Navneeth Neram-continues....

What do I answer? Logging these questions so that I would clarify the answers with his when he grows up 

Is this Compassion or Logic?

Mom: Navneeth, y don’t you wear your slippers? its so hot…
Navneeth: see there are so many ants going..y don’t you stitch a slipper for them too!!


Points to Ponder

Once when I corrected him saying it is hair oil and not head oil, he asked my “Why not”??
Spontaneously, I just answered “That is because you apply to the hair and not head”, not realizing he would ponder on that 
Then came the instant reply- Why do you say head bath and not hair bath?


Yet another incident was when I was just putting him to sleep with a lullaby which has a line “kaveri snanam”…at around 11pm in the night, half drowsy came a question –Amma, if we take bath in the river, wont it get dirty? Y do they ask us to do that??

Well, I guess just as we try to skip confusing points while taking a seminar, fearing questions; I may have to apply the same strategy before I use anything with my little one. A better option may be to get smarter to answer him 


Embarrassed !!


He loves his teacher and I have been using the age old phenomenon of using the teacher’s name wherever he goes wrong. It was working so fine and today he came back from school saying- Mom, when I do a mistake you say that you would tell my teacher. Today, I told her that “My mom beats me when I don’t behave well”.

For a moment I was taken aback. Thank God, he added the clause “when I don’t behave well”. And when I asked him what his teacher replied for that, the answer was-“Be good at home too as you are in the class”

Thanks to the teacher too but what if he had missed the later part of his complaint. And what if he had said that in a place like US?