Goosebumps

"What starts with C ends with W and means staff?", he said excitedly. CREW, the elder daughter replied after a little humming.

Not bad, I said. The girl looked not more than 10 but I wasn't expecting her to say the answer so quickly.

"What starts with A ends with D and means climb?, he questioned after few seconds. The boy stammered ascence, ascence, ascend....yeah!! ascend. He repeated it couple of times more to be sure he gets it right.

"Brilliant", the father said excitedly.

"Brilliant", I thought.

I could hear them really well. They're sitting in the front row, 6-7 year old boy, 10-12 girl, sitting patiently, an un-match to their age. Seat belts on and sometimes looking peeking outside the window.

It made apparent, it wasn't their first flight.

Through out the journey the father kept asking questions based on the announcements both he and the children would have heard equally. Though they wouldn't comprehended them equivalent.

That was such an amazing way to teach kids, this won't make them bibliographic, but this will make them sharp, very sharp.

They were picking up things they're hearing for the first time. All the time, I kept noticing the brilliance of the father who kept thinking a way to ask a puzzle not making it monotonous, repetitive or dull and the kids do learn something, not just catch a flight announcement.

Being a parent demands much more than changing diapers and singing lullaby. If you can make a crying baby sleep, you have not achieved the best in your life. There is much more to kids than life. They are so special that they demand to be raised to be the humans you always want them to be.

I want my son to be in Army, purely because I couldn't do it.
I want my son to be a sportsman, purely because I couldn't do it.
I want him to be a musician............
I want.......

Nothing matters, what you want. What you should, is what matters.

You should be a parent you can be proud of. Not just few years till they start to go school....and not even till they get married ...but till you can't be with them any further.

Everyone wants to be a perfect parent, but I don't know how many become one.
I want to be a perfect parent, but I am dead scared, I don't have that in me to be one.

The father in the flight was absolute brilliant, he was making his kids learn, while they thought they were playing( or the brother and sister thought they were competing, another brilliance), and it would take them years to understand what their father turned them into and by that time it will be mission accomplished.

This is sheer brilliance. I wish I could do that when I have kids. I just don't want to be father who can play cricket with his kids or drive them to school or attend their teacher's meeting.

I want to be a parent, rather be a father.

I want to raise my kids no different than others, yet teach them how to be a good human being, love their country and respect other humans.

But with all that I want them to have the most amazing time of their life, after taking birth.

I understand it demands lot more than money to become a parent, it demands more than strong shoulders to become a parent and it demands much more than family pressure to become a parent.

I want to be one sometimes soon, but I don't think I am ready to raise my kids the way I can be proud of. Money is not important, it never was, belief is.

and right now I am dead scared of failure. I am not that strong to make a parent right now and I don't see myself becoming one soon...

I will take my time, few more years I think, but it is something I can't play with.

As Clive Owen brilliantly delivered this line in one of my favorite movies..

"I will walk out that door, when I am good and ready"