With Naureen tugging at my sleeves, I woke up from my
afternoon nap. She took my hand and pulled me towards the
6-liter plastic jar she was playing with. She put my hand over the cap, indicating that she wanted me to open it. She learned to do that in the last 3 months. If
she wants to open the door, she will hold my hand and tug me to the door, placing my hand over the doorknob. She is not yet two years old, and unable to verbalize
what she wants.
The first words she learned from the YouTube nursery rhymes are the colors, shapes, numbers 1-10, and the alphabet. I presumed that at her age, it’s no surprise for her to recognize some letters like A, E, and O that she can easily point out from prints on her grandmother’s shirts.
The first words she learned from the YouTube nursery rhymes are the colors, shapes, numbers 1-10, and the alphabet. I presumed that at her age, it’s no surprise for her to recognize some letters like A, E, and O that she can easily point out from prints on her grandmother’s shirts.
She was sitting on my lap while we both watched the nursery
rhymes on YouTube. To my surprise…omg, she recognized all the letters from A to Z, although she pronounced the letters in a funny, hilarious way. She recognized the alphabet from A to Z before she could even say, "Milk," "Mommy," or "Mama."
We have some pillows in the living room with different shapes. My wife asked her, “What’s this?” and Naureen answered, “Star, square, or round.” Then suddenly, she picked up one, raised it up, and asked me, " Was diss?” LOL!
She wanted to bring some of her blocks to another place, so she did what she could. She took my hand, put her blocks in my palm, and gently, as if she were holding a glass container, took them where she wanted. She tilted my hand to let the blocks fall to the spot she chose.
I was watching Jurassic Park on my mobile. She climbed over to my lap and watched with me, but to my surprise, she climbed down and hid under the table, obviously afraid. We always ignore children's perception and understanding of what they see around them. It was the part where the dinosaurs and everybody else were running away from the erupting volcano.
She wanted to bring some of her blocks to another place, so she did what she could. She took my hand, put her blocks in my palm, and gently, as if she were holding a glass container, took them where she wanted. She tilted my hand to let the blocks fall to the spot she chose.
I was watching Jurassic Park on my mobile. She climbed over to my lap and watched with me, but to my surprise, she climbed down and hid under the table, obviously afraid. We always ignore children's perception and understanding of what they see around them. It was the part where the dinosaurs and everybody else were running away from the erupting volcano.
This morning, I was busy reading the news on my mobile. I didn’t mind what she was doing, but then I heard her say, “Eight. " When I turned to where she was, she was holding two rubber bands touching tangentially. It’s
an 8.
This one likewise made her grandmother and me laugh so hard that we doubled up laughing: She said, “Triangle.” She was standing on top of the table where I was reading. She had a good view of the 32-inch TV, and she was trying to show me and her grandmother something. With her two index fingers touching at the edge, forming an angle, and her overlapping thumbs as a base, it’s a “TRIANGLE.”
It reminded me of Nishreen (my youngest daughter) when she
was about 2-3 years old. She saw her mother’s slipper turned upside down with grooved
soles and said, "ESCALATOR." LOL!
