in schools days the child has to wake up early and get ready for school. Here too the child does all activities irrespective of the child's interest.
All children will be taught in batches of more then 10. Sometimes even 20 plus kids will be in a batch. I surprise that how a kid without personal attention can master something he/she not interested or even interested in, with such schedule and non focused environment.
All they can have is just fun or just time pass.
No matter how hot climate it is but our little totes have to go out for these camps which parents have enrolled for their development and fun. The time that they could spend at home with parents and relatives in building closeness and capture some precious memorable childhood memories.
This is the longest vacation that a child gets and can be used in doing something that one does not get chance of doing during school days.
This is the time parents can make child experience nature, cultural events and social gathering. To make one more open and confident for society.
This is the time parents can use to teach them emotions and humanity.
All I can say is that old trends and culture are not always meant for changing them. Some are still valuable and better than our modern like the summer vacation fun we used to have in our childhood.
~Nidhi
