CHILDREN: THE GUARDIANS OF THE PARENTAL SANITY METER

It was a supposedly normal day, I had just taken a bath and I had left two towels on my bed, five minutes later I hear a shriek “WHY HAVE YOU LEFT TWO TOWELS ON THE BED?” I mean for me it’s just two towels but my mom thinks I’ve pulled my entire cupboard out and flung it onto the bed.

My mom had ordered chicken for lunch and me being hungry, I ended up eating it all, a while later another scream and a slipper flies across the room “WHY DID YOU EAT UP ALL THE CHICKEN??” I guess she feels that I ate up the only source of food we had, luckily I managed to evade the insanity by telling her that we had rice and gravy left.

Insanity or Boredom is the culprit behind both these incidents. For our parents, stress and tension as to when and how will we get through Covid19 slowly eats into their brains, this is why they are sometimes seen lying down or sitting and wondering what to do next. Our part in this is to not let their minds go totally idle or totally hyper, it is to make sure that it is perfectly balanced.

Our fathers also get bored to a point of time where they will decide to start teaching us all different lessons for life, like how to change a tyre if necessary, how to catch all types of birds and animals, how to maintain plants etc. At home even if it is actually keeping our parents sane. When we finish all the snacks and go and ask for more snakes... oops sorry snacks, they will have to make something which is protection from Insanity.

Now there are a lot of ways to De-Stress with them for example, play a fun game of UNO with them, have a good and long talk session with them so that they know that they are never alone. Sanity is a very important part of life, which if lost will cause havoc anywhere including at home.

When I see my mom doing her daily chores or my dad going down to the office daily, I’ve always wondered how they manage with the same things every day. Like it will get quite irritating if you were made to do the same thing again and again, then I realized that we are here to help our parents keep their cool while working or doing anything.

The world has slowed down,

Shops and businesses shut down,

Our parents still try to earn money,

So that we do not go hungry,

Yet they are human,

This means they need more protection,

So we need to give them that affection,

Which will keep them running,

So that their minds may stop overworking.

The world is a difficult place but with our parents hale and healthy and us by their sides, it will surely be easy, until next time….

WRITTEN BY,

R.MAHIMA RAM