Toon & Teen

Our recent visit to HomeCenter at 'Lifestyle' brought out an interesting incident. As we were browsing through the ' Interiors' section, the soon-to-be-five year old was taking a close look at a lamp shade with cartoons on it, and declared, 'I like this!'. His teenage sister who has to share the room with him when we move to our flat said , 'It is time you show some maturity and stop looking at such baby stuff. Look at something more elegant that makes the room look better. Grow up now so that we can get on with life ....'
The sternness of her innuendo drove the message of disapproval so strongly that he quietly moved away from the object that had all his attention.

Dad & Daughter

My girl who has entered teens loves the malls like all the other kids her age do. Well aware of this, her dad annouced that we were all to go to one of her favourite mall and she would have to stay back home to finish her homework. "In your dreams" came the reply from her. I asked him , " Does she come in your dreams?". Without hesitation and before he could reply came her answer, "If i did, it would be his nightmare". !!!

Of hands and trunks

Learning lessons dont stop no matter how old you get. I have all the reasons to believe that the learning sessions are more frequent if you have a little one around to teach you a thing or two. The most resent lesson learnt? It is that one not only needs to think rationally while dishing out an example, but also do it very carefully and definitely should use some imagination. Here is the reason why ...
"Why are humans two legged creatures and not four?', he asked.
"Because we need hands to work, to write, to eat, to hold and to play", i replied.
"Four legged ones can't do all these?".
"Must be difficult to write" i said. I should have left it at that. But trying to throw more light i offered, " Elephants can't play tennis". There! Erroneous example and it took him less than a second to point it out to me.
"They can use their trunk! Two elephants can play tennis with their trunks if they are taught. An elephant cannot play tennis with a giraffe, but two giraffes can maybe play football?".