My eight years old daughter would never run out of alibis to turn study time into something that she loves doing. At times I feel I'm a failure as a mother. Every evening, we have to quarrel over her study timing. "5-7 PM miss, you ain't budging an inch. STUDY!" I warn her. Meekly she turns away from me and takes her seat. I turn on my phone to see some updates, if any, in my facebook and she is there, smiling beside me, " mama can I show you something in your phone?" I bark out the timing again and she jumps back to her room.
It is so difficult making kids follow their study routine seriously. Sometimes she comes out after one hour with some crafts she has made using papers and other stuff. Other times she shows me beautiful cards that she has made for me. And I am so taken in by her arts and crafts that I forget that she has studying to do.
So, yesterday, I told her from the beginning itself that she cannot work on any art project during the study hours. "Mama, is writing a story studying?" she asks me. I give her a nasty look that sends her scurrying to her room. Fifteen minutes after that look, she returns with an impish grin plastered on her face and hands me this paper. "Mama, I just made up this story!"
I read and re-read her story. Amazed and happy. Of course, I see some spelling errors here and there but what captures my attention is the minute details of punctuation marks that she has taken care of in her story. I know they have still not learnt anything about the inverted commas and I see that she has used it so correctly. Then there is the moral of the story that catches my attention. "Angie what is gonna happen if you don't do good listening to mama?"
She has understood without me having to explain it. After all, she wrote the story in which the naughty chickens dies after failing to listen to their mother Hen's words, not me!
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