Child labour on May Day

This is apropos to the article “Child labour on May Day” by Parvez Jamil (YW, April 28).

The article meticulously describes the lives of children involved in labour and their indispensability in the society.

I agree with the writer’s suggestion that these skilful children should be compensated for their labour by creatively designing their work schedule with decent stipends, basic education in English, maths and general knowledge, and provisions for health and recreation though public and private partnership.

Abdul Khalique,

Larkana

Fewer ads please!

I am a big fan of Young World. Every section in the magazine is amazing, but I like “Story time” and “Poet’s corner” the most because children who read and write stories are more creative.

But what annoys me in the magazine is the large number of advertisements that take up most of the space, which otherwise could have been given to the stories. I want to suggest to the YW team to reduce the number of ads in the magazine and fill that space with more stories and poems.

Subhash Chander

Malkani, Badin

The real me

This is with reference to the article

“The real me” by Sidra Hafeez (YW, March 03).

The topic was excellent and it was thoroughly explained.

Our modern society is making it harder for children to live as themselves, especially for the introverts. This truth about society was beautifully depicted in the article.

Trying to follow the ideals in society, we forget about our own identity. If we all try to become like others, then the inhabitants of the world would be robots, not humans.

All the variations among us will disappear. We should not change ourselves. We should stay as we are.

Noman Maqsood Narejo,

Khairpur Mir’s

Accepting one’s mistakes

This is with reference to the article “Accepting one’s mistake” by Maria Moten (YW, March 24). It is rightly said in the article that we do make mistakes in our daily life, but sadly we don’t accept them.

People often think if they accept their mistake, others will not respect them.

On the contrary, accepting one’s fault makes you brave so I will encourage the readers to accept the fact that making mistakes is not a fault, but repeating mistakes is a big fault.

So try to improve yourself by accepting your mistakes.

Asim Waqar,

Lahore

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 19th, 2018