The Joy of Polaroid Photos

This Eid*... I didn't give Eideyya** to our children.. instead.. i took instant photographs of them using the only available Polaroid camera i managed to find in Abu Dhabi (FujiFilm-Instax 210)

Several photographs were good but some kids were offfffff the frame.. for a very simple reason.. the camera is a rangefinder one!! It wasn't of importance to get wow photographs as much as to spread Eid's joy ^.^

Why am i sharing this?! a simple finding of that day ----- the reaction of the kids Vs the grandmother.......

The Kids: very happy & curious to "see" that magical instant photographs!

The Grandmother: was forced to join a group photograph.. then complained: "don't you have a better camera?!!!!" -.-;;;;

Dear readers of my blog,

Each of you can interpret the above reactions his/her way, yet, when I gave it a thought..... I started to question myself.... are this children -the iPad's generation- going to miss that value of "discovery" ? what sort of knowledge should we pass them?!

Personally, I don't have a clear answer.. but i do believe in one thing:

Our responsibility is to pass them principles of morals and manners because "Our time is not theirs, and our men are not theirs."

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*Eid: is the Festival to announce the end of the Islamic Holy Month of Ramadan.

**Eiddeyya: a sum of money given to children to celebrate the Eid.