Dream

Early morning, C cried once or twice in her sleep. She went back to sleep without our intervention. Later, while driving to the church, we prodded her about her sinunkal. Just two days back, she had cried in the early morning and had told us that she missed granma very much and that made her cry. But this time around, to our surprise she had an elaborate story!
It seems, C and D were on a race. That was NOT a slow race but a fast race. During the race, C ran to touch the wall and return, while D was just walking. C came first and got the first prize. D came last. But to C's astonishment, D was given a prize called "the last prize". C didnt like it and reasoned that, D should not have got the prize, because it was a fast race.
And so she cried.
Ca 11 july 2010

Dropping C at school

The feeling of dropping off one's daughter - she gives a flying Kiss and then turns around to walk towards her class....

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• Senthil Kumaar, Shalmali Shenoy, Aradhana Handa Pandey and 17 others like this.
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  Eben Jayanth precious moments 

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  Siva Shankar I used to drop my father-in-law's daughter everyday. I don't remember such a thing happening even once 

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  Eben Jayanth its complicated...if ur father-in law has more than one !

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  Siva Shankar Eben: Unfortunatelly, no. Still a good one though 

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  Cleona Lira That means you've done a stellar job as a parent! Woohoo!

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  David Doss He he. Sometimes they turnaround and then wave bye

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Teaching Tamil to Chantel

Because of the paranoia of not our kids being able to understand / read / write in tamil, I thought of teaching Tamil to C during our 10 min ride in the car to her school. I thought I would play some tamil movie songs (may not be a good idea) and explain her. As of today, she can speak quite a bit in Tamil.
We started with Thanga nilave unnai urukki. The song is tough. She knew Nila but not nilavu; She didnt know urukki; She didnt know thangam. The next line was "natchathiramae unnai udaichu". Surprisingly she knew "natchathiram" (which I thought was a tough word) from the tamil Dora serial!
Then I thought, I would explain more and said, one could not actually break the moon to make jewels, but the poet was just using his poetic license, and that the moon was not actually made of gold.
She looked at me and said, "Yeah, I know! The Moon is made of cheese!"