July 10 2017
Years ago, when the son was still in school, we attended a parenting workshop conducted there. The Principal and the Chairman were the moderators at the workshop.
At one point, the Chairman said, "dekhiye zamana kaise badal gaya hai. aap aap ke dada dadi, naana nani se kuch sawal karte hain, ve apne tajurbe se , uss sawal ka hal bataate the. aap apne mata pita se koi hal chahte, ve koi kitaab padhke aap ko samjhaa dete. aur aaj aaplog.. aap ke bachhe koi sawal karte hain toh aap google kar k uss shanka ka nirasan karte hain'
I had liked this remark of his, and this is all i have remembered of that workshop!
The son is now a 23 yr old, working in another city and is home now, on a 3 day break.
a fortnight ago, he had gone skydiving, and while landing, ,maneuvering the parachute, he missed the runway by a couple of feet , and landed in the bushes around there!
It was one thorny bush and he was bruised.
after about 2 days, he realized that one of his fingers throbbed badly.. the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with it. It was only on Friday as he was leaving fr Mumbai, that he realized a thorn was probably embedded inside.
Today I told him enough was enough and that either me or my father would take care of that thorn.
when i was little, on at least 2 occasions, i had seen my dad, remove a teeny weeny splinter or a thorn frm my finger, using nothing more than a needle. He would hold it over a naked flame till it was red and he was satisfied it was sterilized enough. a bit of antiseptic and a bit of surgical cotton was all that he used.
today i asked dad to take a look at the boy's finger. while dad was examining it, i decided to take things in my own hands and sterilized a needle just as i seen him do.
the boy decided to do the extraction himself and while the two of us were at it, the daughter came in laughing hard.
"Ajja is looking up youtube" she said.
we were amused but we had a job on hand.. probe, probe we went at the finger, ..and we got the thorn out. the son immediately laid the dark thorn on a small bed of cotton and busied himself taking pictures of that foreign body which had made home inside him.
Just then my 81 year young dad entered the room and triumphantly said, "there was no need for all this.. u should have just sprinkled a bit of baking soda on it. The thorn /splinter would have come out easily, I looked up the internet'!
i was smiling at the irony of the whole situation when i heard my son remark... that works only when it is a fresh injury!🙈🙈🙈
Years ago, when the son was still in school, we attended a parenting workshop conducted there. The Principal and the Chairman were the moderators at the workshop.
At one point, the Chairman said, "dekhiye zamana kaise badal gaya hai. aap aap ke dada dadi, naana nani se kuch sawal karte hain, ve apne tajurbe se , uss sawal ka hal bataate the. aap apne mata pita se koi hal chahte, ve koi kitaab padhke aap ko samjhaa dete. aur aaj aaplog.. aap ke bachhe koi sawal karte hain toh aap google kar k uss shanka ka nirasan karte hain'
I had liked this remark of his, and this is all i have remembered of that workshop!
The son is now a 23 yr old, working in another city and is home now, on a 3 day break.
a fortnight ago, he had gone skydiving, and while landing, ,maneuvering the parachute, he missed the runway by a couple of feet , and landed in the bushes around there!
It was one thorny bush and he was bruised.
after about 2 days, he realized that one of his fingers throbbed badly.. the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with it. It was only on Friday as he was leaving fr Mumbai, that he realized a thorn was probably embedded inside.
Today I told him enough was enough and that either me or my father would take care of that thorn.
when i was little, on at least 2 occasions, i had seen my dad, remove a teeny weeny splinter or a thorn frm my finger, using nothing more than a needle. He would hold it over a naked flame till it was red and he was satisfied it was sterilized enough. a bit of antiseptic and a bit of surgical cotton was all that he used.
today i asked dad to take a look at the boy's finger. while dad was examining it, i decided to take things in my own hands and sterilized a needle just as i seen him do.
the boy decided to do the extraction himself and while the two of us were at it, the daughter came in laughing hard.
"Ajja is looking up youtube" she said.
we were amused but we had a job on hand.. probe, probe we went at the finger, ..and we got the thorn out. the son immediately laid the dark thorn on a small bed of cotton and busied himself taking pictures of that foreign body which had made home inside him.
Just then my 81 year young dad entered the room and triumphantly said, "there was no need for all this.. u should have just sprinkled a bit of baking soda on it. The thorn /splinter would have come out easily, I looked up the internet'!
i was smiling at the irony of the whole situation when i heard my son remark... that works only when it is a fresh injury!🙈🙈🙈
