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Lessons from innocent hearts

Our kids are the biggest teachers. And at times they are the ones who help us reconnect with our humane side. Their innocent questions and queries leave us speechless. I find myself with no answer at all to many queries of my preschooler. And many a times i struggle to find a reasonable, satisfying and logical answer to his questions. I also feel that i fail at times to explain stuff to him when he wants to know very simple things like why did i got married? why is it that people argue? why can't he color the mango orange instead of the usual yellow? A recent incident that made me feel guilty needs to be quoted so that i can remember it in times to come and learn from it whenever i am going astray. We take a rickshaw everyday from his school back home, and it's awfully hot even at 10:30 am. in the morning when the school gets over. The day I took an umbrella to protect us from sun, he noticed that while we were in the shade, the poor rickshaw-puller was sweating in the sun. H