Conversation between A and papa

Morning

A: Anu ko aapke phone mein Anu dekhna hai

Papa: abhi phone charge ho raha hai. Abhi aap nahin dekh sakte 

A: theek hai (walks away satisfied with the answer)

Night as soon as he walks in from office

A: aapka phone charge ho gaya?

Papa( not realising why she is asking) honestly replies: haan ho gaya 

A: To anu ko aapke phone mein anu dekhna hai

Papa not knowing what more to say hands over the phone to her for her to indulge. 

A takes the phone and confidently browses through all the photos and videos and picks out her videos and starts to watch them. Note she only picks out her own videos. She does not like watching other videos even if there are kids in it. 

While she was watching one such video, it was a video of when she was a few months old and crying, she started feeling bad for herself. Asked me “anu kyun ro rahi hai” I gave her some answer which she seemed satisfied with but still was feeling bad seeing her crying. So she picked up a small toy fish and offered it to her crying self in the phone and said ” anu , anu ko ye fish de sakti hai?” I just dint know how to react. Should I laugh should I smile or what?? So I just told her “ye anu to phone mein hai aap usko fish kaise denge?” She seemed to understand coz she gave me a faint smile and went back to browsing the gallery 😀

How sweet and innocent babies are. Empathy for herself crying in a video. This feeling of empathy is so important as they grow up into teenagers and then adults. Right now it’s only for another crying baby. But eventually it must be for humankind. Some of us are more privileged than others. We have a luxurious house, luxurious meals , designer clothes. But there are people in this world who don’t even have basic necessities forget luxuries. To understand them to empathise with them. To do something to help such people at least get basic needs and rights like education. Let’s try and get some of these values into our children so that the world might be a better place to live in. 

Something I bumped into just after I wrote this article 
https://tinybop.com/blog/13-books-to-spark-conversations-about-empathy