There are some moments where children make adults feel less wise. As a family, we faced such a moment during the first week of my niece's play school. She's an energetic and will powered go-getter kid. She made it through first week of play school without a tear and we were all so thrilled. She had this classmate of hers who kept crying all the time. Whenever we went to pick her up and drop her at school he would be crying or wanting to play on the swings and slides. We just took notice of the boy.
After a few days when her mother went to pick her from school, her teacher told my co- sister that my niece sits only next to that crying boy. Everyone at home was curious about why she sat only with him out of concern as to why she had trouble making friends in school. She then answered very casually that the boy's mother tongue was Hindi and had trouble learning the Tamil rhymes so she would sit and teach him to sing it.
*ya, you should have imagined the look on our faces*
Children are a surprise. In a household with 3 children just months apart, baby G has no trouble mingling with peers. He loves his cousins too much. Yes, they fidget and fight over toys - but when calm is restored they are a team that can outplay all 6 adults in the house. Any one can take the lead and the other two will follow - be it climbing the stairs, or walking out of the door to the gates. At home, there is always a designated baby sitter to keep the peace. Chasing is a main requirement in the resume. Baby G mutters their names when he is sleepy or sometimes half asleep. When we are at my parents, he never fails to mention their names to his Daddy G. He makes sure he gets two biscuits, one for him and one for Gokul. They are to me the G boys. (Both of them never finish a biscuit. Something is already catching their attention before they get to the third bite, so they drop the biscuits and run)
So many things to learn from the little naive and pleasant hearts. Nothing as pure and natural as a child's heart.
After a few days when her mother went to pick her from school, her teacher told my co- sister that my niece sits only next to that crying boy. Everyone at home was curious about why she sat only with him out of concern as to why she had trouble making friends in school. She then answered very casually that the boy's mother tongue was Hindi and had trouble learning the Tamil rhymes so she would sit and teach him to sing it.
*ya, you should have imagined the look on our faces*
Children are a surprise. In a household with 3 children just months apart, baby G has no trouble mingling with peers. He loves his cousins too much. Yes, they fidget and fight over toys - but when calm is restored they are a team that can outplay all 6 adults in the house. Any one can take the lead and the other two will follow - be it climbing the stairs, or walking out of the door to the gates. At home, there is always a designated baby sitter to keep the peace. Chasing is a main requirement in the resume. Baby G mutters their names when he is sleepy or sometimes half asleep. When we are at my parents, he never fails to mention their names to his Daddy G. He makes sure he gets two biscuits, one for him and one for Gokul. They are to me the G boys. (Both of them never finish a biscuit. Something is already catching their attention before they get to the third bite, so they drop the biscuits and run)
So many things to learn from the little naive and pleasant hearts. Nothing as pure and natural as a child's heart.
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