While am enjoying my second son's little conversations in cute little words like 'Ma', 'Pa' , 'Grr' ( for truck!), am also having fun conversing with my older one. The mix of innocence and logic always catches me off-guard, never fails to surprise me. Am writing down a few gems I remember, for the sake of posterity ! :)
My uncle had passed away that day and we were just back from the funeral. I started to explain to my five year old son with a lot of hesitation about what had happened. My aunt would give him juice every time he visited them, so he would call her 'Juice Ajji' , so I started saying " You know the Taatha in Juice Ajji's house, he is no more"
P1: "Where is he"?
Me: " He is gone"
P1: " Near God?"
Me: "Yes, so next time you go to their house, you should not ask where Taatha is, okay?"
P1 thought about this for about five seconds and said
"okay ... but I can still drink juice right?!! "
At this moment, the innocence in his question diffused the sadness and seriousness of the situation and erupted laughter.
We were sitting in a restaurant , ordered food and waiting, and P1 was talking non-stop. The place was empty except for two other tables that were occupied and folks there were busy eating. Since I was getting embarrassed by his loud chatter, I told him -
" See, you are the only one talking in this whole restaurant, every one else is silent"
He saw around the room and said
" Everyone has got their food, so they are busy eating. We haven't got ours, so am talking !"
I didn't have anything to counter this logic, as it made perfect sense. :)
This weekend I had a tough time making him finish his homework. When he was finally done, I asked him
"Last time you finished your homework so soon, why did you take so long this time? "
P1: "I had to write lots of numbers ... from 101 to 200 ! thats why"
Me: "Writing 1 to 100 is the same as writing 101 to 200"
and guess what P1 says
P1: "but I had to write 3 digits, that's why it took longer !"
Making your kid do as you say is one thing, but countering his logic is something else!
