According to me the situation prevailing in the house is a main reason for lack of interest in education in some children. Many parents are not treating their children at par and they do not even casually talking to them. They think that casual talking with the children amounts to pampering; if we lay conditions and show strictness in them develops a good character and habits in them. But to the other side they hide themselves from the parents. In some houses the parents are abusing and criticizing them often that too in front of others, which makes them more irrelevant.
we read in daily newspapers that the children are going to the suicide level too for strictness from parents from seeing mobiles. Here also the main culprit are parents. A person seeks the hotel only if there is no food available in the house. Similarly if the house situation/ climate is not alright the child automatically seeks alternative. If boys means they go out to play with other boys but if girls means they sit with mobiles. I have seen earlier that many parents even disconnect the cable connection for their televisions for their children's study. Now I have noticed in one house that as the mother wants to see some serials in television, asked her daughter to study in the other room by realizing the interest of mother. Her husband, the father also advised the child to understand the mother's TV interest as it is the only rescue for her from her household works.
In those days my grand father, father's younger brother showed more interest in making us to have knowledge other than school subjects. They took us to the post office/banks etc., and teach us how to fill up the challan, money order forms etc.,
When we sat for study in the evenings my mother and aunt sat at the entrance of the house by talking with other outsiders so as they need not come inside the house which could disturb our study. Moreover, during the examination times, we all prepare for our examinations by writing our lessons with chalk on the floor, backside of doors. My aunt (father's brother wife) used to get tea for us by 11 pm in night to motivate our studies. On the next day without shrink in face my mother and aunt wipe out all our writings cleanly so as to enable us for the next evening. They never asked us to do this and that but trained us even in cooking only during the vacations. But now how many mother and father doing like this? Many mothers asking (commanding) their children to do household works in order to make them to learn everything. This type gave a vent to them to escape from the studies.
In another house I have seen a girl stopped her school going in her 9th standard because of the advise from her parents both that not to go to the school with her father's brother, who helped them by taking the child to school and pick up as her mother is a handicapped one. They sow ill thoughts in the minds of school going child.
