It’s been a while since I posted any thing on my experiences with Pumpkin’s pre-school years.\u00a0 It’s not that there wasn’t any thing to write about.\u00a0 She’s growing each day, and learning new things at a furious pace!\u00a0 But, attending to Tiger has kept us kind of busy, these past few months.\u00a0 I only hope that his experiences of discovery don’t get jaded in our minds, by the time it’s his turn to amuse us!\u00a0 Anyway, I digress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ever so often, you hear your child say something so unexpected, and so completely heart-warming that you stop every thing else\u00a0and just take in the experience.\u00a0 Many of these utterances can\u2019t quite be compartmentalized in a neat package, or given a title or a beginning or an end.\u00a0 But, they\u2019re surely worth noting\u2026 and recalling for years to come\u2026\u00a0With that in mind, I begin a new series of parenting posts entitled \u201cTidbits\u201d in which I will write about just these things.<\/p>\n
When I look back at the past few weeks, I recall two incidents that left a mark…<\/p>\n
Mathemagic<\/strong><\/p>\n Pumpkin : You know, I know a really big number…\u00a0 100 ! Me : Do you know which two numbers make the number “20” ? TLC<\/strong><\/p>\n We were on our way back from a trip to the mall, and the traffic was too bad.\u00a0 I was groaning a bit in discomfort, because of my lower back pain.<\/p>\n Pumpkin enquired what was wrong, so I explained the situation to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n Spontaneously, she remarked : “When I grow up to be 16 years old (that’s her idea of being a grown up!), I will drive the car and you relax at the back, ok?<\/i>“<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And, to think that she’s yet to complete four years (next week)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a while since I posted any thing on my experiences with Pumpkin’s pre-school years.\u00a0 It’s not that there wasn’t any thing to write<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wonder-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nPumpkin : I know an even bigger number… 20 !<\/p>\n
\nPumpkin : Yes, 1. Twen and 2. Tea. !!!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n