Ok to be an over-grown kid?

Well, I am not too sure of the answer. Lets try and come to a conclusion together, may be at the end of this blog!

First of all let me tell you, I am a married lady with an 8-year-old school going son.

By profession, I am an Engineer. Was earlier in the typical "IT rat-race" rose up the ladder to be Project Manager in an IT firm. Hated the ever-extended official timings eating up personal time and space, quit, and is now working as a Lecturer in an Engineering college and is currently pursuing my research studies.

Why did I have to blabber about myself so much?

Wanted to make you tune into my thought frequency for this blog. Hmm... where do I begin? Ok, what kind of books do you expect me to enjoy reading?

Yes, I confess I am a voracious reader and read fiction, novel and philosophy like any other person of my age. But that's not the point.

Would you be able to digest if I tell you that I love the "Noddy" stories of Enid Blyton? Also her dolls stories about Golliwog doll and the baby stories written by Dr.Suez?

Just yesterday, my son and me were fighting to read "Five Run Away Together"!




I love playing Bay-Blade, Pokemon, and Spiderman board games with my son. I love helping him with all the activity homework he brings from school. Recently he had to draw a dwarf, colour it and stick it in his class workbook. When my son drew the dwarf it seemed to have Pinocchio’s nose and Dracula-like fingers! I really enjoyed spinning stories with my son, as to why our dwarf could be like this in DwarfLand. May be he was a perpetual liar, maybe he had put nail accessories on his fingers to appear savvy as Dracula nails were the "in thing" in Dwarf Land...Our imaginations kept soaring. We both had a nice couple of hours of fun and laughter.


When my husband gets a bar of Kit-Kat or a packet of Cheetos, for my son, we again fight over it, as both my kiddo and me want these! When a movie such as 'Superman Returns' or 'Krrish' releases, more than my kid, I make plans for all of us to see the movie!

We enjoy playing imaginative games like 'Hercules and Ghost' where the treasure to be fetched could be a powder tin!

I also love guffawing at the silliest sardar joke SMS that I get. I really enjoy interacting with my students, listening to their lamenting about a tough question paper, their fears about what kind of viva questions will be asked, their complaints about various things in life--parents, teachers, friends, the class trip they went for, the funny incidents etc. Feel overjoyed when a friend forwards an e-mail or SMS. Would feel happy and contended today, as I was able to create a blog of this question I was having in my mind for a long time!

Is this normal? I tried introspecting to find out. Realized that I feel I am re-living my lost childhood when I do these kiddish things.

Does every mother go through this phase? Asked my colleagues at work. Got mixed reactions as some don't have time to "enjoy" their child's homework as they treat it as another "irritating" job that has to be done. Some find me strange for wanting to read Famous Five at my age and perceive me as a creature they are better away from because my tastes are "immature".

The most common reaction is they don't "have time" to think of "enjoying kiddish things" because they are caught up with their daily routine jobs!

Do we really have to set aside time to enjoy life? Can't we take pleasure in the small small daily things we do and still find enjoyment?

What do you think of me? Don't you think I am an over-grown kid? Chronologically mature but kiddish mentally?

Or do you think am I slightly "off tangent" / "wacky"?

Or does most of you go through these emotions but like my friends mentioned above never had the time to "realize", "think" that you too enjoy being an over-grown kid?

Looking forward to your comments on my blog. I am really interested in knowing -- "Is it ok to be an over-grown kid”?