Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Aiza's daily life

By Each passing day, she – Aiza is turning mature, understanding, cooperative, and coordinative toward her brother [Zarak Khan] and Father in particular and, I would say she is going a bit in competition with her mother, for no reason. But generally, she is touchier to her, in many other cases.

During COVID-19 her daily routine was abrupted to an extent, which is getting back on track in Post COVID-19. She is wakes-up by 7 am, get prepared for school, hang her bags on the shoulder, and leave for school with her Mother [ Her mother looks after her school e.g dropping, picking from school, helping her in Homework, Lunch-box and her hygiene things]. She stays in school for almost 4 hours [Five days a week] and come back with a lot of stories from school.

There were days when I used to drop and pick her from school and on the way, we used to sit somewhere on the bank of road and she used to narrate me so many stories happened with her in school.

One of her stories she narrated upon returning home from School this Monday is: That day she had Chicken-Parata in lunch-box, splatted in two parts. Upon opening the Lunch-box during the break, her colleagues without asking her, taken half of her Parata, and she did not resist it. She is a sensitive person when it comes to deal with insensitive people. She collects so many contents upon returning from school.  Why her parents don’t teach her not to snatch food from colleagues, Aiza stated.

Previously, her Ma’am / Class-teacher used to eat half of her food and forced her no to tell her parents, and, believe you me that is what we come to know very much later, but by then she had passed to another class [Nursery]  

Sometime she comes with so interesting stories and narrates me at night when I return home after my office and interestingly, we make fun of those stories.

Anyway, when she comes back from School, eat her lunch again, and then start home- working, as she is so much excited and overwhelmed by her new books, note-books, work-books, new classmates, and class-teacher. She takes it seriously and respond well to the question posed on her when I discuss things with her.

Interestingly she has found-out some friends around the vicinity and they play well in the park after 5 PM. She comes back to eat her dinner and sleep earlier to get-up the next morning. I’m considering myself a lucky father to deal with a sensitive kid and we both are growing up very sophisticatedly in every walk of life.







 

 

 

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Covid-19 and Aiza Khan

As like other school-going-kids across the globe, Aiza has also been one among those, to stay home. She stayed home for almost 7 months, which has ruined her daily routine, food routine, home-work, and other co-curricular activities. 

Sleeping late at night, getting up late in the daytime, getting more irritating, and less-cooperative with siblings [Zarak Khan]. Though her mother supported her in home-work that was a lesser-effective effort. I believe that parents play a specific role to educate and groom the kids, that's why I don't believe in home-schooling. Yes, this would have been a different case if we setup-ed family trips/traveling across the country during the Lock-down in the country. The misfortune was that I did not have a car during the Lock-down era. 

I have tried to engage her in some healthy activities, such as how to cooperate with siblings [Zarak], but that too did not work. I have tried to engage her in filming videos, but that too works initially, not in the later phase, she got fed-up. Though on strong insist she comes up with few videos on TikTok, which I will try to put her around.  

The only characteristic I have been observing in her personality built, she is advising/suggesting us, when called or uncalled. For instance Dad, why don't you buy this car, Father, I like you to bring me this thing. I tried to make her sit with me on the bank of roads, street, tried to engage her in stories, which somehow worked too. 

Her urge towards Parks, traveling, outing in general for food has built faster, as compared to pre-COVID-19. During this Covid-19 Aiza discovered Khan-Pur dam, Charsadda, Mingora Swat, multiple parks, and parks around the sector. 


















Friday, January 31, 2020

Happy 5th Birthday to Aiza Khan


I am really not prepared mentally and time passes like on the speed of velocity. Just five years back I was Just married, I just had a wife and that’s it. You extended my family by being with your existence. Exactly five years back I become a father and that is too of a daughter, what else could be more joyful and fantastic than this. I was more excited to have a daughter who I wanted to grow her my way. When I say raising her my way seems a bit imposing but I wanted her to grow her and that is my way.

I am getting successful up-to 75% that I have not snatched her childhood, did not put her in school at an early age and did not put her in hot water. Made her get up when she completes her sleep and so on.




These five years have been so wonderful that I can’t even begin to imagine about, I have tried my extreme level best to fulfil your small and tiny wishes, such as getting Dunk & Donut, give your dolls, take you out to Park and let you watch her choice of the cartoon. How can I forget to mention that making your TikTok is another level of joy? Your posing for a picture is out of my words.

Today you turned five and celebrated your birth in Lahore with your grandees, of course, I missed your birthday, been not able to hug you, but I wish you many returns of the day.

Aiza I will never ever forget that you made me a father. You taught me management, patience, built my capacity and made me feel to be the friend of yours

Peace be upon you, my love