I cant get over how innovative kids can be. I mean, adults are creative too, but man oh man, no way can they hold a candle to the kids. When kids get creative, they really really get creative.
Ask any parent, and they will emphatically agree. Is it because kids don't get tied down in straight jackets like parents do? I mean the best of us are highly creative, but still, we have trained our brains to think in certain ways, we have fine tuned our responses to situations based on feedback mechanisms from society and family at large. Our thinking in some areas becomes highly evolved, because we have chosen specifically to develop those.
Kids on the other hand are so flexible. Their thinking is open, unbiased and true from the heart. Very cute sometimes, hilarious at others. Me I find lots of things amusing in the way my kids talk. I can't help it! And I can assure you I get beaten up royally by M (who just turned 5 yesterday BTW) for it. She says things with such innocence, and I end up laughing out aloud for her cuteness. I am trying to teach her not to hit, but as her parents, we do end up getting beaten up sometimes. Talk about modern generation kids. ;-) Thank god I have been very emphatic that she cannot hit other kids - because she packs quite a whack with her tiny hand.
My latest source of amusement was the application of a specific song she learnt in school. Looks like GWH is teaching them somewhat modern songs which teach them parts of the body, etc. So she comes home one day and regales me with all the songs she has learnt recently. Cho sweet! One of them is the "Skeleton song". Didn't find it very lyrical or nursery rhymes-like, but anyway, I guess it serves its purpose. She has learnt that the human body has bones inside, and it is called the skeleton. Very nice. She is proud of the new-found knowledge, I suppose.
What I found hilarious is not the skeleton song, but the way she applied it later that night. For some reason she got ticked off with me. Now M - I cringe when I write this - she does get very angry sometimes, and uses the choicest of words, sometimes downright rude. Mostly similar to "I am going to pour a mug of water on your head". Not very nice, I agree... Okay, now that she was mad at me (most likely for not letting her watch TV), she glared at me, then said " I will remove all your skin and pink cheeks and everything and leave you as a skeleton." Ouch! I didn't know what to say, I was stunned by how she had applied her knowledge in the wink of an eye. I should have reprimanded her for the bad choice of words, but I was too amused! Anyways, or Khair, as they say in Bhopal.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Champak Time!
Its Champak Time for the kids. Must say.. P is having fun reading out to them in the night! Rentu Chuha aur Mota Hathi ki Kahaniyan, etc.. Dadi dearest sent a fat stack of Champaks, mainly for S to read by himself. He still hesitates to read Hindi books though. Getting there slowly.. mostly due to me pushing him by bits and pieces.
I say Bangalore is liking a mini-US in many ways. Most kids speak in English amongst themselves and with their parents. Parents have to make a special effort to expose them to languages. S is particularly shy about exposing what he considers as his weak links. So he is not very comfortable even trying. I suppose i should be the good parent and not pressurize him at all. But I have started changing my outlook a bit. I have gone the traditional way, and have forced him a bit. He may hate me for it now, but I see that the reluctance is lessening with each try he makes. So this ended up as a discovery for me, that being strict and "I expect you to do so" kinda outlook in parents is not all that bad is it is made out to be. :-)
M is also slowly understanding the concept of a second language. She has exposure to Tamil from her maternal grandma, though of course, she responds back only in English. But these days one interesting thing is that she watches re-runs of her DVD in Hindi (my hubby's mother tongue). So we end up having this comedy cartoon session of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, or Thumbelina. Very Funny. I am reminded of "Mita Doonga Tumhara Namo Nishaan" (Eraser in Hindi), we saw many years back.
I say Bangalore is liking a mini-US in many ways. Most kids speak in English amongst themselves and with their parents. Parents have to make a special effort to expose them to languages. S is particularly shy about exposing what he considers as his weak links. So he is not very comfortable even trying. I suppose i should be the good parent and not pressurize him at all. But I have started changing my outlook a bit. I have gone the traditional way, and have forced him a bit. He may hate me for it now, but I see that the reluctance is lessening with each try he makes. So this ended up as a discovery for me, that being strict and "I expect you to do so" kinda outlook in parents is not all that bad is it is made out to be. :-)
M is also slowly understanding the concept of a second language. She has exposure to Tamil from her maternal grandma, though of course, she responds back only in English. But these days one interesting thing is that she watches re-runs of her DVD in Hindi (my hubby's mother tongue). So we end up having this comedy cartoon session of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, or Thumbelina. Very Funny. I am reminded of "Mita Doonga Tumhara Namo Nishaan" (Eraser in Hindi), we saw many years back.
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