Few days back, I read an article wherein a father wrote letters to his son from the time his son was born. He wrote about things he could not explain or describe to his son who was too small then. I found this idea quite fascinating and thought that I should write to my son Ved (Ved Tripathi) about everything that he cannot really understand today (He is 3yrs and 10 days today) or would not remember in future. When he grows up and read these letter, I am hoping that he will like reading and understand the world we lived in and brought him up.
I do not really remember anything from my childhood. I have very vague and broken memories of school days, playing with friends in colony, hanging out with some close school friends. There are hardly any pictures (in fact none that I have now) of my school days. I can blame it to technology but still I think my childhood was not that interesting enough that I could remember. This is one more reason that I want to write these letters to Ved so that even if he does not remember things from his childhood, these letters will tell him about it.
The first few years (may be up to 10 years I guess) are quite interesting as a parent seeing a child grow. All the phases of childhood has its own challenges and its own pleasure. But, These initial years are which I think a parent will never forget and a child may not remember.
I have told Anshu (my wife, Ved's mom) about this and she is quite excited about it, but I do not want to show her the contents just yet.
I do not really remember anything from my childhood. I have very vague and broken memories of school days, playing with friends in colony, hanging out with some close school friends. There are hardly any pictures (in fact none that I have now) of my school days. I can blame it to technology but still I think my childhood was not that interesting enough that I could remember. This is one more reason that I want to write these letters to Ved so that even if he does not remember things from his childhood, these letters will tell him about it.
The first few years (may be up to 10 years I guess) are quite interesting as a parent seeing a child grow. All the phases of childhood has its own challenges and its own pleasure. But, These initial years are which I think a parent will never forget and a child may not remember.
I have told Anshu (my wife, Ved's mom) about this and she is quite excited about it, but I do not want to show her the contents just yet.
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