writing<\/em> that’s tough, it’s the ‘getting published’ part!”\u00a0 But, the fact remains that writing about your second child is harder than it seems.<\/p>\nThe reasons behind it are many.\u00a0 For one, it’s so much easier for me, as an adult, to identify with my almost-six-year-old who has impeccable communication skills and a much-advanced intellectual development (naturally!) than my two-year-old who has just started on that road.\u00a0 There’s also the fact that every thing was so new and interesting when it first happened… I end up wondering whether or not readers of this blog will enjoy reading similar experiences written about another child, the second time around?<\/p>\n
Be that as it may, Tiger is a unique\u00a0individual who faces the world in his own distinctive way.\u00a0 So, starting today, I’m going to make an effort to blog about him, as often as I can…<\/p>\n
Over the past few months, Tiger has gone from “pointing to something and grunting for it” to “trying to name the object in broken speech” to “constructing complex sentences that are almost grammatically sound”.\u00a0 Sure, he still has difficulties with some of the sounds that all kids his age would.\u00a0 But he’s getting better at it, and fast!\u00a0 Not to mention, he’s equally fluent in English and Hindi.<\/p>\n
By nature, Tiger is one of the naughtiest and most adorable babies I have ever encountered.\u00a0 Full of beans, he doesn’t tire of energy till the time he retires for the night.\u00a0 He can never get enough of his mama.\u00a0 And, he can never have enough of\u00a0repeating what his “Pumpkin didi” says or does, which drives her nuts and provides wholesome entertainment for the rest of us.<\/p>\n
Tiger is an outdoor baby.\u00a0 He’s always ready for what he excitedly refers to as “drive-drive”, and enjoys watching the world go by his window, like a happy puppy in the car.\u00a0 He really makes the most of his trips to the garden, and wants to accompany any member of the house, every time any one is going down!<\/p>\n
Earlier today, he participated in his playschool’s Annual Sports Day, where he was among the youngest participants of them all.\u00a0 His batch – the Yellow group – participated in two races: Obstacle Race and Socks Matching Race.\u00a0 True to his nature, he gave it his all and had a lot of fun along the way.\u00a0 By the end of it, he’d come first <\/em>in one race and second<\/em> in the other!<\/p>\nToo young to even understand the concept of “winning a race”, he was happy to be handed shiny packed gifts, every once in a while, by the organizers.\u00a0 As a parent, I was, naturally, happy to see that my child had won.\u00a0 But more than the victory in the race, I’m even prouder of the way my li’l champ has turned out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s been a while since I wrote about li’l Tiger. When my book on parenting was first published, all my near and dear ones insisted<\/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-649","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\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}