Young World

I have been reading Young World for many years now and I have always enjoyed reading the very useful articles and information in it. The cover article is always interesting to read as it contains information not only for kids, but also for the grownups in any house.

We get everything in one place, such as quotes, word search, ‘Quiz’, short stories, ‘Word of the week’, amazing news in ‘Spotlight’ and ‘The weekly weird’ sections. All the sections are wonderful and enhance our vocabulary in their own way.

However, my favourite section is ‘Website review’ because through these reviews I come to know about various new and useful sites every week. The fact that YW really encourages kids to contribute their beautiful art work and lovely poems is much appreciable. In my opinion, all parents should insist that their children read this wonderful and useful magazine.

Dua-e-Zehra Anwar,

Hyderabad

The balloon boy

This is regarding the story “The balloon boy” by Shafiq Rizvi (YW, June 4). This story can be an inspiration to those who think that studying or going to school is a waste of time. If we take a closer look around our vicinity, we will find many children who want to be something in life but their limited resources restrain them from pursuing their dreams.

On the contrary, there are kids living in luxurious houses with everything at their disposal and still think that education is a burden on them. They get poor grades, they take studies and their good schools for granted and waste their time in fruitless activities. They don’t know how it would feel like if all the luxuries were taken away from them just for a single day.

So my suggestion to those kids who take their studies lightly is to look around the streets at children selling stuff, cleaning the windshield of vehicles or begging. They didn’t get the chance to go to school but you have … don’t waste your time and your life; take your studies seriously and work hard.

Uswa Hafeez,

Tando Jam

Stop comparing

With reference to Syeda Armeen Nasim’s article “Stop comparing” (YW, July 16). I would like to say that I totally agree with her views.

Parents often compare their children with other kids based on the way they talk, their manners, studies, or attitude. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, kids are discouraged with such a response from their parents, and develop a feeling that they are not good while other kids are; this also results in lack of confidence. If the child is not good in studies, or is ill-mannered, parents should guide them rather than compare them to others.

Ahmed Ali,

Karachi Moluptaepere deleum

Published in Dawn, Young World, August 06th, 2016