If I were a baby again !
November 7, 2009
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Babies aren’t generally blessed with any kind of intelligence and all of us including you and me are no different. Since, we didn’t have a chance earlier, we can at least dream of something that we wished we had experienced or lived . Like food,clothing and shelter being the basic necessities of a man, the main necessities of a baby I feel are food , toys and vaccinations.
Food : With the advent of technology and Science, we are now able to do miracles in the field of medicine. So, it would be good , if it is possible to find what a child likes most like chocolate, potato wafers etc; so that the required vitamins or proteins should be fed into what they like most making them happy.
Toys : For any baby, toys and games form the basic priority . We live in a world where relationships between two adults are broken quite easily with the change in priorities and it is not surprising if baby’s priorities in toys change. Choice of toys in babies change frequently and its not possible for parents to provide the baby with every kind of toy. So, there must be Toy Libraries where babies can play for a stipulated time with the toy they like. At such places, babies play with great enthusiasm making them tired and making the job of the father/mother to make the child sleep easy. A happy baby becomes a matured individual.
Vaccinations : As a child, I used to have sleepless nights when I learn that I have to get inoculated . And the sour taste of vaccinations and other tablets made me go haywire at times( actually every time) . So , I feel all the medicines,vaccinations and inoculations ( if necessary) should take the form of chocolates and other confectionary causing no inconvenience to the baby. So, a baby must be fed with hepatitis chocolate,triple antigen ice cream and polio cake.
Poor babies , I pity them for not having the intelligence to communicate the bad taste of milk, their monotony with the same kind of toys and the mental trauma and emotional distress caused by taking a vaccination or inoculation.
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November 7, 2009 at 2:15 am
The one thing I wholeheartedly agree with is the bad taste of milk! I have since switched to soy!
November 7, 2009 at 5:41 am
Yeah.. Milk that too at a time, I was given plain hot milk..nothin short of hell ..
November 7, 2009 at 3:30 am
@Manohar,
A few of the things you state are factually wrong :
Lack of intelligence : Given the word baby gets used to refer to a day old to 2 year olds, to say they ‘lack intelligence’ is incorrect. They have intelligence commensurate with their age. Parents are even advised to talk to babies in the womb as many researches suggest it helps make a difference. Between 0-3 years the amount of development that happens in a baby , especially it’s brain is unfathomable. It is an amazing process filled with effort, tears and immense intelligence..
Food : Babies cannot tell you they do not like something ? Who says so ? If anything babies are notorious for spitting out what they do not like — they spit out more than they eat ; when their system does not agree with whatever is fed, they throw up — a very common feature in babies. When practical chewable vitamins — la ‘gummy bears’ are already available ; given it is important to ensure kids pick up the right eating habits early, your suggestion of potato wafer/ice cream/chocolate medicinal alternatives is bad. Junk food + medicine has bad written all over it. When the oral syrup is bad, fruit flavors to reduce the yuckiness has been used for a while now..
Toys : Toy Libraries are available in schools and gymborees ; ofcourse it comes at a price. Babies play with the same toys day after day — that is not monotony. Babies love routines ; when routines are followed it makes them feel safe. Have you heard of a ’security blanket’, some kids tag it along till they are 4-5.Many babies refuse something new as they do not trust it.They love and trust routines ; what you cann monotony is a routine.
Inoculations : Again your idea of pairing junk food + medicine is not done in inoculations as it is bad and it does not work. Not to mention all of what you mention is junk food. Injections/intravenous ensures the kid does not throw up the medication ; momentary pain/bad is acceptable, while medicine not retained or worse excess dosage due to repeated attempts when they throw up has more serious consequences that the sour taste in the mouth. Add to that bad taste in medications teaches a life lesson — not all things in life is sugar coated and you need to let your kid take his/her share of pains
A child needs love and a safe environment for it to develop and grow. It needs a routine filled with positive re-inforcements that conveys safety to it’s little brain.The process is humbling and amazing.
I can go on, but you get the drift. I need to respectfully disagree with a majority of your post . Sorry.
November 7, 2009 at 5:44 am
Mr Madhu,
U need not be sorry for not having agreed to my post..u have an opinion, I respect it.
And I agree with every point that u have made in the comment, but i was just trying to present in a different way..Anywayz this is my perspective..im happy that I have penned down, whatever I thought. pls dont be sorry .. Regards ..manohar
November 8, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Manohar, Sorry if it came across strongly. Like I ended I , unfortunately as a parent, think some of the facts mentioned were wrong and impractical and this was not satire/humour.
Introspecting, I do feel I did go overboard and should have probably found you Contact-me and mailed that than leave it in the comments. My apologies for that..
Good Luck..
November 7, 2009 at 3:04 pm
OMG! It’s a blog post!!!! Give the author a break! We aren’t writing for “Nature” here you know!
No offense!
November 7, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Sai: The above comment wasn’t directed at you!!!
@Indimag: Now, don’t go reporting my blog as spam!!!!
Just kidding!
November 8, 2009 at 5:05 am
Thanx for coming to my rescue anna..I was brooding over what I have written to invte a comment of such magnitude Aywayx it shud have broken a few records as far as length of comment is concerned
November 8, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Honestly, none taken Aneet
November 8, 2009 at 9:03 pm
@Sai:
Dude! I wasn’t rescuing anyone!!! You didn’t need rescuing, you were doing quite well on your own.
If anyone needs rescuing it’s probably me: I am sure there’s a sniper outside my house poised to get a head shot!
November 7, 2009 at 8:59 am
I liked your idea of innovating on the inoculation methods …its really painful and tastes bad as well….. yuck…
November 7, 2009 at 11:27 am
Thanq nice that u have liked the idea
November 8, 2009 at 5:02 am
Yeah inoculation is painful. I suffer from goosebumps when I think of it
November 7, 2009 at 12:38 pm
” it would be good , if it is possible to find what a child likes most like chocolate, potato wafers etc;”
A lot of it depends on the advertisements. Remember Ruffles ad?
November 8, 2009 at 5:02 am
I dont remember the ad. But thats innovative advertising
November 7, 2009 at 2:19 pm
milk..you are right ..no child now drinks milk with happy face
good post
November 8, 2009 at 5:03 am
Milk.. Milk sucks big time and the hot milk with excessive sugar and so called chocolate setting the tone for the day.. nothing can be more painful..
November 7, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Wow!! Toy Libraries, Proteins, vitamins in wafers and hepatitis chocolate,triple antigen ice cream and polio cake….damn creative!!
Liked the idea and hope these become a reality!!
November 8, 2009 at 5:04 am
Thanq shilpa..nice that u have liked my idea.. Hopefully another brown revolution on its way
November 7, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Hi…saimanohar… good one… so as a kiddo u need everything to be sweet and tasty?? he..he.. good… nice one.. all the best ….
November 8, 2009 at 5:07 am
As a kid, I remember very few instances of havin a chocolate, icecream or a soft drink.. I was literally deprived of chocolates.. that must have been the brain child for my creation..
November 7, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Kaka you seem to be on a roll these days …. Great going… and I think its time perhaps you should remove the spch badge with getting enough attention to the blog
November 8, 2009 at 5:07 am
Thanq very much.. very nice that u have liked it.. I wish to see ur participation some day..
November 8, 2009 at 6:34 pm
EVen I hated milk when I was a kid! But my nephew (2 years old) likes milk so much! I see him like an alien!!
I still fear syringes!! What phobia is that?!
Inoculation!
November 9, 2009 at 5:53 am
All the bloggers have a phobia for milk.. It seems lioke no one as a child liked milk..
November 9, 2009 at 7:05 am
This is soooo true “As a child, I used to have sleepless nights when I learn that I have to get inoculated . “.. I used to be soo scared of those injections
And so true babies have a hard time communicating. Whether they are hungry or thirsty, they have a hard time communicating. Lovely post 
November 9, 2009 at 7:08 am
Thanq for dropping by.. nice that u have liked my post
November 9, 2009 at 8:02 am
Hi,,,
I liked the innovative and creative flavours, but the comprehensiveness and pragmatic relevance is missing a bit. Else, it is a nice post
November 9, 2009 at 8:13 am
thanx .. pragmatic relevance isnt essential for a blog.. after all its my opinion..
November 9, 2009 at 9:03 am
healthy chocolates n chips : my dream
nice one
November 9, 2009 at 9:48 am
@Naveen Hope it becomes a reality some day..
@Karthik Thanq very much.. Nice that u have liked it..
November 9, 2009 at 9:21 am
“hepatitis chocolate,triple antigen ice cream and polio cake” lol…
I wish these things were invented when I was a baby. 
Lovely write-up! Enjoyed it very much.
All the best!
November 9, 2009 at 10:28 am
Thanx karthik for d comment.. Nic ethat u have liked the idea
November 9, 2009 at 11:05 am
Happiness of baby seems to be the central idea.. I appreciate it.
November 9, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Yes boss, and thanq very much for understanding the crux.. thanq very much again..
November 9, 2009 at 11:05 am
Nice analysis buddy! You are absolutely right with this! Babies are an epitome of innocence so much so that they don’t even realize what is happening with them! Poor babies! Nice one!
November 9, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Hopefully babies in the future wont be in this league of childish innocence.. hope things change for better
November 9, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Creative post. Nice to have medicated chocolates
November 10, 2009 at 12:52 am
Yeah medicated chocolates shud be the order of the day
November 9, 2009 at 4:41 pm
There is a message in the ludicrous hyperbole that my blog aspires for!
November 10, 2009 at 12:52 am
Ill read it again.. but somehow my dumb mind isnt able to catch that msg
November 10, 2009 at 4:38 pm
A really different take you have here…toy library in particular i feel must happen in sometime..rest of the things are really creative..how about polio cake..!!i want one..
November 11, 2009 at 4:54 am
Ys boss, a baby should not suffer from monotony wid the toys as they suffer from monotony of seeing the same faces again and again
November 11, 2009 at 4:51 pm
An interesting post Sai.. U picked up the points no one thought about.. And well it created quite a debate.. But i feel both u nd madhu r right in ur assertions, its just tht u two r luking at things frm diffrnt prspectives
November 12, 2009 at 7:39 am
thanx vipul for acknowledging my post and a blog cant be wrong for most of d times.. he has his opinion ..I have mine.. His was in a bit serious tone..I was rather trying to be funny .. So no offence at all.. Im happy that I did my part for being in d marathon
November 9, 2009 at 5:57 am
Mr.Madhu, no apologies, I feel My blog has been fortunate to get a comment form a caring and affectionate father.. your comment is the true reflection of how a child feels as u see ur child go thru the same process.. I must have been a bit sensitive for the child..But this is what I think. No apologies pls.. and thanx fopr dropping by.. and no hard feelings too.. Im appy that ur comment was in an emotional and sensitive tone..