Unexpected holidays!!!!

P's school is closed for a week as a precautionary measure. Thanks to the parents who are in constant panic. No, it is not in velachery but in Mylapore. Suddenly the suburban has umpteen hits in google pages and especially Akshaya matriculation school, were the poor boy studied. My heart goes to the parents who are quarantined in the hospital. Their plight is unimaginable with having lost one child and another with the symptoms in the hospital. My humble prayers to God to give them the mental strength to handle this.

Suddenly all the parents are worried if the child gets cold, cough or fever, though there is nil chance of communicating the disease. It is called parenting psychology , i suppose. Even i didn't take my kid to the dance class and thanks to yesterday's program conducted by VIJAY TV, i didn't send my kid to school today. Though it was sheer co-incidence , iam relieved that he stayed home. Or else, i would have been worried.

But, yesterdays program kindled other kind of worries. The program was a concert by Aruna Sairam on Lord krishna for Vijay Tv with hundreds of school children dressed as krishna. Though only a selected few were made to sit on the stage, the other children were given considerable coverage. They say that the whole concept was to capture the childrens "kurumbu" who are dressed as krishna. But, to me it was more of cost minimisation project with full publicity. Cos, the parents had taken utmost care with the dressing and makeup with the hope that their wards would be aired on the TV . So, the make up cost and organisation part were delegated to the parents and the concerned school authorities. Second , is the publicity part which would be also taken care by the parents by spreading word of mouth of the program in which the little ones were expected to be captured. Iam no exception to this.

But, the best and the saving part was the children had fun, the whole evening and not to mention the dressing part. My kid hated the first few hours where i cajoled , scolded , begged him to wear the accessories. He cooperated with the make-up part but it became futile once his eyes filled up when i asked him to wear those earrings (only pressing type). So, i immediately dropped and saved the rest of the make-up.

Coming to the program, it was fantastically conceptualised with aruna sairam at her best. She was able to share a rapport with all the hundreds of the children and was able to make them sing and dance. Her numbers were well chosen with a mixture of melody as well fast numbers. If , i write i may face legal proceedings also. The organiser and the producer were constantly making appeals to the parents not to record the proceedings in their mobile phone / handy cam / stills in their camera.

The moment P got his gift(usual mysurpa from krishna sweets and the biscuits) he impatiently removed everything right in the hall and proceeded to wear his own clothes.

Its a miracle that he agreed to wear those things in the first place, and it shows my ingratitude that i complain now. ( :((( parental psychology)