Incident 1:
Last evening, my 3 year old son was watching a video on laptop while having a cup of corn in the hall. For some reason that I don't remember, I had asked him to go to the bed room with his stuff and continue there. "Vedant, take the laptop and corn and go in to the room." To which, a cute reply comes out. "Asalu naaku three hands unnaayaa... cheppu?" (Trans: do I have three hands... tell me).
While I was amazed at the way a 3 year old expressed his inability to do all the tasks at one go in an indirect manner, a thought struck at the back of my mind -- where did he catch the phrase? The answer was quite simple, it was from his surroundings, may be classmates at school, may be kids at the park, television or may be parents.
I thought it's time, I watch my speech, for he is reproducing what he observes. This is a cute one, but it need not always be.
Incident 2:
An year ago, he was less than 2 then, I came back home after shopping some vegetables. I put the bag down and he ran towards the bag to see what I've got. He takes out a brinjal in his hand, looks at it curiously and shouts it's name with his mouth wide open, "wowwwww, brinjallll." For a second, I did not understand what's so great about a brinjal. It's not an ice cream or a toy or a chocolate for him to be so happy. I didn't exactly understand why?
When I put myself in his shoes, I got the answer. To him, that was the first time ever he saw a brinjal in full apart from seeing it in a picture, may be. To him, there was no big difference between the brinjal or a chocolate or an ice cream yet. They are all new and he is just starting to understand them.
He is born with a clean state of mind(to be a little geeky, with an empty file in his hard disk) and he is storing whatever he sees and reacting based on his storage.
The above two incidents, and many more, clearly proved me one thing. Kids are just empty canvas'es given to parents. It is just the impressions, good or bad, that they gather as they go make them what they are.
After I posted this, someone asked me how about Karma(or the past life impressions). To which I replied, "it is only the background colour of the canvas."
Last evening, my 3 year old son was watching a video on laptop while having a cup of corn in the hall. For some reason that I don't remember, I had asked him to go to the bed room with his stuff and continue there. "Vedant, take the laptop and corn and go in to the room." To which, a cute reply comes out. "Asalu naaku three hands unnaayaa... cheppu?" (Trans: do I have three hands... tell me).
While I was amazed at the way a 3 year old expressed his inability to do all the tasks at one go in an indirect manner, a thought struck at the back of my mind -- where did he catch the phrase? The answer was quite simple, it was from his surroundings, may be classmates at school, may be kids at the park, television or may be parents.
I thought it's time, I watch my speech, for he is reproducing what he observes. This is a cute one, but it need not always be.
Incident 2:
An year ago, he was less than 2 then, I came back home after shopping some vegetables. I put the bag down and he ran towards the bag to see what I've got. He takes out a brinjal in his hand, looks at it curiously and shouts it's name with his mouth wide open, "wowwwww, brinjallll." For a second, I did not understand what's so great about a brinjal. It's not an ice cream or a toy or a chocolate for him to be so happy. I didn't exactly understand why?
When I put myself in his shoes, I got the answer. To him, that was the first time ever he saw a brinjal in full apart from seeing it in a picture, may be. To him, there was no big difference between the brinjal or a chocolate or an ice cream yet. They are all new and he is just starting to understand them.
He is born with a clean state of mind(to be a little geeky, with an empty file in his hard disk) and he is storing whatever he sees and reacting based on his storage.
The above two incidents, and many more, clearly proved me one thing. Kids are just empty canvas'es given to parents. It is just the impressions, good or bad, that they gather as they go make them what they are.
After I posted this, someone asked me how about Karma(or the past life impressions). To which I replied, "it is only the background colour of the canvas."
1 comment :
Nice observation baava.... Thats why elders usually say these things.... You talk like your mother, walk like your father and so on
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