Delhi Public School Surat

My day starts with the golden rays of the sun entering my room, and I think those rays are the only ones that do not pressurize me, because after that moment, my mother enters the room! The first thing I always hear is, “You scored low marks in Maths, so first thing after taking a bath you have to practise Maths.” Then, when I go to my dad, he asks “How much did you study yesterday?” But how I wish my father would ask instead: “Did you at least try to improve your weak subject?” I’m sure these soft words would refresh my bleak life.

Then, my sister asks, “Rashmi, did you learn the Chemistry chapter we have for the test today? I am sure you will score less than me.” At this moment, tears roll down my eyes but people laugh and say, I only know how to cry.

When I return home from school, I expect my parents to ask, “How was your day?” However, they say, “How much did you score?” thus, I am always pressurized by my parents, whom I expect to be my best friends. This depresses me and affects my studies. But I still hope that someday my parents come to know that ‘being a child is no child’s play’.

Rashmi Mohindra

Parental pressures are a big harassment for all children. Parents often keep pressurizing their children on the same matters. The first priority of parents is exams and marks. They always keep expecting high marks out of children. The word ‘marks’ keeps echoing in a child’s ears the whole of school life.

I sometimes feel so over burdened with their wishes and goals on my shoulders. But then, like the two sides of a coin it also has a positive side. If the parents pressurize their children on a certain matter, children actually start obeying them out of the fear of emotional blackmail, an art perfected by most parents. My parents keep telling me not to go out, not to chat with friends, to wake up early in the morning and study, etc.

Now, how can one survive with all these restrictions and rules? Every parent seems always to want that ‘my child’ should excel in all fields of life, whether it be sports, academics, you name it. Sometimes, they really crush out their child’s ambitions and dreams. But now, for me, these parental pressures are becoming such a harassment that I’m finished with fulfilling their wishes any more.

Sunanda Narwani