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The other day, my 12 year old brother comes to me and genuinely pleads" bhai can I take the mobile phone to school ?“
Though I was not flabbergasted with that request, but it just made me wonder did I ever had the audacity to actually go in front of my parents and ask them for something so small, even though I did my schooling from one of the best schools of the country, in New Delhi.

A child requesting his parents for a mobile phone is not a big deal in today's changing times, but the point to be pondered upon here is why the child is making such requests.

Even if one student brings a mobile phone to the school the status quotient in the peers becomes so high that within a span of one week the whole class carries a mobile phone and that too without the notice of teachers.

Is it so unsafe today that students who travel in the school buses have to carry mobiles, in case they face an emergency ? Or the parents suddenly fell so much in love with their children that after every single hour they end up calling their children asking them whether the class was good or bad or the children are fine and not undergoing any sorts of loose motions or pain in their stomach ?
Then why it becomes necessary for the parents to give mobile phones to their young children when they are coming to a social place like school ?
Don’t the schools have telephones or the teachers do not support the children when they are in any kind of need ?

Just because you love your children doesn’t mean that you are going to fulfill their every demand which may be absolutely out of the place at a certain point of time .
The scientific studies show that prolong use of mobile is bad for health. We the elders dint start using mobiles form that small age and still it is harmful for us in the longer run, think about the children !!

Twelve years of age a child is yet to enter the teens, the adolescence period has just begun and we are not supposed to ease their paths into the darker directions. At such an age even the concept of girlfriends and boyfriends isn’t a big deal for these children because the society is like that where the younger ones observe their elder siblings having long chats on the mobiles or the internet, which may be with any person for that matter, what really matters here is that what this young child grasping from his observations. They are our responsibilities and we are the craftsmen who are designing a new individual who is fit for the difficult world of tomorrow.

Everything has a right time, We don't hand over a tricycle two a one year old and make him ride it, just keeping in mind that on fine day the kid has to ride it, the same is with the mobiles !

The parents have to make sure that their child is prepared to handle such a device and is mature enough to take the responsibility of it rather than just using it as a status symbol, which is not at all his but of his parents .

Why not make him realize the values of things in life rather than serving him on a silver platter which he might just throw away in a course of time not realizing the worth of it !

What really adds to the scenario is the impact it has on the child’s attitude towards others around him, these small children tend to follow the child who carries a mobile, and just through his possessions he becomes the leader of the group and his friends surround him coz of his belongings and not for what HE is! Do we wish our child to develop friends who are materialistic or to have friends whom he has chosen through his values than by our ornaments.

Let’s make our children rich with the values which we inculcate in them rather with the possessions with which we present them. Let’s make them themselves.