Children’s day, a sad experience

I notice that different places around the world have a "Children's Day", but here in the U.S., WE DON'T have a "Children's Day", and I think that it's sad that we don't. Then again, I have become appalled by the way my country treats it's children and how we have become so obsessed with money. We are going to be like England very soon and end up with a lost generation. Anyway, I probably won't be living in the U.S. for long if things get any worse here. I might end up moving to my father's country, Canada.

There actually isn't a Children's Day in my country that I am aware of. That said, when it comes to the other holidays that we celebrate in this country, I do everything that I possibly can to make sure that my children know the reason for the celebration. We have Thanksgiving that is coming up next week and my daughter was telling me about the Pilgrims this evening. Then of course there is Christmas next month and I've made sure that my children know the actual meaning of Christmas as well.

I havent heard of one here but then there might be we have so many days that celibrate some thing

hi professor, i guess your children's day celebration will be more on the history and maybe politics, and not really on the essense of being a child, and maybe its values have changed through the years already. politically, they give the children the right to enjoy and grow into healthy and educated persons. i guess this is mostly given emphasis in the school or maybe community activities with pressure on children's involvement. they are taught the value of sharing with others and being charitable when they have the material things. maybe it is something like cultural programmes of songs and dances organized by teachers for their students. maybe some quizzes and other competitions as well. is this how it is celebrated? am not sure though. ann

Nowadays education is so focused on "learning the trade", they focus on training the thinking, analytical and technical skills but they forgot about the basic values. As we get more and more clever, we get less and less wise. It is indeed sad!

Hi Prof, I do not know who exactly called him " Chacha" but its sure to be some of his 'chamcha's kids'. Guess you can also hold " affair day" on Nov 14th-as nehru had his famous affair with Edwina Mountbatten too. Why can't we have a children's day without all this sycophancy? Being the hypocrites that we are, we tend to associate historical people with these days. Nehru was a man-nothing great about him-except for his dynastic rule planning. He had his weak points too like you and me. And does everything have to have a reason? Instead of telling them about Nehru, let's make the children aware that its their day. Instead of submitting them to infantile quizzes, let us use this day to open their minds and visualize the India we can't see, but children can with their of innocence.

Good discussion topic ! It is sad though ! When we were young, it was naturally known why Nov 14th was celebrated as CHildrens' day.I cannot even remember who told me the reason.It was as natural as the alphabet or tables.

Sir, I feel that now a days these celebration days has become just another day of vacation. It will not be a surprise if school teacher does not know the same. Forget about children, many citizen of our country holdin good positions or politicians will not answer the question. Top of it film stars are the best when in comes to know less about country, they will know who has produced a film or who directed or who was the actress in the fil but not the Prime Minister or Chief Minister. This is very sad, I was watching some chat show and there was a question about finance minister as to who is holding the ministry at present, that actress was not able to answer correctly and adding to that she said a name as FM who has never been part of cabinet. I hope we celebrate all these days with the logic as to why this is celebrated and not just distribute cloths and sweets to the childrens. We need to make every child of this country about the different days we celebrate. Have a great day ahead :)