WHY SHOULD CHILDREN GROW IN A JOINT FAMILY

Joint families nowadays are increasingly growing less in numbers .The growth and development of children in early age completely depends on adults /family who take care of them.There is a versatile growth of a child when he is grown up in a joint family.There is more environment to play with more number of people thus making more time to let them engage with members with various ways to co operate .We can predict very easily how a child becomes more joyful and happier being around other children or members of the family.Children love to go outside, play with others , and its even more pleasing for them when they find other kids with them.The perk of being in a joint family is there are other kids as well to play with, thus elders at home find extra time to do other works since children would be busy with themselves playing .

As a parent,we are always curious about searching for best resources to engage our children , we are searching how they can learn .

The advantages of having joint family for kids :

1) An extended support

The best gift for a child is not the toys and building blocks or clothes, its a joint family with many members and kids.There is nothing joyful for a child to pass his time with kids than any other materialistic things.

2) Less technology impact

Nowadays children are mostly affected by mobile phones and video games. They have become so much addicted to tech materials specially mobile phones that they rely upon these phones even for their home works .Since most of the families have turned into nuclear families, family members also find easier to give mobile phones to kids and make them busy with those stuffs.Because there is nobody at home to play with the kids and somehow mother feels having more space when giving a mobile phone to her kid and relax for a while. But it is a warning sign for family that those mobile phones are actually hampering kid”s mental development, it is narrowing his mind to grow and communicate with outside environment.

3)Act of sharing

In today"s generation, it is less found a child sharing things with others.Child gets irritated or doesn't prefer his/her stuffs being shared by any other child. However, joint families help in seeding the culture in child on act of sharing, giving and caring.Children nowadays are very very possessive , they even don't prefer their parents take any other child. In some way, this is also due to how they have been looking at their parents. In single families, the single child is everyone"s cup of tea, that child is cared with so much love and attention by everyone that later the child starts becoming possessive on his rights of getting loved .Thus, sharing will be the criminal act for that child, he will never let any other child take his stuffs , and even the part of love family has been providing him.

4)Art of communication

Have we ever tried to recall our childhood memories, about how we have played at the yards with other neighborhood kids.We can notice complete difference between how a child five years ago have grown and a child growing today. We, in those days played with marble, stones and papers with cousins in the family, and now a child can stay calm whole day with a mobile in his hand or a good cartoon movie in tv/laptop. The truth cannot be hidden that a child today is talented and clever in earlier age but the next truth is they have become more possessive, and less communicative .

5)Replica of outside world

Children in joint family do not find necessary to go somewhere to enjoy or gather for a party because family itself is sufficient to do a daily gathering. Living in a joint family will let the child explore both good and bad aspects of life , he will develop a sense of knowledge essential for dealing with outside world. She will also learn from other kids in family .

6)Development of friendship and co operation

Kids raised in joint families somehow have the sense of friendship and companionship with other kids and adults. They know how to build a network with other kids .We have noticed some kids cry and gets irritated when they see a crowd of people around them , they prefer to be alone and play alone .

Getting a chance to grow up in a joint family is always a lifetime bonus for kid and parents too. The child gets siblings to play with, mother has plenty of extra time to do her other chores, father can some energy to handle night shift for the baby, and elderly people can play with the kids. No gift is greater than anything for a baby to have other kids like her inside home.