Learning ABC

She is someone I love the most. She loves me too. To an extent that can not only be felt when she is around me, but be felt all the time she is not around. Though she is too young a child to be scolded or beaten, I, rather, we, her parents sometimes don't have other alternative, but to scold her a lot. That is because she goes out of one's wits end very often. Very very often.

According to her mother, she is like me. Every bit of me. Every bad habit, as I have, has as if automatically transmitted to her, or rather getting transmitted to her as she is getting older. Like all other bad habits of mine, she is moody. Really moody. You can neither pursue nor pressurize her, when she is not in the mood.

She is 3 Yrs and 3 months now. We have tried many a time to pursue her to write the letter "A" on a paper with her pencil. All the time she writes a "V" instead and strike through it, telling 'this is A'. Now, with real logical sense, she is right. A struck through "V" is an "A" indeed. We tried to make her understand that it should be just opposite, but in vain. She always stuck to her principle that a struck through "V" is A.

May be, this is because she has learn it from her teacher who has shown her from her side an "A", which eventually turned out to be the reason of this mistake.

After a prolonged persuasion for around 2 months, she never made a mistake from her side to make us believe that what she believes is right. Finally, suddenly, she changed her mood and adding to our utter astonishment, she wrote "A" through "E" on her copy-book at ease. We, her parents were really overwhelmed with joy, and that's why, this post.

Wish, all of you will send "Guntu (Signora)", your best wishes, so that she can be in "mood" to learn her "ABC" as soon as possible.

By the way, you can view her in this video on the eve of Dipawali 2009.