Learning by watching

This is the youngest to of the squirrels in our garden that I have been following up for the last two months. 

Today, I noticed at its best with all its gymnastic positions on a trunk of a coconut tree, fairly tall. It was making frequent up and down journeys on the trunk in a care free mood.  

I have spent over an hour today and sometimes more than than that during the last two months. Every sighting of this squirrel gave me an opportunity to know a little more about the way a squirrel grows up to be an adult squirrel. 

Often hours of observation is foundational to learn different aspects of child development.

Let me introduce this blog spot for those who are interested in different aspects of child development. 

Having spent thirty eight years out of forty years of my career in Paediatrics,  it is a good time to reflect on these years of learning, growing and understanding.

My moderate estimate is that I would have had the privilege of welcoming about 18 thousand families and children for consultation, during my association with Ashirvad Child Development and Research Centre, Chennai; Christian Medical college, Vellore;  Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences and now with M.O.S.C. Medical college, Kolenchey.

Each of these consultations would have been more than just diagnostic or neuro-developmental intervention planning. Most of them would have been meetings of significance. As I hear from families after twenty years or more years after  their first visit, which is more frequent of late, I realise how the conversations, interactions or problem solving journeys have born some fruits in their lives.  I have had siblings and parents acknowledging and thanking me for such occasions of turning points in their lives.

Let me dedicate this blog spot to families and children who nurtured me in my journey through the mosaic of child development.  

I offer this as an interactive forum for professionals, parents and children.

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)