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Toyna, Yog and Grammar
Toyna and me participating in Communications Workshop. Toyna examples on: Simple Past – Yog hit me. Present Continuous – Yog is messing the room. Past Continuous – Yog was biting me when Mama came in the room. Future Continuous – I will be kicking Yog the next time he hits me. Past Perfect – Yog had already messed the room when I woke up. This proves, beyond doubt, that Yog is always on Toynas’ mind. The reason behind the same is something to ponder about.
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Pain – Noun or Verb
Yog burnt his hand this morning. Yog crying, “Mama, I don’t like to pain!” Mama hugging Yog, “I don’t like to pain either.”
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Axe to School
Yog (playing with his toy gun): I want to take my Axe to school today. He prefers to call the Gun an Axe. I am guessing it is something to do with his ancestral genes. Mama: No, we don’t take guns to school. Yog: Mama, it is OK. This is only a toy. I will not kill everybody. Mama (wondering): Did he mean, he will only kill some? Mama: No, if you take guns to school, Police will come and put you in jail. Yog (thinking about it for some time): Do they have school in jail? Mama (knowing I have been cornered): No, I don’t think they have…
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Spaghetti to the Rescue
“No school today?” are the first words from Yog each morning. Even before he is out of bed, his blankets still rolled around him, he pops this question, looking expectantly at me for his desired response. I know he is already planning alternate strategies in his mind, even before he has heard my response. Deep cough from his mouth, vomit and stomach ache are few of his master cards. He knows he can call upon fever, or the bad headache from last month to his rescue as well. If none of this works, he can roll down some tears claiming trauma at school because his best friend does not like…
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Five Whys
Five Whys is a common management tool used for identifying root causes to a problem. It is all about asking “Why” repeatedly till you come to the real root of the problem. Five Whys is also Yogs favorite technique to understand the world around him. This is how most of our conversations, these days, go: Yog: Why do I have to wear a sweater today? Mama: Because it is cold outside. Yog: Why is it cold? Mama: Because it is winter season. Yog: Why is it winter season? Mama: Because the earth has tilted away from the sun. Yog: Why did the earth tilt away from the Sun? Mama (thinking…
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Topic of Debate – Peeing in Public Spaces should be allowed
I am not sure if it is just me or the complete air around us which feels extremely heavy. The Delhi smog seems lighter in comparison to the weight bogging our planet, thanks to the new elected President of USA. Given this context, the last thing I wanted to do was write another blog about Trump. I thought it might be a refreshing change to start a debate, which was completely unrelated to American Politics. So here goes, “Peeing in Public Spaces should be allowed, says the mother of three year old boy.” The story behind my stand on the topic. We have a big school in the adjacent lane of…
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Collection of Old Memories from Early Years with Yog
December 1, 2013 How do you know when you are spending too much time in the wrong place? Looking for a pen to sign a check and end up going in the kitchen to pick one. Almost picked a knife before I realized it is not a pen! God Save Me! April 2, 2013 Age: minus 3 months Specialty: The time when you can actually kick your mother awfully hard and still be praised for it. June 24, 2013 Switched on the laptop after about a week and am flooded with update messages – windows update, skype update, tumblr update…. At this pace, by the time I get back…
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I will miss you!
Yog: Mama, please don’t go to office Mama: I have to go to office today. I have a meeting in office. Yog: I will also come to office with you. I will also sit in meeting. Mama: Yes Yog! When you grow big, you will go to office and meetings. Then, Mama will not go to office. I will stay at home. As soon as these words are out of my mouth, I feel a sharp pull at my heart. I realize that as Yog and Toyna grow big, our roles will be reversed. I will be at home, waiting for both of them to call me or come and meet me. But…
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Be Careful
I wave Goodbye to three year old Yog and tell him I am going to office. He comes running towards me, hugs my knees and says, “Be Careful Mama!” I reassure him that I will be careful, after all I have to come back home to him and his sister. As I walk down the street to my office, I muse to myself, how a simple “Good Bye” has been replaced with “Be Careful” in our minds. Not only adults, who read and digest news everyday, but young children like Yog can also sense that the world is not a safe place anymore. It doesn’t matter whether I am walking…
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Could you please stop helping!
4th April 2016 Toyna and me sat down with the pile of new books, fresh out of the covers, proudly handed over by the school. I pulled out the stack of covering paper, tape and scissors and started the covering process. Lay the book in the middle of the paper, fold the sides, tape the sides, fold the top corners, tape the top corners, fold the bottom corners, tape the bottom corners, one done. Next book. Lay the book in the middle… Toyna took the covered book, wrote her name on it and scanned the contents, while I busied myself with the next book. Having covered school books for the last eight…
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