Storytelling with Sidhika!

Hi everybody, I'm doing a special book reading today. Now this book that I'm going to read is absolutely appropriate for today's times, for the quarantine time. When our kids are in school, we always want our kids close to us. When we go to a party at night, we miss our children. But now that they are there with us all the time, 24/7, we just forget how much we love them. Them. We get angry, we get irritated. There's so much work to do. There's work of the house, there are other responsibilities, there's the loss, the financial loss that seems to be coming. There's so much happening, and on top of that, it's our children with us all the time. We need to entertain them, we need to feed them, we need to look after them. And at these times, it's easy to become impatient, to become irritable, and just lose your cool. So for such times, I have the perfect book for you that you can read to your children and you can listen for yourself. Remember the time when your babies were just born. So close your eyes and visualize when you just delivered, either a normal or a cesarean, your stomach was cut up or you had a vaginal birth and your baby was born right in front of you. I hope all you mommies and daddies can picture that first moment where your baby smiled and you had your babies in your arms. Keep that thought and I'm gonna start reading. This book is called Love You Forever. It's a lovely book to read and it's a lovely book to hear. So mommies and daddies, are you all ready? Do you have your little baby in front of, front of you? Can you imagine that baby? Okay. A mother held her new baby and very slowly rocked her back and forth. So as she was rocking her, she was singing, "I love you forever, forever, forever. I like you for always, for always, for always. As long as I'm living." My baby you'll be. My baby, my baby, my baby you'll be. So mommies, remember the first time when you sang this song to your baby? How did it feel? It felt calm, it felt quiet. You felt responsible for your child. But then that baby starts growing up and that baby starts making a mess. He becomes 2 years old and he runs all around the house. He pulls all the books. He messes up all the food. He spills all the milk. He pulls all the food out of the refrigerator and the mommy goes crazy. And then what happens? Then at night the baby goes to sleep. And when the baby goes to sleep, you open the door You crawl to his bed and you sing to your baby. What do you sing? I love you forever, forever, forever. I like you for always, for always, for always. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. So remember, they are your babies. However messy monsters they might be, they are still your babies. And then that 2-year-old baby grew. He became a young boy. He never wanted to come for dinner. He never wanted to take a bath. He never wanted to visit his grandparents. And sometimes he also used bad words. And his mother wanted to sell him, maybe to the zoo or to the circus. But at nighttime, when he was asleep, she crawled across the floor, through all the books, looked over the side of the bed, and if he was really asleep, she picked the 9-year-old boy and she would sing, "I love you forever, forever, forever. I like you for always, for always." For always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. And then the boy grew, you can see. And he grew and he grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends, he wore strange clothes, he listened to strange music. Sometimes the mother felt as if she was right in the zoo. She was fed up, she was exhausted, she was tired, she was irritated, she was agitated. She was upset. She wanted to cry. But at nighttime, when the teenager slept in his bed, she missed him in her room. She would go up to his room. She would rock him. She would sing for him. She'd put her hand on him and sing, I love you forever, forever, forever. I like you for always, for always. For always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. Then the teenager grew. He became a big man. He left home. He got a house of his own. But sometimes on dark nights, the mother got into her car and she would drive to his house. If all the lights in her son's house were out, she opened his bedroom window crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of his bed. If that great big man was really asleep, she would pick him up and she would rock him and she would sing, I love you forever, forever, forever. I like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. Well, that mother, she got older and she got older and older. And one day she called up her son and she said, "You better come see me because I'm very old and very sick." So her son came to see her. When he came in the door, she tried to sing the song. She sang, "I love you forever, I like you forever." I like you for always. But she couldn't finish because she was old and she was sick. And then you know what happened? The sun picked her up and the sun rocked her back and forth and the sun sang, I love you forever, forever, forever. I like you for always, for always, for always. As long as I'm living, my mommy you'll be. When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs. Then he went to the room where his very new baby daughter was sleeping. He picked her up in his arms and he rocked her back and forth. While he rocked her, he sang, "I love you forever, forever, forever. I like you for always, as long as I'm living. My baby you be." So parents, remember, your children are going to grow up. This time is going to pass. You will not be able to hold on to your children. So cherish this moment, cherish this time. Resolve to make the most of this quarantine and sing this to your children. I hope you enjoyed my Storytime with Sidhika Goenka. Bye, I'll see you next time.