Nature of Children

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

The nature of children is quite unique and odd which we can find much different according to time and context. They have performed quite unique behaviors which we can’t guess in normal situation. The nature of children makes me puzzle and I have even learnt some lesson from them. The thing which we see impossible would be done by the children with their own style.

I am a school teacher so I have seen such different activities of them. I went school at 8.00am yesterday and spent sometimes in office reading newspaper and doing some official works. It was raining; sometimes it stopped and sometimes it was drizzling. As the weather was uneven we should look after the children neither would they play in the water ignoring the harmful effects from it. The children take water and mud as their friends which aren’t liked by adults. The children have got much pleasure and they feel joyous to play with these things. They don’t care what would happen rather they do what they have seen.

Child psychologists proved that children can think one thing at a time. It comes true when I observed the nature of children. I had been staying in the ground taking umbrella and asked all the students to stay inside class room. Some of them stayed inside the room but some of them had been looking at me only. I thought they had been waiting chance to come out and play in the rain.

I had been warning one of the students that he couldn’t go to the vehicle from the mud which was heaped in the ground. We have got mud heaped in the ground for construction. Despite my warning the boy had gone from the mud and his leg was sunk down. He couldn’t pull his shoes out which was left in the mud and I had to go to take that out.

It made me think that the boy had seen only the vehicle. He thought to reach at first than other friends so he had run like that. Since he had targeted to go to the vehicle, he couldn’t think about other things. He had done it so spontaneously that made me realize that children are too much innocent and emotional. The thing which we take impossible would be possible by them. They have done it all of a sudden; neither can we think; nor can we do.

So the behavior of the children made me puzzle that they are emotional rather than careless. They have the habit of doing anything at any cost what they have thought. I have seen that class one student has competed with the class five student. They have the sense that they shouldn’t be loser among others. It reflects the childish nature. Neither they know the future consequence nor do they care about their condition. They just think about present and fight for that so that they are living carefree life.

Neither do they have enmity, nor do they have friendship with their colleagues. Though they fight today, they would be friends tomorrow. They have the habit of forgetting enmity among them so they always remain happy and friendly. They don’t mind what their friends have done. If someone beat them, they will return that either they may be weak or strong. So the nature of children is unique, interesting, odd, and so on.

The thing which we think impossible can be possible to them. If they see something they do that without thinking about the future consequence. They have the habit of doing it so they have proved themselves as the courageous or adventurous man among his/her friends. Hence the habit of children guides adults as William Wordsworth quoted “child is father of the man”.