this article has not been written by me, but by ਡਾ. ਹਰਸ਼ਿੰਦਰ ਕੌਰ

ਬਾਲ-ਸਾਹਿਤ ਬਾਰੇ ਕੁੱਝ ਕਹਿਣਾ ਮੇਰੇ ਲਈ ਅੰਗਿਆਰ ਉਤੇ ਤੁਰਨ ਜਿਹਾ ਹੈ, ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਮੇਰੇ ਹਰ ਲਫ਼ਜ਼ ਦੀ ਤੁਲਨਾ ਮੇਰੇ ਪਾਪਾ ਜੀ ਪ੍ਰੋ. ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਜੀ ਨਾਲ ਕੀਤੀ ਜਾਵੇਗੀ, ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਬਾਲ-ਸਾਹਿਤ ਘੜਨ ਲੱਗਿਆਂ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਰਚਿਆ ਸੀ। ਇਸੇ ਹੀ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਬਾਲ-ਸਾਹਿਤ ਦੇ ਅਨੇਕ ਲੇਖਕ ਤੇ ਬੁੱਧੀਜੀਵੀ ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਵੱਡੇ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਡੇ ਸਨਮਾਨਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਸਤਿਕਾਰਿਆ ਜਾ ਚੁੱਕਿਆ ਹੈ, ਵੀ ਸ਼ਾਇਦ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਸਿਖਾਂਦਰੂ ਕਹਿ ਕੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਲੇਖ ਨੂੰ ਪੜ੍ਹੇ-ਸੁਣੇ ਬਗ਼ੈਰ ਨਕਾਰ ਦੇਣ। ਪਰ ਫਿਰ ਵੀ ਮੈਂ ਬਾਲ-ਸਾਹਿਤ ਦੇ ਅਥਾਹ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ ਵਿਚ ਤਾਰੀਆਂ ਲਾਉਂਦੇ ਹਰ ਉਸ ਲੇਖਕ ਤੇ ਬੁੱਧੀਜੀਵੀ ਨੂੰ ਡੂੰਘੇ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ ਅੰਦਰਲੀ ਸੀਪ ਵਿਚਲੇ ਮੋਤੀ ਬਾਰੇ ਜ਼ਰੂਰ ਦੱਸਣਾ ਚਾਹਾਂਗੀ।

further article

http://www.wichaar.com/news/258/ARTICLE/6267/2008-06-18.html

thanks for sharing...!!!

nice article sir g

n yes no doubt violence in media games n movies....all are shedding off the innocence n simplicity of childhood.......children thz days r tech savvy right from birth...don't get to hold punjabi kisse kahaniya books or sit down with nani-dadi to listen to d bed-time stories.

Thers's a need for Child psychologists-writers as well as parents n teachers collaborative effort to understand the brain-functioning of d child n ultimately focussing on age-specific issues.

children are no longer fascinated by raja-rani or fantasy world stories....they need more moral values oriented stuff but that too on real grounds not the Aladin n magic lamp or hatim tayi ya sindbad stories..those were good for our times.....not now

Now thy look forward to harry potter stuff but thn i wonder wat impact they left on the mind of the child ...... all he wants to be a spiderman batman superman.....aggressive tendencies get full blown out in d process.......

can go on writing a lot on it.....lol......so lets discuss the topic at hand.....

Again mainu poori saumet nahin haan, payhlee gal hai kay saday mulk ( UK) vich vee aaj kal day niaanay sato hushiaa han, par sama Harry Potter dee kamjabi hai kay Sinbad atay Aladdin vargiyaa kahanian nu hee pasand karday hai..Imagination is key to grab the child’s attention..Aggressive tendencies have always been in Human, think Roman Collosium…raja tay rani vaalian kahanian vee is tarhan hundia see…If they want to be Spiderman, its because these are modern Devs, in better productions then the low budget local Indian dramas or Ramayan stories…Literature should feed of these trends…also action stories for boys are and will always be more interesting than moral stories or social issues..when you are a child in UK, you don’t read social Literature ( that is adult stuff), you fall in love with English because you are Alice in Wonderland, you are Peter in Narnia, you are Sinbad or the Dastan the Prince of Persia..the key to the western story is exactly the same as Ram fighting Ravan..

Good children’s literature is not social or moral, it is imaginative so the child falls in love with the language..maybe even anto adult ( Matilda is one of the greatest children’s novels because the villains are adults who always tok kids, so she takes revenge on them). I remember when I was in Ludhiana in Oct,  ghar dee darani was teaching her daughter to read in English

1)      The story had no moral point, and she did not get that.. I told her that the point was imagination, not morals ( it was town mouse and country mouse, so I guess all there was , was how a Pindu compares with a Shahir vala)

2)      My boys kept on laughing at how bad her daughters accents was, why because English is not an Indian’s mother tongue

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Thers's a need for Child psychologists-writers as well as parents n teachers collaborative effort to understand the brain-functioning of d child n ultimately focussing on age-specific issues.” These theories probably exist and in my experience India is probably still studying things that are long out of date in the UK

What I do agree is on Parent input..you talk about how much more advanced Kids are today..well I could not read and write English to a high standard until 9^th or 10^th grade in my time…the school our boys go to force the parents to teach 2/5’s of the curriculaumm at home ( lots of homework) and the parents have to sign the diary everyday to prove they have done so..those parents who leave education soley to the school, needless to day their kids are at the bottom of the class..one thing all parenrs are forced to do by the school is make kids read novels..my children started off with level 1 bookd when they were 4 years old. The Oldest boy is now 9 and can read all the Harry Potter books, understanding 90% of the words…They have a superior English to all working class white people..why? Because they read English everynight, in stories that are fun and modern…

So if you want the kids to love Punjabi, instead of reading Town Mouse and Country Mouse, read Punjabi Kids books…

veer g shukriya.. es khubsoorat wording lai... te jitho tak bachiyn da swal e eh study ta sanu apne home to hi start karni paini e..... Te punjabi families nu chahida e k hor languages nal Maa boli lai v pyar barkrar rakhiya jave...baki Bal-sahit lai advice den vale bahout ne ....asi ta kuch v nahi....

keep sharing ur ideas.....

main bahut wadhia topic miss kari beithi c........asal ch night shifts and hor kaman ch punjabizm te ghat aa hoea........par aaj sochea sab padna.........

rupinder g tuhadi har likht samey d jarurat hai..........

baal sahit nu nishchit karna sach vich bahut auokha kam hai.........

aaj kal de bachey eh " bachaa" kahauana pasand nae karde......ohna nu lagda k j ohna nu ek mature insaan d tarah leya jaavey........

hun ehdar aa k pata laga k sadey punjab de neyane boh lucky hun..........bachpan enjoy tan karde aa.galian ch khed k.......ethey tan neyane machini toys naal khed khed machine ho rahe hun..........

punjab kise bachey nu smile deini...tan ohne hass k thoda sang k aapni maa pishey luk jana........par hun nahi.......

media da worst effect bachea te peya.........media ne bachea nu umar to pehlan jawaaan kar dita.........

sahit ajeha hovey..jis vich samajik kadran keemtan nu parbhaavshali tarekey naal byan kita gaya hovey............sex edu. da  ek hissa es sahit vich hona chahida....tan jo sadey bachean nu chori dekhan da craze na rahe....

dr harshinder huna nu aksar padea...........ajit paper ch tan inha da kafi yogdaan hai...........sirf changa likhan de mamle ch...........

changa vae kinna kuch likhna....par kal..........

BACHEYA DA SAHIT ES TARAH DA HONA CHAHIDA HAI KE BACHEYA DA MANORANJAN VE HOVE TE KNOWLEDGE VE MILE

BACHE YAN TAN CARTOON JAN PHIR DRAWING DE SHOKIN HUNDE NE

SAHIT NU MANORANJAK TARIKE DEKHA KE BACHEYA NU PARHAYA JAVE TAN 

ESDA RESULT WADIA AVEGA TE BACHE V KUSH HON GE

bahut khoob rupinder ji 

bahut hi knowledgeable topic hai tuhada  nd

Thank you ji