Science teaches us how every little thing that happens in the Universe has its own causes; its own reasons; and its very own results. Nothing happens without no reasons and this statement holds true if it is something that happens to my daughter.Yes, My four year old daughter whose bickering fills my ears from the early sunrise till the time she surrenders herself to the angel of sleep.
Recently, while on a trip, she puked so much that I felt very sorry for the state she was in. But as soon as she finished throwing up, in her usual perky tone, she would jab me from the backside seat and ask," Mama, can I tell you why I'm throwing up so much?"
Anything to make her feel better! So, I ask her," Why?"
"because while rinsing my mouth after brushing my teeth, the germs that came out of my teeth went into my tummy when I swallowed a little bit of water." she gives me a sheepish smile. In stating her theory, she unknowingly confessed about swallowing the tap water. I always scream at her to throw out the tap water while she plays with it, moving it all over, inside her tiny little mouth.
After that smile she continues," so you see, now the germs apa, germs ama and germs baby are all inside my tummy and they are making me puke so much." Much as I'm angered by her tap water swallowing part, it is overshadowed by that cute theory of the germs family in her tummy and I laugh. She laughs too. (At least momentarily she forgets her puking).
Yet another time, I was calling out for her to pick up her toys, which lays sprawled out all over the house. She loves cooking imaginary dishes for us and all of us in the house do entertain her by pretending to eat and actually relish her dishes. But seeing the toys on the floor makes me super mad sometimes! So I was yelling out for her to clean up, which actually turned on deaf ears.
After I had finished cleaning up all alone, she comes out of the room, having finished her Chota Bheem show and lovingly coos near my ears," Mama, I'm so sorry I didn't do good listening today. Can I tell why I didn't listen?"
"Why?" I ask not even ready to hear her answers for I'm still fuming in rage.
"Today Azhim didn't clean our house properly. So, these tiny dusts have entered my brain and it stopped me from listening to you."
I cast her a dirty look. Not bothered in anyway by my looks, she continues," Our brain controls everything we do, right mama?" she asks solemnly.I don't answer her, this girl has the knack to pass on her faults to everything but herself. But she pesters me with, "right? mamaaaa???? right?"
Finally I give in and answer,"RIGHT!"
"See, the dirt are inside my brain and controlling my body." and she says it with such conviction that even Einstein, if he had been sitting next to us, would have given it a second thought.Bah!
So, you see, my four year old daughter gets away, every time, with such explanation.
Best of all is when I kiss her and ask her," Why is your kissey so sweet?"
She pauses for some time, as if thinking very hard to find her reasons and then in her cute voice says,"My kissey is sweet because I always eat a lot of chocolates. That's why!"
Awww! She is just so cute!
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Friday, December 6, 2013
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Exam time
Examination time: I'm sure every one of us have dreaded this moment at some point of our lives. But along with this dread lives many other moments that we seldom fail to register because we are so tightened by the grip of dread for exams.
Well! Now I'm an adult and a teacher for that matter, people might think I've lost that dread for exams. But, to be candid I dread the exam time more than I used to as a student myself.
Before, as a young student, my only fear was just for one individual self. But, now every exam time I ve to live the fear for my daughter( she won't worry a bit about her exams and immerse herself in her games. Yes! even during exam time).
To add to it, looking around hundred plus of my students whose successes and failures reflect a large part of my own state as a teacher, I dread examination time with a multitude of hundred fold.
Take away these larger fears and coming to my selfish reasons to dread exam time is the invigilation duty hours. I guess being silent for more than two hours at a stretch is some kind of a punishment. That is when weird thoughts jump into my brain, jostling with the silence of the room and almost bursting my very sanity.
Another big reason I detest the exam time is because it brings out the cruel crafty side of our otherwise happily -playing, innocent students.
The first kind of behavioral change I loath is the usage of the daily greeting culture. Students who never even caste a second glance at you would come running down from the first floor verandah just to say," good morning madam." ofcourse we do teach them to conduct this daily ritual but where is the sincerity when the over zealous students pounce on you with these greetings only during the exam time?
The other reason is the fact thatfew students have to resort to malpractices simply because their brain won't accommodate the information required to pass the examination. This practice, if successful on the part of the student,is a deliberate bane on those who have sincerely prepared for their exams.
And if that student is caught, it is a sad fact that the student loses one solid year of schooling.
Either ways, the outcome is unpleasant and the direct repercussion falls on the young minds whose sentiments are then geared towards negativity.
So, at the end I am left pondering " do I really detest exam time so much?" Well, all I can do is shrug my shoulders, pick up the bundle of papers and walk into the exam hall.
Well! Now I'm an adult and a teacher for that matter, people might think I've lost that dread for exams. But, to be candid I dread the exam time more than I used to as a student myself.
Before, as a young student, my only fear was just for one individual self. But, now every exam time I ve to live the fear for my daughter( she won't worry a bit about her exams and immerse herself in her games. Yes! even during exam time).
To add to it, looking around hundred plus of my students whose successes and failures reflect a large part of my own state as a teacher, I dread examination time with a multitude of hundred fold.
Take away these larger fears and coming to my selfish reasons to dread exam time is the invigilation duty hours. I guess being silent for more than two hours at a stretch is some kind of a punishment. That is when weird thoughts jump into my brain, jostling with the silence of the room and almost bursting my very sanity.
Another big reason I detest the exam time is because it brings out the cruel crafty side of our otherwise happily -playing, innocent students.
The first kind of behavioral change I loath is the usage of the daily greeting culture. Students who never even caste a second glance at you would come running down from the first floor verandah just to say," good morning madam." ofcourse we do teach them to conduct this daily ritual but where is the sincerity when the over zealous students pounce on you with these greetings only during the exam time?
The other reason is the fact thatfew students have to resort to malpractices simply because their brain won't accommodate the information required to pass the examination. This practice, if successful on the part of the student,is a deliberate bane on those who have sincerely prepared for their exams.
And if that student is caught, it is a sad fact that the student loses one solid year of schooling.
Either ways, the outcome is unpleasant and the direct repercussion falls on the young minds whose sentiments are then geared towards negativity.
So, at the end I am left pondering " do I really detest exam time so much?" Well, all I can do is shrug my shoulders, pick up the bundle of papers and walk into the exam hall.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
My very English daughter
Ask my four year old daughter, "are you sharchokpa or lhotsampa?" and without waiting for you to even complete your question, she would reply,"I am English."
Sometimes, seeing the way she forces English language and styles into her daily life, I can't help thinking," she must have been a chilip in her previous life. "
She really tries her best to communicate in English all the time. For a little girl who is yet to start her formal schooling, she is doing too good with the language. But because she doesn't have any body teaching her the language and its grammar, there are errors and some of them are so cute, especially the way she uses them that I can't help but put them in writing so that I don't lose them when she eventually learns the correct version of all the following words:
1. Calace: never heard of this word? If you are in conversation with my daughter you would hear this word used atleast ten times in a minute's time. She likes to believe that she is a princess ( yes! A Disney princess) and she lives in a ' calace'. So, obviously this word is a combination of 'palace' and 'castle'.
2. Brone: if she is angry with you for whatever the reason, prepare to get this line," you don't have Brone?" actually she means to say "brain". ;)
3. Nember- no, no, I ain't talking about member here. But every time she wants to remind me of something she approaches me with her cute smile and says," nember? You told me I can eat ice cream?" ah! You are getting smart with my daughter's vocabulary if you heard " remember" shrieking in your brain. The way her pink tongue slurs with this 'nember' word, I wish it was not 'remember' at all.
4. Buyed: as it is evident, here comes the common error most of the students in my class make too. Children feel that all past tense ends in -ed but my daughter who knows nothing about past or present tense also uses words with -ed very conveniently. For instance, she would say," mama buyed this book for me." or " I thoughted you will take me with you. " so, like wise there are many words she suffixes with -ed.
5. Cooker- aww! This is the cutest compliment she gives me whenever I make any dishes for them. While her Ana gulps down the dishes greedily, my lil girl stops to tell me," mama you are a great cooker!" ain't that kinda cute?
Time permitting I can go on and on with the list of words in English my daughter uses, but bell has rung and I have to go to class now. ;).
Sometimes, seeing the way she forces English language and styles into her daily life, I can't help thinking," she must have been a chilip in her previous life. "
She really tries her best to communicate in English all the time. For a little girl who is yet to start her formal schooling, she is doing too good with the language. But because she doesn't have any body teaching her the language and its grammar, there are errors and some of them are so cute, especially the way she uses them that I can't help but put them in writing so that I don't lose them when she eventually learns the correct version of all the following words:
1. Calace: never heard of this word? If you are in conversation with my daughter you would hear this word used atleast ten times in a minute's time. She likes to believe that she is a princess ( yes! A Disney princess) and she lives in a ' calace'. So, obviously this word is a combination of 'palace' and 'castle'.
2. Brone: if she is angry with you for whatever the reason, prepare to get this line," you don't have Brone?" actually she means to say "brain". ;)
3. Nember- no, no, I ain't talking about member here. But every time she wants to remind me of something she approaches me with her cute smile and says," nember? You told me I can eat ice cream?" ah! You are getting smart with my daughter's vocabulary if you heard " remember" shrieking in your brain. The way her pink tongue slurs with this 'nember' word, I wish it was not 'remember' at all.
4. Buyed: as it is evident, here comes the common error most of the students in my class make too. Children feel that all past tense ends in -ed but my daughter who knows nothing about past or present tense also uses words with -ed very conveniently. For instance, she would say," mama buyed this book for me." or " I thoughted you will take me with you. " so, like wise there are many words she suffixes with -ed.
5. Cooker- aww! This is the cutest compliment she gives me whenever I make any dishes for them. While her Ana gulps down the dishes greedily, my lil girl stops to tell me," mama you are a great cooker!" ain't that kinda cute?
Time permitting I can go on and on with the list of words in English my daughter uses, but bell has rung and I have to go to class now. ;).
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