Yes , when kids hide , it hurts but it is also time for parents to introspect ...why they hid. Scolding them will only mess it up again...rather need to look at the logic and reasoning behind kids hiding a topic with us.Exciting. He may advice them to concentrate on studies and career first.
I am having a doubt that Chachiji accepting Sharad's alliance is a trick to make Naina open up her mind. The way how he was talking to Sameer in precap was also to instigate him to blurt out his mind.
I am a mother of a 16 year old boy. I will die 1000 deaths at a single moment if my son is hiding something like this for such a long time. I am sure there a lot of parents in this forum. What will be your reaction if your kid is falling in a love affair and hiding it from you for such a long time. Will you appreciate your kid for doing like this or will you scold them. If it happens to me then I will be really depressed and may take days or even weeks to be back to normal. I know that my son will like a girl sometime and he will also have affair but hiding from me for such a long time, I can't think about it. There were situations like Sameer was going in and out of house freely like a family member and at that time also no one suspected anything. If you see this situation from a parent's eyes then it is clearly a failure of being a parent. You can't even take care of what is happening in your own kid's Life.
Hoping that I made clear of Chachiji's situation through the eyes of a parent.
And as kids grow we cant expect them to share everything with us...secrecy is a part of human nature which can be looked upon as a nice character too...when you share something with your child and ask him not to tell anyone ...he is keeping it as a secret...in fact he should be able to...slowly as he grows up he will have his own secrets that he would share with you but with his friends...not because he doesn't trust you ...its just that he might not think that you might like his or her secrets or feel that you might misjudge him ...or just that he doesn't think you will understand the teenage issues...etc...kids have multi million reasons to hide...
Like I said in one of the earlier post Naina was rt in hiding , see how her chacha ji reacted ...he didn't even think of calling and talking to her and understanding why she hid it from him...falling in love is no crime...we cant stop kids from loving some one as they grow...that's the hard reality I have understood...as they grow, their world of people expands , they spend less time with you ...and slowly the kid who used to hold fingers and walk along with you to the near by shop is all grown up and prefers to go and get it for you riding his cycle or bike... 😊 life goes fast and we don't even realize that they have grown up because for us mothers they are the same lil ones we gave birth to...
Will they ever realize it ?? yes they will ...when they become parents...all about circle of life...