So you don't follow what you teach me..?!!

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... :)