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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