Changing Families

Here are some pictures of families. These are the families of Nimmi, Tsering and Nazli. Let us look at these pictures, talk about what we see and discuss.

A New Arrival!

There is great excitement in Nimmi’s family. She has a new baby sister.

New Place

         Tsering’s father received a letter from his office. The letter said that he was being promoted and would have to move to another city.

When Tsering’s father showed the letter to his family, how do you think the different members would have felt?

Ö What will change in Tsering’s family after his father’s transfer ?

For example –

Ö Who from Tsering’s family will live with his father at the new place? Which school will Tsering go to now ? Will he have new friends?

Ö Has anybody in your family moved to a new place because of work ?

Ö  What do you feel about this change?

Ö Is there anyone in your class or school who has come to your school from another place? If so, talk to him or her.

Ö  Where has she or he come from?

Ö  What was his or her old school like?

Ö  What does he or she find different here?

Ö  Does he or she like the change?

It’s a Wedding!

There is great joy in Nazli’s home today. Her elder cousin brother is getting married.

Let us talk

Do you think that there will be any change in Nazli’s family after this wedding? What will change?

Ö Do you think there will be changes in the home from where the new bride has come? What kind of changes?

Ö Talk to your mother and aunts in the family. Ask them about where they lived before they got married.

Ö  Who were the members in their families then?

Ö Has anybody in your family been married recently ? Who?

My Family – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow…

All families change in some way or the other because of different reasons. Has your family changed too?

When your grandmother and grandfather were children like you, was your family just like it is today ?

Do you remember the picture of Sitamma’s family tree which we saw in Class III?

Ö You had also drawn a family tree of your own family. Let us again draw the family tree of last year in your notebook.

Ö Ask your grandmother or grandfather how many members were there in their family when they were your age? Then draw a family tree in your notebook of their family when they were young.

Ö Can you see yourself, your brother or your sister, your mother or your father, anywhere in this family tree?

Ö Now draw a family tree of your present family in your notebook.

There are many girls who get married before they are 18 years old. Many of them have to even leave school. There are many true stories of girls like Susheela of Ranga Reddy district who are going back to school. She also got the help of the Panchayat. The Panchayat said that young children should play and study and not be married off. A group of people of

Andhra Pradesh holds special camps to help married girls to go back to school. Jangamma and Chitti say, “We would like to study and stand on our own feet.”