With Naureen tugging at my sleeves, I woke up from my
afternoon nap. She took my hand with both of her hands and pulled me towards the
6 liters plastic jar she was playing with. She put my hand over the cap meaning
– she was asking 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 door knob. She is not yet two years old unable to verbalize
what she wants.
The first words she learned from the You Tube nursery rhymes are the colors, shapes and the numbers 1-10 and yeah, 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 over her grandmother’s shirts.
The first words she learned from the You Tube nursery rhymes are the colors, shapes and the numbers 1-10 and yeah, 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 over her grandmother’s shirts.
She was sitting on my lap while we both watched the nursery
rhymes on You Tube. To my shock…omg, she recognized all the letters from A-Z
although she pronounced the letters with funny, very funny kind of way. She recognized
the alphabet from A-Z before she can even say, milk, mommy or mama?
We have some pillows with different shapes in the living
room. 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 – “wasdiss?” LOL!
She wanted to bring some of her blocks to another place so what she did - she took my hand and in my palm, she put her blocks and gently as if she was holding a glass container took it 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 what she did - she took my hand and in my palm, she put her blocks and gently as if she was holding a glass container took it 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 in my mobile. I
didn’t mind what she was doing and then I heard her say, “eight” and when I turned
to where she was – she was holding two rubber bonds touching tangentially. It’s
an 8.
This one likewise made her grandmother and I laughed so
hard, 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 inches TV and she was trying
to show me and her grandmother something.
With her 2 index fingers touching at the edge forming an angle and her
overlapping thumbs as 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!
