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will start sulking. If he feels like playing, he will immediately start playing. He is not able to comprehend that other peoples' sleep will be disturbed by his playing. If some-one slips, elders may be able to contain their laughter but small children will start laughing.
If he is in a mood to study, the home-work is his and he will complete it. But if he is in a mood to play, then the homework is under the care of his mummy ! Children cannot contain their emotions.
Children are not mature enough to attach a value to a thing or a person.
Some elders may not be comfortable drinking doodhpaak, that is sweetened and thickened milk, and hence will decline to accept, when offered with some aggression, as is the custom at functions. If the child is not in a mood to eat, he will overturn his plate. Elders understand the difference between expensive clothes and plain clothes. Small kids will soil any clothes and make them wet too without differentiating between expensive and cheap clothes.
Realising the fragileness of glass crockery, elders will lift them and put them down with responsibility and care. You cannot trust children. That is why when any delicate thing is picked up by a child, we carefully and tactfully take it away from them, and put it away.
Elders know how to talk and behave respectfully with elders and important people. Kids can throw tantrums anywhere. There is no fixed place or time. When sweets are made for guests and a small child comes and partakes from the same before the guests arrive, can't the elders have enough wisdom to understand the emotional quotient of the child ?
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