“Will I be able to inculcate all the core values and teachings in her” a thought passes by as I watch my toddler passing through the school corridor towards her classroom on her first day of school.
My husband and I, both were pretty much confident as we have prepared her much at home for the upcoming learnings of school. She knows her ABCs, 123…. etc.
What more could she need? She is just 3 right?” we both would joke.
“Phonics!” that came as a big surprise for us. In our first parent teacher meeting where teacher told us, ” no ABCs, only ay, bee or em …. That is when we realized how different this generation’s learning is from ours.
Now we have to unlearn what we had learnt and first learn what we have to make them learn.
I feel, we the ‘Millennial generation,’ who is stuck between gentle parenting and strict upbringing is the extraordinary one. We have faced the strict parents and now facing the tough kids too.
Patience is tested and we are constantly on the nerve of becoming the best parents.
As Dr. Becky Kennedy says,” we are defined by our desire to keep our kids happy and to constantly address, and maybe relieve, their emotions. Many of us are trying, quite consciously, to do things differently from our own parents, particularly when it comes to emotional expression, repression, and regulation”.
