I consider my baby too young to analyse and reason out why things are happening in a certain way. But going to school teaches a lot to the kids.Everyday they a read a book at school. Kids are encouraged to ask questions on it. They have discussions on it. Such exercises have good impact on the communication skills for the kids that nowadays she is initiating a conversation or sustaining the conversation for a long time.
In the progress report that is sent to home daily, I would just check whether she ate her food. There are eight different sections, like creative art,reasoning, motor skills, language skills....
One day when I checked the other sections, it was written that they read, 'Why Kangaroos dont wear seat belts'.
I asked her - Why Kangaroos dont wear seat belts?
she said - They are too big, they can't fit in the car seat. So they dont wear seat belts.
I was happy that she listened in the class.Even such an answer is little tough for such a small kid.
Later in the day I asked her the same question - Why Kangaroos dont wear seat belts?
She said - 'Only animals like cat or dog, we will take in the car seat. So only cats and dogs wear seat belts.'
Excited to have received two different answers, I called my hubby and explained him.
He asked her the same question. This time she replied - 'Not mommy Kangaroos wear seat belts. Only joey kangaroos wear seat belt, only babies like me'.
We continued with other conversation and ended up asking the same quesiton again.
'Mommy....(kinda frustrated because of my ignorance), Kangaroos are in deep jungle, how can they come in the car? How can they wear seatbelts?'
We were discussing about other events that happened in school and then slept a little late.
Next day morning, She was sleeping and I was staring at her. A simple question evoked so much of conversation between us. I felt like I need to spend a some time with her. After all, she is not going to be a kid forever. I used to spend lot of time with her when she was 13 month to 18 months. Now it is totally different. Strict work hours, sole responsibility for the household chores and so many worries that keeps growing everyday without any indication of a solution, mind gets completely occupied when you dont learn to live a life at present. I kissed her to wake her up.
We were playing and jumping in the bed for sometime, I asked her the question again - 'Kuttima, kangaroo seat belt pottukuma da?' - she replied - 'Mommy, kangaroo romba big'a irukkum, adhu seat belt potta seat belt break aayidum mommy..'
In a couple of hours, I couldnt help asking her again. This time she gave me an angry stare - 'Dont ever ask that question , ever again'.. (Ha ha,,,,my daughter is growing up :) )
Friday, March 16, 2012
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awesome post :) record the conversation next time
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