Copy Colour Attribute

Another example of the boundless imagination of a child.

"Amma, tell me the colours I need to mix to get white colour".

"You cannot get white by mixing colours. You just have to use the white crayon."

"Oh"

"Acutally,  white light has all the colours mixed together in it.  When white light is split you can see all the 7 colours."

" Oh i know ,  that's how the rainbow is formed"

"Yes!"

"Oh Amma, now i get it.  Now i know why the clouds are white.  The rainbow colours are all mixing and giving the colour to the clouds!!"

The Saviour's Dilemma

The impeccability of a child's thought never ceases to amaze us.  I  read out an article from the newspaper to my son, which was an account of the heroic act of a 11year old boy who saved an 8 year old from drowning.  My six year old sat in pensive silence for a while and then observed,  " We should help someone who is drowning."  I said, " Yes, we should."   The culmination of this musings poured out. " If we know how to swim, it is ok.  Or else, we should first pray to God to save us and the drowning person, and then jump into the water ...."

Nitty Gritty

Having taken to playing Squash  recently, my husband got himself a new pair of sport shorts and half a dozen pairs of socks from Decathlon recently.   On inspecting the contents of the  shopping bag my daughter chuckled and her comment was as usual sharp. 

" Appa has more socks than the whole Indian Squash team put together !!"

Script Scrape

"Amma, our kannada ma'am taught us two new letters today"
"And they are?"
A couple of seconds of thinking and then ...
"The one that looks like a bum and the next one that looks like something coming out of it"
"!!!!"

The above conversation took place when we were waiting at the Tirumalai Eye Clinic for the eye checkup.  The smiles and laughs from the rest of the crowd waiting for their turn suggested that they figured  something out,  ... well .. irrespective of whether they were familiar with the kannada script or not.