Yeah :), Pranav asked me this question one day.. here is the story.. and yeah here is the little intro before we get into the actual episode.. As I wrote in my first and foremost post.. there is a small routine both of us do sometimes at bed time, thats learning poems from sumatI Satakamu and vEmana Satakamu.. I taught him few poems and one of them is a poem from sumatI Satakamu and it goes like this ..
vinadagunevvaru cheppina
viniantane vEgapaDaka vivarimpadagun
kani kalla nijamu telisina
manujuDepO neetiparuDu mahilO sumatI !!
meaning.. listen to all that people had to tell you, but you need to see and analyze it yourself before accepting it as truth. A person who can differentiate truth and falsehood by directly looking at the facts oneself is considered to be an ideal one.
He learned this poem a while ago, about 2 months .. yeah the actual story begins here.. myself and Pranav were driving back to home from some place on a Saturday night, and we were passing by a movie theater in which a Telugu movie King, starring Nagarjuna, was playing.
Then Pranav asked me.. "amma.. king movie chUddaamaa?" meaning "shall we go watch King movie?" I said "naannaa movie baagaalEDaTa, vaddulE" meaning "it seems the movie is not good, so let's not watch it", then he asked me "evaru cheppaaru neeku?" ("Who told you?") I replied to him saying that one of my colleagues had watched the movie and said it wasn't so good.. then he immediately said.. "anTE.. evarEm cheptE adi nammEstaavaa nuvvu? nuvvu veLLi chUsi adi nijamO kaadO telusukOvaa ? vinadagu nevvaru cheppina vininantane vEgapaDaka vivarimpadagun, kani kalla nijamu telisina manujuDepO neetiparuDu mahilO sumatI, so nuvvu neetiparuDu kaadu pO!!" meaning "So you would believe in everything that is told to you? Will you not go and see yourself and find out if it is true?" and he recited the whole poem and said.."you are not an ideal person.." and he looked away seriously.. I just broke into laughter and was continuously laughing for 5 minutes.. coz his expression was so serious and he was not smiling at all :)
Sometimes we can really be cornered with the morals we teach our kids.. as I said parenting is the sweetest thing and also the toughest... :)
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Oh yeah.. you can see them.. !!
This little episode happened when Pranav was about 4 years old.. and this one is my dearest one :), I consider it as my first big shock or rather sweet surprise..
My apartment's main door opens into a common corridor of the building facing the street and there is a railway track parallel to, and one street apart from, our street. On an average at least two trains pass on it every hour and we can watch them going, standing at the main door .. Pranav used to love watching them... every time he heard the train horn he would quickly get a small step-up stool , stand on it and watch it go until it went out of sight.. and he wouldn't want to be disturbed until it was gone.. he started this routine since the day we moved in here and Pranav was 3 1/2 years old then.. I used to wonder what was he observing every time.. ?! I mean, it is just the train moving from left to right or right to left in our sight...
One day it was about 8:00 in the night and it was dark outside, we both were sitting in the drawing room and talking and there was train horn.. and yeah he quickly ran and grabbed the step-up stool put it near the main door, got himself on it and started looking at the train.. and it was really dark outside and he appeared straining to look at the train, I mean he wasn't able to see it.. then casually I said.. "naannaa, baiTa cheekaTigaa undi kadaa, train kanapaDadulE ippuDu" (meaning, " its dark outside, so you can not see the train now") in a fraction of second he turned towards me and said in a cool steady tone.. "kanapaDutundi, train lO lights unTE kanapaDutundi, ippuDu veLLEdi goods train andukani kanapaDaTlEdu, manushulu veLLE train ayitE train lO lights unTaayi, kanipistundi".. (meaning, "yes you can see if the train has lights inside it, the one going now is a goods train so I am not able to see it, if it were a passenger train I could have seen it")... I was just speechless and astonished with the confidence in his tone.. I mean he was so sure and was not expecting any endorsement from me.. :) and I did not expect him to know this as he was just 4 years old.. and he told me many things about trains that night, like
trains can be of green, blue and brown colors...
green color trains are short ones (they are local trains in our area :) )
blue color trains are longer ones
green and blue trains have people in them
brown color trains are very long, do not have people in it, they are goods trains and they do not have lights in them
brown color trains move slowly and I can watch them for longer time.. :)
and all of them noted only through his observation and he never used to talk when the train passes by and wouldn't like to be disturbed at all..
Kids are fresh, pure and are open minded and can take any information in its purest form with no tags attached.. :) We as adults tend to loose this openly accepting nature as we confine our thinking bounded by various information pieces that we know.. some times overly applying logic/ knowledge becomes hurdle for us to think out of the box and to keep simple things simple..
Keen observation skill is what all of us are born with I guess .. I mean kids have it so much and we don't have it a lot when compared to them.. and I understood that is why it is said, kids learn from 'what you do' not from 'what you say'.. and we need to be cautious when we are around them to set a right example.. all elders need to think about this when we are around our kids..
My apartment's main door opens into a common corridor of the building facing the street and there is a railway track parallel to, and one street apart from, our street. On an average at least two trains pass on it every hour and we can watch them going, standing at the main door .. Pranav used to love watching them... every time he heard the train horn he would quickly get a small step-up stool , stand on it and watch it go until it went out of sight.. and he wouldn't want to be disturbed until it was gone.. he started this routine since the day we moved in here and Pranav was 3 1/2 years old then.. I used to wonder what was he observing every time.. ?! I mean, it is just the train moving from left to right or right to left in our sight...
One day it was about 8:00 in the night and it was dark outside, we both were sitting in the drawing room and talking and there was train horn.. and yeah he quickly ran and grabbed the step-up stool put it near the main door, got himself on it and started looking at the train.. and it was really dark outside and he appeared straining to look at the train, I mean he wasn't able to see it.. then casually I said.. "naannaa, baiTa cheekaTigaa undi kadaa, train kanapaDadulE ippuDu" (meaning, " its dark outside, so you can not see the train now") in a fraction of second he turned towards me and said in a cool steady tone.. "kanapaDutundi, train lO lights unTE kanapaDutundi, ippuDu veLLEdi goods train andukani kanapaDaTlEdu, manushulu veLLE train ayitE train lO lights unTaayi, kanipistundi".. (meaning, "yes you can see if the train has lights inside it, the one going now is a goods train so I am not able to see it, if it were a passenger train I could have seen it")... I was just speechless and astonished with the confidence in his tone.. I mean he was so sure and was not expecting any endorsement from me.. :) and I did not expect him to know this as he was just 4 years old.. and he told me many things about trains that night, like
trains can be of green, blue and brown colors...
green color trains are short ones (they are local trains in our area :) )
blue color trains are longer ones
green and blue trains have people in them
brown color trains are very long, do not have people in it, they are goods trains and they do not have lights in them
brown color trains move slowly and I can watch them for longer time.. :)
and all of them noted only through his observation and he never used to talk when the train passes by and wouldn't like to be disturbed at all..
Kids are fresh, pure and are open minded and can take any information in its purest form with no tags attached.. :) We as adults tend to loose this openly accepting nature as we confine our thinking bounded by various information pieces that we know.. some times overly applying logic/ knowledge becomes hurdle for us to think out of the box and to keep simple things simple..
Keen observation skill is what all of us are born with I guess .. I mean kids have it so much and we don't have it a lot when compared to them.. and I understood that is why it is said, kids learn from 'what you do' not from 'what you say'.. and we need to be cautious when we are around them to set a right example.. all elders need to think about this when we are around our kids..
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