Article on Summer vacation : losing their charm
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I have an annual two month-long summer vacation. It is usually from mid-May to mid-July. This is the time when the temperature in Delhi, the city where I live, goes past forty degrees Celsius. It is welcome to stay indoors during holidays in daytime when it is very hot. I spend the mornings and evenings doing interesting activities that I otherwise cannot engage in when I have to go to school. I go for a jog and also do yoga in the mornings, and play cricket in the evenings. I also love to read, and enjoy thriller and detective stories.
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In the summers, city children are made to undertake so many recreational activities, it is as though they are inmates of Tihar jail. They learn painting, origami, pottery, embroidery, music, karate and sports. Also, chocolate-making. It is a consequence of a colonial idea called the summer vacation. Parents are skilled in tormenting schools to achieve their ends but they have not moved to abolish the two-month-long break that takes summer, merely a season, too seriously.
Parents have not killed the summer vacation probably because they do not wish to appear as though they do not want to spend time with their children. It is inauspicious. Instead, in the summers they contribute to a huge cash-economy market for character-building activities. This is partly to get rid of their children for a few hours every day, and partly to prepare them for the serious business of life. An objective of a good family, after all, is to prepare its children to be better than a majority of the world’s children.
That children must do something useful with their time is part of the canon of modern parenting. Also that everything the child does has to be laced with the sugar of entertainment. As a result, children are constantly entertained, with only the degree changing, and they have come to expect life to be ceaselessly entertaining. But then there are many beautiful things in life that have to begin in tedium. Tedium has to be first given a chance.