The Skeleton Mommy

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.