I am wondering how my little one had learnt to start speaking. During her initial days of learning, she used to talk a lot of sentences together which made no sense. It looked more like a Chinese language to us. She didn't mean to express anything. It was just that, she wanted to move her tongue here and there and try to make noises similar to the way we all speak. Slowly a few words like "athai" (aunt), thaathaa (grandpa), amma (mom), appa (dad) started coming out. Until that point I remember her learning process. After that it was a jet fast learning. Before I could even realize that she has started speaking, she came up to a level of learning numbers, alphabets, rhymes, colours, fruits, vegetables, months, days etc. etc. with no effort of ours - thanks to the latest technology of smart phones and internet. Every word that comes out of my mouth is very keenly observed and remembered by a cute little pair of ears. So I am becoming very conscious about the words I say. She imitates most of our words, but the surprising part is that she uses the words at the right time and instance.
For eg: I was refusing to play her the Noddy cartoon in the laptop as she was refusing to eat. I was insisting that I would play it only when she eats her dinner. She pleaded several times and found that she could not convince me. She ran to her grandma (my mom) in an intention to raise a charge against me. I was eager to hear what she was going to say. She said "Paati, Amma is torturing me!!!" Me and my mom were dumbstruck. She is just going to be 3 and she talks about "torture".
I was sure that I had used this word some time in front of her. Though she doesn't ask for the meaning directly to me when I use it, she understands it in such a way that she uses it in her own sentence during similar situations.
That day, I learnt an important lesson in parenting. Kids are more like our own mirror image. We must change our own make over and appearance so that the mirror image meets our expectation. :)
For eg: I was refusing to play her the Noddy cartoon in the laptop as she was refusing to eat. I was insisting that I would play it only when she eats her dinner. She pleaded several times and found that she could not convince me. She ran to her grandma (my mom) in an intention to raise a charge against me. I was eager to hear what she was going to say. She said "Paati, Amma is torturing me!!!" Me and my mom were dumbstruck. She is just going to be 3 and she talks about "torture".
I was sure that I had used this word some time in front of her. Though she doesn't ask for the meaning directly to me when I use it, she understands it in such a way that she uses it in her own sentence during similar situations.
That day, I learnt an important lesson in parenting. Kids are more like our own mirror image. We must change our own make over and appearance so that the mirror image meets our expectation. :)
