Setinggi Wau



Norlilah Ismail

 Ayuh! kita terbang tinggi bak wau yang dihayun bayu
Berdesir gemersik kedengaran tali wau
bak gesekan biola membelah sayu
sayap terbentang, membayang redup...
sayup tinggi , meriah mencorak angkasa raya
megah mengibar...

apa pun teman..
asalkan umbi  kita tetap terpasak di bumi
selagi  adat dan adap menjadi tunjang
iman dan taqwa menjadi kompas pedoman
perpaduan dan harmoni adalah tonggak ilham
selamatlah....
teruskan lah menjengah seluruh pelosok alam
terus meninggi
kerana kita sedar
bumi tetap tempat  berpijak..


nukilan

Norlilah Ismail

Marah...Perosak Hubungan

Perasaan marah, dendam dan menyampah memang tidak dapat kita singkirkan kerana perasaan ini tercetus disebabkan rasa tidak puas hati sesama sendiri. Marah kepada pasangan yang kita cintai, kadangkala menjadikan kita begitu kering hati dan tidak mahu memaafkan lagi. Marah kepada kawan-kawan sehingga sanggup memutuskan talian persahabatan. Malah ada juga ibu bapa yang marahkan anak sungguh-sungguh sehingga sanggup memanjatkan doa yang buruk kepada darah daging sendiri.

Sudah menjadi kelaziman atau pun peraturan hubungan, serapat atau sebaik mana hubungan tersebut, kita pasti pernah bertengkar dan atau masam mencuka dengannya. Apatah lagi apabila masing-masing tidak sependapat. Kedua-duanya tidak mahu mengalah. Sebaliknya sanggup menegangkan urat leher, tetapi sampai bila?

Perasaan marah ini timbul apabila seseorang merasakan haknya dirampas atau digugat oleh pihak lain sama ada secara sedar atau tidak. Kemarahan timbul berikutan peraan ingin mempertahankan hak dan kebenaran. Kita memang pun berhak untuk melindungi dan mempertahnkan apa sahaja yang dirasakan milik kita. Akan tetapi yang perlu kita ingat, kita tidak diizinkan marah. Islam melarang perbuatan marah sehingga menyebabkan dendam-mendendam.

Cara terbaik sebelum pertengkaran menjadi medan World War, eloklah kita cuba tukar tajuk perbualan yang menimbulkan rasa tidak puas hati atau salah faham itu. Bincanglah dengan tenang tanpa gangguan dan campur tangan daripada orang lain. Kita boleh menyelami dasar hati dan perasaan masing-masing. Masalah tidak akan selesai jika masing-masing berkepala keras. Sekali-sekala apa salahnya kita mengambil sikap mengalah. Seandainya penyebar virus kemarahan itu adalah kita, tidak salah jika kita mengakuinya. Marilah kita bersikap waras dalam sesuatu perhubungan. Allah murahkan rezeki orang yang menarik diri daripada kemarahan dengan memberikan kemudahan dalam aspek yang tidak terduga oleh kita.

Television...a Potent Influence in Our Lives

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For all the benefits that TV brings us when
we are unable to go out for entertainment



Television has become a potent influence in our lives. It affects our attitudes as well as the clothes that we buy. Its influence is so widespread that it even affects our choice of foods. Television was for entertainment, but its magic has cast a spell over our life-style. It is recently that we have become aware of how pervasive a force it is in our lives. when we do not try to control it, we experience lethargy and inertia. This is because television is omnipresent in our lives. We cannot go anywhere without experiencing its message. It sugar-coats our dreams and drain our energies.

Television can provide entertainment and information, but for the growing mind it can also contribute to a distorted sense of reality. During the developmental years, your child will learn about the world by looking at things and events  and acting upon them. In this intercourse with life's events, your child will think about what he has experienced and will respond with emotion to the results. At all times, his visual system will guide his actions and will respond to the feelings he attaches to them. This intersaction between what he sees, how he acts upon it and how he feels about what he perceives develops into the perceptual filters that guide his future behaviour. In each of these real-life encounters he has responded by choice and then analyzed the results. It is this act of participation which is the key to healthy growth.

Entering School: The Skill of Sitting

The big day arrives and your child is off to school. It is interesting how frequently we have children start formal education at age seven. They appear ready to learn at about that age- at least formally. They like to be part of a group. They look up to authority figures and absorb what authority figures have to say.

Children entering school must be able to balance their bodies comfortably. This involves an integration between their balance mechanism and their visual attention mechanism. You have seen this grow over the years so that they can sit and watch without being pulled into the action by what they are watching. The skill of sitting in a balanced posture, oriented to a learning situation and ready to absorb information, depends on the ability to balance the body while sitting and listening, reading and writing. This is the same reciprocal motor skill that the children have developed over the last seven years. It started with rolling over and progressed to creeping and walking and finally demonstrated itself when they could alternate their feet while walking down the stairs without help or demonstrated the ability to skip.

What the child really demonstrated is the reciprocal control of opposite actions of the nervous system and the muscles that position the body. They coordinate the left-side muscles with the right-side muscles, front with back, the visual cues of being upright with the postural cues of being upright. All of these coordinated movements are, we hope, skillfully developed so that unconscious effort needed to sustain coordination. If this is the case, then the child is posturally orientated to the task with minimal distraction. and is able to pay full attention to what is being presented.