these kids..

Kids nowadays are so eager to grow up, try on grown-up things, clothes behaviors, play grown-up roles, etc. Can’t they be kids and enjoy the liberty of it? Explore and learn more of their age-appropriate games which they would eventually miss when they grow up. Fly kites this summer, run along the riverside, play takyang, patintero on the street, run in the streets, get dirtied, etc. There’s fun being a kid and not just try to relive those days when they are grown up already. I pity girls wearing heeled sandals and shoes as they’ll have difficulty running when they want to run and if they could run, it’ll hurt their feet as well. I pity girls wearing tubes, not because I can’t dare to wear one but because their delicate body needs protection. I pity girls painted on make-up even just going to the malls, they are beautiful and need not cover their little, cute faces with cosmetics. I pity boys who were confined to computer games at home when they could have run around and play with their neighbors or playmates or siblings. They could have practiced their balance by playing some tag or walking along a level line and makae a game on it. In that way, they could develop more of their muscles at an early age, develop social skills and any other aspects as well, further logical and cognitive skills at their age maybe.

Wish they won’t grow up so fast that they’ll miss some of the things we used to enjoy at their age. Society-wise, there are just some things which can’t be done anymore. But it should not be a hindrance to deprive the kids with these developmentally important plays in their young age.

* a close-similar article is also posted in wanderer's blog.