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Support

When your baby first falls down, the first reaction is to pick her up, give her some love and attention and make sure she’s not hurt herself too bad. As she grows up, and starts becoming super active, you start warning her that what she’s attempting is dangerous. That she’s going to fall and hurt herself. As she grows further she starts becoming naughty and always ignores your warnings. You tell her, that if you warn her that she’s going to fall, and she ignores your advice and falls, then she’s not going to get any love and attention. This is where we are with my daughter. The reason we do this of course is to get her to listen to our experienced and well-intentioned advice. We would also love her to develop her own ‘alarms’ that tell her about the magnitude of risk she’s taking.   We do this despite knowing that this would only happen with time and experience. However what I really want her to know, and its great if I can record this on a blo...

Conversations

Some conversations with my daughter, starting with the oldest first and moving chronologically. I. Wife: Your uncle is coming to town. We’ll need to take him around. We’ll take him around town in a “car-peep-peep”. Daughter: And bus? Wife: No he’s coming from India. He won’t know which buses to take, he’ll get lost. Daughter: I’ll tell him! Wife: What? Daughter: 1-0-6 and 7-7 also. Wife and me looking at each other zapped. (She had been told the bus numbers we take only once before) II. Daughter: Hmmm. Yummy. What is it? Wife: Raisin Then the wife thinks we’re only teaching her English, so she decides to do a quick check in Hindi. Wife: Can you say ‘Kish-mish’? Daughter: Kish-mish! (brief pause) Daughter: We wish you a merry Kish-mish! III. Me: Are you doing potty? Daughter: Nooooo. Me: Come let me check. Daughter: Nooooo. Me: Why? Let me check. Daughter: Nooooo. Me: Are you doing potty? Daughter: Nooooo. Me: ...