Nurture!

A 4-year-old girl is siting on the pavement outside her house and crying. She is too scared to go home as she fears her mother will scold her because she broke a vase in the living room.

It makes me wonder why is life full of such paradoxes. I have gone through 20 years of education (I count kindergarten as education) to be branded capable/qualified to get a regular 9 to 5 job in a company.  They are still not sure if, after all the education, I can handle the responsibility. So they create process flows for everything on earth,some totally ridiculous like - how to talk to your neighbor, etiquette of writing an email etc. To top it all they invented - the BOSS.

On the other hand, a responsibility as mammoth as giving birth to a child and bringing him up is allowed with absolutely no training or education. The only qualification required, at least in India, is getting married.

AP shared with me that sensitive & responsible parenting is required for a child to develop a healthy sense of self as the human brain develops to 90% of its adult weight & capacity by the age of 4. The basic architecture of the brain develops during pregnancy, but the connections between the different parts of the brain are formed in the initial years. Hence what a child experiences and how it experiences is critical for it’s future. I wish someone would teach that to the little girl's mother.

I read somewhere ‘don’t leave it to nature, nurture’.