Kolkata, March 08: Parents’ pressure on children to become engineers or doctors results in fear psychosis and could jeopardise their lives, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said today.
“Children now are intelligent, they are not even afraid of haunted houses or ghost stories. But another ghost in the form of career building grips them,” he said after giving away the awards for best children’s literature.
“It pains me to see that a child is burdened by its parents’ dreams of making their sons and daughters engineers or doctors. Such pressure takes away their childhood,” Bhattacharjee said.
He appealed to the parents present at the function to let their children enjoy childhood so that they grew up to be normal human beings.
The chief minister gave away the Vidyasagar Smriti Puraskar 2008 to poet Nirendranath Chakraborty for his contribution to the cause of children’s literature.
–Agencies