ACHIEVEMENT

A sense of achievement is something which we derive when we put our heart and soul into what we are doing and we accomplish the task.

Ayush has been a sense of achievement for me. When I see him today, I am a proud mother. I am happy he is able to teach me a lot of things I dont know. He makes me think. I am four times his age, but at times the statements that he makes to my reactions gets me thinking and pondering on his response. Children have a fantastic ability to see things just as what they are. They dont analyse, think, twist it in their mind and try to reason things out. I dont know if we will ever come to a stage when we can talk what comes to our mind.

The best part is that todays curriculum makes them see real life. I dont remember reading poetry which talked about day to day activities. The latest poetry being on "Washing". The poet talks about washing day in and day out as a chore which is such a drab. Everytime the poet hears his mom asking him if he has washed his hands after he is back from play, before he sits for a meal and so on... We were able to relate so much to this. We infact even laughed about it saying that I am just like the poet's mom always behind him asking him the same questions.Such simple language and such a simple topic.

I see him reading the encyclopedia and referring to topics that he is learning everyday at school. He puts forth questions which are definetly very difficult for me to answer, but I feel good that he is taking extra effort to learn something apart from his curriculum.

My Son gives me a sense of achievement.