Common – yet so uncommon Common sense

I really wonder who coined the word Common sense. It is so very uncommon.

In today's world, one has to work hard to be able to use it. We tend to use Book sense rather than Common sense

I remember one day, during my UG days, my mother once called me and told me to watch over the stove. She was making murukkus and wanted to leave the stove under my care for a few moments and handle some other work.

A few minutes later she came and blasted me saying “Arivu irruka!” which transliterates to “Do you have brains?”

I was watching the oil so that it does not get heated up so much that it catches fire whereas my mother had told me watch the murukkus so that it does not turn brown J

This saga continued to my motherhood. As a young mother, I was advised by elders to make sure the child gets fed once in an hour or so. I strictly followed the time table. One day, my son was crying with great vigour and I didn’t know what to do.

Hearing him cry, my father came running up and told me “Feed him” for which I told him that there is 30 minutes more.

I still remember the look on my father’s face!

There are few more incidents like this.

But now I am more mature and wiser.

Sometimes I wonder, how come the previous generations had more common sense and the upcoming generation do not have what we have too…

Is it our education system that needs to be upgraded so that children are not taught only book sense but also common sense...

Parents amongst us...those who are proud that the children know the digital world so well...please check if they have sufficient "Common sense"...