I have stopped writing on blog for more than a year but life and learning was as interesting as usual here. This post is from last summer....no, it's continue till date, just had a break for monsoon days.
Both my children going to river (not regularly but mostly during summer) since their age of 3. But no hurry to swim independently without any safety equipment...just splashing, puddling and enjoying water. It's just last summer that both get confident enough to swim their own. River is so close to their heart...so much to explore around the river and so much fun to be in water.
I have always been scared of swimming in river. But it was my son's wish that I learn swimming and join them in river adventures. And I learned swimming in river! Liberation from one more fear and great family bonding experience. Swimming brought many changes. It gave children chance to interact with so many people of different age...people living around and coming to swimming regularly, local kids became friends, talks with fishermen about their favorite subject 'fish' developed interest in fishing!
Now, fishing became compulsory after swimming. We are vegetarian people. But they love fishes and like to know more about them. This fishing addiction was something of my dislike just because it was taking too much of my precious morning time. One side my conditioned mind thinking it's time waste and other side I could see it's reason of great passion, excitement and joy for children. I was introspecting my take on it. I never really understood their passion until I found an article 'Fishing' in 'Sandarbh' while just looking for something to read. This insightful article cleared my vision. http://www.eklavya.in/pdfs/Sandarbh_74/01-02_Fishing.pdf
Then boat added adventure to our river-trips. Thanks to Chachu. Fishing
takes good amount of time and during that I try my hands on
photography...so many objects around busy people, cheerful children,
flora & fauna. Friends too joined us in our swimming, boating & fishing and have wonderful moments together.
Both my children going to river (not regularly but mostly during summer) since their age of 3. But no hurry to swim independently without any safety equipment...just splashing, puddling and enjoying water. It's just last summer that both get confident enough to swim their own. River is so close to their heart...so much to explore around the river and so much fun to be in water.
I have always been scared of swimming in river. But it was my son's wish that I learn swimming and join them in river adventures. And I learned swimming in river! Liberation from one more fear and great family bonding experience. Swimming brought many changes. It gave children chance to interact with so many people of different age...people living around and coming to swimming regularly, local kids became friends, talks with fishermen about their favorite subject 'fish' developed interest in fishing!
Now, fishing became compulsory after swimming. We are vegetarian people. But they love fishes and like to know more about them. This fishing addiction was something of my dislike just because it was taking too much of my precious morning time. One side my conditioned mind thinking it's time waste and other side I could see it's reason of great passion, excitement and joy for children. I was introspecting my take on it. I never really understood their passion until I found an article 'Fishing' in 'Sandarbh' while just looking for something to read. This insightful article cleared my vision. http://www.eklavya.in/pdfs/Sandarbh_74/01-02_Fishing.pdf
When something is so close to heart there is no surprise when it inspires stories or generate questions. When child ask a question 'how can we measure how deep is the river?' and months later when he come to know about echolocation in Bats, he immediately connects both completely different looking things and that's most amazing feeling.
This is how we learn together.
1 comment:
i am happy to see that some parents are allowing their children to go nearer to nature
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