My 69-year-old father used to be an avid footballer in his youth. Despite circumstantial constraints, he managed to make it to the District team before recurring asthma attacks forced him to quit the game forever. Ever since my toddler started preschool three months back, he has developed an extreme fondness for the game of football. On observing this, my father has started taking a renewed interest in playing this game with my son. I realize that this playtime is one of the strongest bonds between a grandfather and his grandson where the older generation passes on his experience, love, and learnings of the game to the future generation.
An alumnus of Presidency College (Kolkata), Delhi University, and XIME (Bangalore), Sonia Chatterjee holds two post-graduate degrees in Chemistry and Management and an MFA in creative writing from Writer's Village University. With eight years of experience in the banking sector as a Branch Head, she took a sabbatical from the corporate world to start her blog soniasmusings.com. Her blog consistently featured in the Top Indian Blogs list from 2019 to 2024.
Her articles have been published on various digital platforms such as Women's Web, Youth Ki Awaaz, Tuck's Magazine, and Period Magazine. She was invited as a speaker at the Breaking Barriers, Kolkata 2018 event by the Women's Web, at the Women Writer’s Fest, Kolkata, 2020, and the Crime Writers Festival, Kolkata,2025.
Sonia has written two detective thrillers titled ‘Deal of Death – Introducing Raya Ray’ (2019) and ‘Diary, Deceit, and Death – A Raya Ray Adventure’ (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024) and a non-fiction book on true crime titled ‘The Sanyasi Who Became a King’ (Sristhi Publishers, 2025). Her book ‘Diary, Deceit, and Death’ was shortlisted for the PVLF Awards 2024-25 in the Best Fiction Category.
Sonia lives in Kolkata with her doctor husband and nine-and-a-half-year-old son.
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11 thoughts on “Passing on the love of playing football”
How lovely it is to see the baton of experience and learnings passed from one generation to the other. All the best to your champ for learning and enjoying this game. Cheers!
How cute is that! It’s every grandparent’s dream, I think, to teach something to their grandkids, especially, awaken an interest for something that was their passion in their childhood!
What a beautiful thing it is to see the renewed interest and enthusiasm and more importantly, the love of a sport being passed down from a grandparent to a grandchild. Kids learn so much even from the free unstructured play time with the grandparents. And, the grandparents live with these wonderful memories they can share with the children all over again. Thank you so much for linking up with Natasha and me, Sonia. Looking forward to your photo posts in the coming weeks too. 🙂
What a heart-warming post this, Sonia. It is so very essential for our children to develop that unique bond with their grandparents. I’m blessed too, to witness that between my children and my parents and in-laws. They have a beautiful rapport and my girls love spending time with them.
And I think they both benefit from these precious interactions.
Thank you so much for linking up with Esha and me for #WordlessWednesday. Great to have you join us. Hope to see your post again in the coming linkys.
Thank you for stopping by and reading this. Indeed the bond between grandparents and grandchildren is super special. I am going to continue linking up to Wordless Wednesday because it is am amazing initiative by you and Esha.
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How lovely it is to see the baton of experience and learnings passed from one generation to the other. All the best to your champ for learning and enjoying this game. Cheers!
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Thank you Shilpa
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How cute is that! It’s every grandparent’s dream, I think, to teach something to their grandkids, especially, awaken an interest for something that was their passion in their childhood!
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You are so right Shilpa. It’s amazing that you see my Dad playing football with his grandson with renewed energy and passion. Thank you for reading.
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😊 enjoyed reading!
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What a beautiful thing it is to see the renewed interest and enthusiasm and more importantly, the love of a sport being passed down from a grandparent to a grandchild. Kids learn so much even from the free unstructured play time with the grandparents. And, the grandparents live with these wonderful memories they can share with the children all over again. Thank you so much for linking up with Natasha and me, Sonia. Looking forward to your photo posts in the coming weeks too. 🙂
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So true Esha. I haven’t seen Baba so exited about this game in ages. I’m glad to join Wordless Wednesdays and I will continue linking up.
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What a heart-warming post this, Sonia. It is so very essential for our children to develop that unique bond with their grandparents. I’m blessed too, to witness that between my children and my parents and in-laws. They have a beautiful rapport and my girls love spending time with them.
And I think they both benefit from these precious interactions.
Thank you so much for linking up with Esha and me for #WordlessWednesday. Great to have you join us. Hope to see your post again in the coming linkys.
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Thank you for stopping by and reading this. Indeed the bond between grandparents and grandchildren is super special. I am going to continue linking up to Wordless Wednesday because it is am amazing initiative by you and Esha.
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So very happy to hear that Sonia. Much love and a fab week ahead!
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