Daylight Saving Time (DST)

Why DST

Daylight saving time (DST) also called summer time in several countries, in British English, and European official terminology, it is the practice of advancing clocks, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.

Though it was mentioned early by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, the modern idea of daylight saving was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson and it was first implemented during the First World War. Many countries have used it at various times since then.

If you live near the equator, day and night are nearly the same (12 hours). But elsewhere on Earth, there is much more daylight in the summer than in the winter. The closer you live to the North or South Pole, the longer the period of daylight in the summer. Thus, Daylight Saving Time or so called Summer time is usually not helpful in the tropics, and countries near the equator generally do not change their clocks.

When we adjust our clocks

Most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU(European Union), all time zones change at the same moment.

Age for True Relationship

Unpleasant Trend

Awful trend among the younger generations made me to inscribe this blog. There are 3 incidents which I would like to mention here. They are, Suicide of Dhyriya Lakshmi, a first year student of Anna University hangs herself because of depression in studies. And another incident, a class 9 student immolates herself, after she was warned by school authorities for allegedly helping her friend in an exam and then an incident where a teenagers murders his colleague because of jealous on him at workplace.

Age group of 14-18

Age group of 14th to 18th is the powerful period of any children, though we as a country always look upon the age group of developed individuals who are just turned 21, which means they have just finished college and started earnings which would directly act upon countries wealth. [My thinking might be biased too, as people of different studies like MBBS has 5 years of studies excluding 1 year of service. Also they need to study masters to survive in the competitive world of Doctors.]
 

Nurturing Age 

Back to the young generation of 14 to 18 years, they are unnoticed tiny stars who can enlighten brighter than the sun of future. This is the age for children to gain maturity, this is age for children to understand what the outside world is, this is the age for children to do different things, this is the age for children to see a role model or a follower, this is the age for children to see their parents as best friends or worst enemies and this is the age for children to search for their true friendship.

 

Are they tough enough? 

Knowingly or unknowingly, we as a parents of every children, started to show less importance to the above age group, as we always feel that the younger generation are much matured and they started learning things very earlier than us. But what we missed to understand is, though they are smarter than us during the similar age as we are, they hardly faced the real toughness with fellow mates and near ones. Have they experienced buying Ration items after being in the long queue? No. Do they know, how traveling in the bus/train was there in previous days. Do they feel, what it means to win a cycle race with our friends? No. But those are the simple things which would help them to know what are the two ends of life and helps them to mold themselves in different situations and also help us in interacting with new people around the places.

 

What is the difference? 

What I have mentioned toughness, it is the ability to face the consequence in the real world with other fellow people, either knowingly or unknowingly. When we look back before 10-15 years from now, we are not as mobilized as now. During those days, we used to do lot of external activities. For instance we will consider the outdoor games which were more common 10-15 years than now. With our friends and families, we play games/event on those days which has a winner and loser ultimately. No matter winning or losing, that will give the children a chance to prove their toughness. Also children were open to more such environment those days, which had created the real toughness within them.

 

Unreliable School trends 

Increase in private schools also another concern. Though there are certain schools making a healthy progress, there are schools primarily falling on pass percentage and aggregate competitiveness which ultimately creates an extensive gap between children of this age. People of this age should be motivated to have friends and should be nurtured to create good surroundings, whereas there are schools primarily dictating the marks and grade of the students, even with less importance to co-curricular activities which creates only ego between them. 

 

Age of True Relationship 

Though I had mentioned a few instances where how the earlier days helped us in inculcating the mental toughness within, is it possible to pull those days to present? Definitely NO. But we understand that what we really missing with teenagers of current decade. Yes, they just need a true relation without ego! Is it easy to get an unegoistic friend in this current competitive world? Definitely NO. Hence in general, who can be the best and true friend for them in this age? Thinking still... It's none another than you as a Parents!
 

Here is a simple example I would like to mention!

Take a scenario where your daughter/sister is been teased by some guys in school and she reported to you! What would you do? Go to the school and inform the Principal to take strict action against those boys! If your answer is yes, then your daughter might fall in trouble again, as you took the chance away from her to face the situation. The right approach would be, "Calm her! Tell her, that she should be strong in any situation! Inculcate her right habit to approach those situations. When teased by fellow boys, give her tips that show some hard sign on them like "stare and move" or ignoring them or in worst case complaining to the teacher. But whatever it may be, we must allow her to act on herself! That’s it!

Be a true friend to your young children and win their hearts!