"Family is not an important thing.
It's everything."
-- Michael J. Fox
A person’s family is his/her first teacher; it is also the
group of people the person is most attached to. However, as people grow up they
often ignore their families and take them for granted. Such behavioral trends
inflict the family first and then with time can become a global issue bothering
the entire human society. When we were
planning about today’s session, I, my classmates and our supervisor Ms.
Shaila decided that we would teach our little gems the importance of family.
However, since they were too young to understand the complexity of relations,
we came up with the most elementary of all activities.
When our session started, we all sat in a huge circle and
gave a coloured sheet of paper to each of them. Then we applied some poster
paint on their hands and asked them to imprint it on the paper. After their
hand prints dried, we asked them to draw one of their family members on each
finger. Subsequently, I and my classmates collaboratively
collected all the papers and cut out all those little imprints. We told them
that each finger on their hand, represented a member of their family; and just
like they can form a strong fist only when all their fingers are clutched
together, their families can only be strong if all the members keep together. I
doubt if they really understood the concept of unity but they did become more
conservative about their families. I think that was enough for their age. But
there came one problem which I think was exceedingly funny. My student Aabhas, had more than five people
in his family, a bolt of lightning run down my nerve when he told me that! How
could I possibly miss that condition? I felt a little embarrassed and to cover
it up I told that his palm was the sixth member which, probably the strongest
of all. He quickly related it to his father which a relieving since I did not
want to appear dumb there. A nice brain-teaser I would say!
We also made them watch a video based on today’s theme. This
was seriously a great challenge. Those
little ‘bunnies’ just wouldn’t stop jumping about! It was very difficult to
make them sit at one place. But it is rightly said, parenting is the most
demanding of all skills, but also the most rewarding of all. Very soon their indefatigability
waved off as the video started possessing their interest. They then sat quietly
(quietness for them includes a little murmur) and patiently listen to what we
said. The occurrence of this incidence, suddenly seemed to teach me something.
I realised how beautiful it is to be a guardian and could feel the ecstasy of
being one. 
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