Thoughtful Sunday Morning
I love reading thoughtful columns in Sunday's newspaper, yes, I am one those who love to hold the newspaper in hand than reading online. I was eagerly waiting to read, while the newspaper appeared on my door.
I grabbed it and jumped into the chair looking for my favorite columns. Puzzles my favorite.... playing with numbers in Sudoku and followed by Marathi Shabdhakoda. Now its time for the interesting and thoughtful or say thought provoking articles or just light feel good happy ones.
Todays article was about kids.....ABUSE,MOLESTATION,RAPE AND SOMETHING VERY INHUMAN HAPPENING INCIDENTS AROUND.
Reference was of an incident happened on 7th July 2024, 8-year-old girl raped and killed brutally by 12 years kids.... schoolmates. Similar cases shocked and gave goosebumps. The figures reflected for cases happening annually to daily was shocking.
I couldn't read more than two paragraphs.... What's wrong...why are people behaving like this? What can be done?? This is not about gender its happening with kids irrespective of their gender. How can we protect them.
As a parent what can we do? have you ever thought on this, is your child self-sufficient and strong enough to fight back?
What is that you dream for your child, the best of life. A good life, luxuries, want them to be successful. Every parent wants it. but does it not sound very vague...the road to this has lot of hardships that the child has to go through. well, some are seen some are not. there are lot of challenges the child is going to come across and its very important how the child faces and overcomes it.
The seen challenges can be overcome but those unseen are very risky and dangerous. While we are preparing our children for their carrier developing various skills in them, training them for better tomorrow, are we? When we say we are bringing up the child we not only make them confident and independent, but we need to make them self-sufficient in all ways.
Good touch and Bad touch boomed up in school after various cases got reflected in news against child abuse, everywhere everybody was talking about it. It was included in theme syllabus now. In playschool the teachers started explaining the three-year-old about the touches. Well awareness is good, but does it serve the purpose.
It sounded now that the children were clear on the touch and probably now abuse proof. well well well There is lot more to it no matter how much you educate people or children about it...its still happening around. Few get disclosed and public. Every newspaper covers one disclosed story and many hidden once.
Good touch or Bad touch are probably the base of this act, children will identify it and may report too. What I think is we should help our kids learn martial arts as basic education, self-protection, and use it or implement whenever they see danger around. Schools have included Taekwondo, karate gymnastics etc in the syllabus but it should be take to next level.
Parents should stop protecting children and expose them to the martial arts, make them stronger enough to actually fight back.
In maximum reported cases the rapist or the abuser is the close or say a known person. Child needs to be emotionally stronger to fight against someone he/she is emotionally connected. Parents should be strong enough to stand with kids against abuser and file the cases. Come ahead and support your kid, the law is very strict against such abusers. Law will help you provided you ask for it,stand for it and stand with your child.
Some ways to deal with this before time...precaution is better than cure
Talk to your child,about everthing.be transparent and let the child feel comfortable with you.
What about children or something who cannot have martial arts training... They can have those sprays, safetypins, even chilli powder handy. Let the know if requires they can use their manucured hands to scrathsomeones face, toothsi smile to tear someoneapart, fingures to screw in someones eyes.
Remember that if u do nit use them someone else will use it to tear u apart. If u do not protect yourself, fight for ur self, no one else would... Candle march's doesn't open anyonea eyes.
It's war.. You kill the person or he will kill you.
Put your nails, teethe, masks on... It's the fight of survival.