Ek onthou nog hoe gelukkig ek was toe my pa vir my die eerste keer \u2019n Kersgeskenk gekoop het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was meer as vyftig jaar gelede. Die geskenk was ook omdat ek standerd ses geslaag het. Die geskenk was \u2019n rooi viewmaster<\/i> met drie ronde skyfies met sewe paar driedimensionele prente op elk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir die eerste keer kon ek en my maats in die destydse sandstrate van Amstelhof ook \u2019n bietjie meer van die w\u00eareld te sien kry, so asof die tonele hier voor ons was. Die sewe wonders van die w\u00eareld en die lowerryke plantegroei van eksotiese eilande Pemba en Zanzibar was gewilde kykgenot. Televisie en selfone was daar toe nog nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nadat ek getroud is, het my seun wat op laerskool was een middag by die huis aangekom met \u2019n gesig wat straal van opgewondenheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het kom vertel dat sy standerd- tweejuffrou aangekondig het dat sy die klas per trein op \u2019n uitstappie Kaapstad toe sou neem om verskeie besienswaardighede te gaan besoek. Dit was vir hul jaareindfunksie. In daardie stadium was ons self nog nie so vermo\u00ebnd om ons kinders op soortgelyke uitstappies te neem nie. Die vreugde op my seun se kindergesiggie daardie dag toe hy die nuus kom oordra, sal ek nooit vergeet nie. Hy was behoorlik in die wolke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is weer daardie tyd van die jaar dat ons die \u201cgroot dae\u201d nader. Die gedagte aan geskenke draal in feitlik almal se koppe. Veral geskenke vir ons kinders en kleinkinders, maar ook geskenke vir ander kinders en volwassenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onlangs lees ek in \u2019n taalhandboek, Afrikaans My Taal 9\/10<\/i>, \u2019n roerende tydskrifartikel van \u2019n toneeltjie wat sigself op Kersdag 1963 sou afgespeel het: Die storie van die rooi lorrie. \u2019n Seuntjie wat terminaal siek is met kanker en baie pyn verduur, skryf aan die koerant vir \u2019n geskenk vir Kersfees. Hy was egter baie spesifiek dat dit \u2019n rooi lorrie moet wees. Die joernalis bring op Kersdag die geskenk. Die seuntjie roep dan sy jonger broertjie nader en oorhandig die rooi lorrie aan hom met die woorde: \u201cHier is die lorrie wat jy so graag wou h\u00ea. Ouboet het mos belowe jy sal hom kry.\u201d Op di\u00e9 dag is twee kinderhartjies besonders bly gemaak \u2013 en die pyn van die ouer boetie se kankerstryd vir eers vergete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As kinders gelukkig en plesierig is, bring dit ook vreugde en geluk oor ons as volwassenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In hierdie feestyd sal kinders oudergewoonte aan Kerskonserte en Kerskore deelneem. Watter vervullende en verrykende ervaring is dit nie om die kindertjies so te sien optree nie! So opreg, ongekunsteld en onpretensieus. Hulle is vir ons die opperste vergestalting van onskuld en die belofte van \u2019n mooi en beter m\u00f4re. Maar dit is in \u2019n groot mate ook ons as volwassenes wat die sleutel tot die toekoms vir ons kinders inhou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Derhalwe is dit so tragies en hartverskeurend dat baie grootmense menige kind so dikwels van sy of haar toekoms beroof. Kinders moet nie ontbering ly nie. Nie honger gaan slaap of koud kry nie. Kinders moet nie hartseer of vreesbevange wees nie. Kinders moet nie seergemaak of leed aangedoen word nie. In haar roman Fiela se kind<\/i> skryf Dalene Matthee: \u201cGod vergewe ons baie, maar God vergewe ons nie die kwaad wat ons \u2019n kind aandoen nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is ons plig as volwassenes om ons kinders te beskerm en veilig te hou teen gevare wat op allerlei onverwagte plekke en tye kop uitsteek. In die tyd waarin ons nou lewe is dit absoluut noodsaaklik dat ons voortdurend waaksaam en paraat moet wees. Die booswigte gee nie om vir wie hulle seermaak nie en die trauma en hartseer wat dit tot gevolg het nie. Solank hulle net hul sieklike drifte en drange kan bevredig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ons kinders sorg vir vreugde, geluk en harmonie in ons huishoudings, in ons families, in ons gemeenskappe en in ons samelewings. Hulle is die nuwe generasie. In hulle is gesetel ontelbare potensiaal wat wag om ontgin te word. Die belofte van iets mooiers en beters as wat ons dalk in ons dag des lewens ervaar het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Om \u2019n kinderhart bly te maak is onskatbaar. Dit is \u2019n ervaring wat daardie kind vir ewig bybly. Daarom is dit belangrik dat ons as volwassenes deurentyd daaraan gedagtig moet wees, en dit doelgerig moet nastreef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benewens verjaardae en ander feestelike geleenthede bied die Kerstyd een besondere geleentheid om daadwerklik enige kinderhart bly te maak. Of dit nou is deur middel van \u2019n geskenk, \u2019n uitstappie, \u2019n vriendelike gebaar of selfs random acts of kindness<\/i>. Kinders verwag nie veel nie. Hulle wil net voel hulle word liefgekry en daar word vir hulle omgegee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is belangrik dat ons kinders gelukkig moet wees, die vreugde van kindwees ten volle geniet en die w\u00eareld as \u2019n goeie plek ervaar. \u2019n Plek waarin hulle veilig en geborge voel \u2013 \u2019n plek waarin hulle self ook eendag hul eie kinders sal wil grootmaak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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