Funny sights... R-City Mall

Folks,

 

Careful what you wish for, I have started typing for the fun of typing :P

 

I had gone shopping with Ayesha, more like tagged along with her while she decided what she wanted to buy. While waiting I noticed two ladies and a baby girl with them. The girl and her mother were from the north east India. This has no relevance to what I noticed and could be true of any Indian family or any family for that matter.

 

While waiting for her friend to try out clothes, the kid who I must say was dressed in a shiny blue dress which is peculiar of the Japanese/ Chinese, I believe it was like a Chinese traditional dress, but beautiful flowers inlayed into the dress. The kid was hyper active and was not in the mood to sit and do nothing. She was constantly moving around and trying to explore and entertain herself. This was driving her mother crazy and she was continually telling her to sit down and not make a mess.

I was happily sitting and smiling at the situation, the girl however, started lying on the floor, touching the floor. This I think drove the mother over and she lost her patience with her daughter. The initial ploy she used was to threaten her by calling their doctor. This seemed to work initially cause I think the girl was genuinely scared of going to the doctor and tried to stop her mother. However, within 2 minutes the girl was back to her antics and took an adult’s dress and ran into one of the changing rooms. 
 
The mother finally got very annoyed, and asked the store attendant that if the “dark room” (Janitor Room) is for keeping naughty kids locked while the parents shopped. The store attendant actually said yes. I must say I was very impressed by how the attendant was able to catch up to the ploy or perhaps since the group was there for long, she too had observed the mother’s pain and sympathized with her.
 
However, the threat to lock the girl into the “dark room” was the killing blow. The girl quietly came and sat onto the cushion next to me and was tear eyed. The girl was hurt that her mother had contemplated throwing her into a dark room. However, as soon as the mother saw her kid crying she started to use logic, which I must say was very funny. The exact words were: “I did not say to lock you into the dark room, I asked them that do they lock in naughty kids into the room. You are not a naughty girl naa, you do not like dark rooms naa!!!”
 
Ayesha had made her decision for purchase by then and I left smiling at the funny course of events I was witness to.
 
For a moment I was impressed by the sheer talking skills displayed by the kid, the use of English, her native tongue as well as some Hindi. On the other hand I was not happy with the arm twisting tactics that the mother was using, however, I did not judge thinking she must have had a really long day and the kid was very restless. 
 
This brings me to an interesting query that flashed across my brain – what are the kids being taught today. They are smarter and have greater comprehension of the world around them, they talk smarter, understand a lot more, explore a lot more – but what is all this advanced intelligence costing them. The kid did not seem to respect her mother, she was slapping and scratching her mother and making a face. I somehow was surprised by that behavior of the kid…