I often hear parents
saying that it’s a competitive world. Choice of career and getting into a good
stream is tough etc. In this light they pressurise the children as early as 5th
grade. This takes a toll on not just the children but also the entire family.
People have a restrictive vision when it comes to career choice, say medicine,
engineering, MBA etc. Of late I have come across so many parents talking of
career counselling, aptitude test etc. for children as young as 10 years. It
completely scares me and makes me wonder if these kids have a childhood at all.
First there was the craze of medical and engineering entrance, then came along
the IIMs and IITs followed by the latest integrated college; and now the baap
of all coaching for the admissions into integrated college. This coaching
happens for the children of about 6th or 7th grade!
Have we all
gone completely nuts? We expect the child to be a super human; go to school, do
the school homework, take school tests and also coaching to get into a goddamn
integrated college whose future is not really known to many. This not just
takes a toll on the kid’s health but I think we are putting together a production
unit of zombies!
