Ishaan has been picking up lot of English from school and Kavya. It has got to a point where he is often choosing to express his thoughts in English.
To make sure that he still speaks Gujarati, we often ask him to repeat an English sentence in Gujarati. However, when we do that, he just repeats the same sentence in English - which makes me and Gaurav wonder if he really understands that he is speaking 2 different languages - English and Gujarati and which words/vocabulary belong to which language. It seems like he doesn't.
So, now we have started teaching him that by saying the same sentence in 2 different languages and explaining that one is Gujarati and one is English.
Not sure how this happened, because with Kavya, the distinction was always clear.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Is Santa Claus real ?
Before Christmas, Kavya told me that Santa Claus is not real and that parents put the gifts under the Christmas tree, not Santa Claus. I was surprised and happy that the girl knows it all. She even said that tooth fairy is not real and that parents put the money/gift under the pillow.
Come Christmas day, the kids woke up bright and early to open up their presents and are all happy. Then, Kavya took 2 stockings and hung them on her and Ishaan's bed telling me that Santa will come and put gifts in the stockings that night.
I was surprised. I thought she was kidding. I told her they already got the gifts. She responded that parents gave those gifts. Now, Santa will put more gifts in the stocking if she leaves them overnight.
I still thought she was joking. However, today morning she was sad that the stocking was empty. She came to us and said Santa skipped our house.. there is nothing in the stocking..
I felt like laughing.. but I told her that may be Santa ran out of time or may be since she and Ishaan were fighting, they got on to Santa's naughty list :)
She forgot about it all little later.. but it does make me think if she really knows that Santa Claus is not real ?
Come Christmas day, the kids woke up bright and early to open up their presents and are all happy. Then, Kavya took 2 stockings and hung them on her and Ishaan's bed telling me that Santa will come and put gifts in the stockings that night.
I was surprised. I thought she was kidding. I told her they already got the gifts. She responded that parents gave those gifts. Now, Santa will put more gifts in the stocking if she leaves them overnight.
I still thought she was joking. However, today morning she was sad that the stocking was empty. She came to us and said Santa skipped our house.. there is nothing in the stocking..
I felt like laughing.. but I told her that may be Santa ran out of time or may be since she and Ishaan were fighting, they got on to Santa's naughty list :)
She forgot about it all little later.. but it does make me think if she really knows that Santa Claus is not real ?
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