2-3 days ago there was a heavy downpour and the kids were waiting for their dad to get back from work. When he arrived it was pouring outside and he asked one of our house help to bring him an umbrella till the car. A was standing at the door and watching the boy take the umbrella out and give it to Papa. When he got off the car suddenly she screamed “Papa sambhaal ke aana. Chchatri gili ho jayegi” 🤣🤣 

The innocence of the child! She had never actually used an umbrella in the rain. Only seen it in the house and played with it! They have so much of innocence in them. But sometimes I see parents taking away this innocence. Have you seen those reality shows where 5-7 year old girls dance on item numbers and make such expressions and then the people around and judges applaud them? Personally I hate them. I can’t watch those young girls dance like that. On chikni chameli and TV pe breaking news. What crap! 

Even many parents around us find pride when their kids sing a particular popular Bollywood number or dance with pelvic thrusts like the heroes of the movies. First you encourage them to do all this and then when they grow up and want to do it you want to stop them! Decide what you want. I do feel to some extent Bollywood has made women “items”. Make them dance in little clothes and portray that they do it for the men. And then we show our boys all that. So when they grow up seeing this kind of stuff they feel that’s what women are for. Isn’t somewhere this entire system wrong. At least at young tender ages we should try and show children nice things which don’t itemise a particular gender or at least show them just generally pleasant things. Let them be innocent. Anyway when they grow to a certain age they will want to sing and dance on those numbers. At that time you will say how vulgar and want to stop them. It will be too late then…..