Brazil Bharath with a babe!

Shaping a toddler's mind

My precious Shreya is 26 months old and boy does she soak information like a sponge
This makes me both proud and scared. What do I teach her? How do I teach her?

I think I should begin with helping her form complex thoughts and also spark her imagination.

I am going to teach her new stuff everyday

I should probably create a template and work from there

Shreya eating roti and channa

Jumped from dec 200 6to july 2007

Birds hibernate during winter. so did this blog.
Shreya, meanwhile has transformed by leaps and bounds.

She is a true testimony to "calm before storm"
The magical first year, she did not make one sound. My pediatrician would have been the first one to have heard a mom saying, "why doesn't my child cry more often"

But now, oh things are so different!

Boy ! does she talk. Not a chatterbox, but throws some key phrases, repeats what we say (needless to say. we are now watching our language).

She has started day care from april

Recognition and Repetition

Shreya now has the ability to recognise music, books and her toys.
Isn't this good news? Yes. But recognition comes with a price.
Repetion. She insists on playing the same song, reading the same book over and over again. Why, even eating the same snacks or food.

If she had the ability to recognise this blog and post, she might insist on publishing this post everyday.

In order to preserve the sanity of the readers, that will not happen

Shreya's first alphabet - Not "A"

The first alphabet Shreya mouthed was "X"
Can you imagine?

Now, what can I infer from this?

A) She is referring to her chromosones - which are two Xs

B) Is she saying she has X-ray vision - by picking up objects that are invisible to naked eyes?

C) is she going to develop something like "X-rays"

Ah! I am a typical mother reading too much into this

I think her lips probably prefer to say"X" first
simple

Philosophy maybe?

When I told shreya that we shd keep up our word and promises, she took that literally
I mean, she went to the extent of removing the "backspace key" from my laptop.
Is she probably saying to me - no going back and erasing what you typed either?

Nah! She is just having toddler fun at mommy's expense