When you are around children you will
hear the most wonderful, the most witty, the most creative and imaginative, the
most humorous, the most gentle, the most weird, the most natural of emotions,
feelings, stories and conversations. Their view points always make me smile,
laugh, think, contemplate and see the world from a different point of view.
Here are two such incidents that not only made me laugh but also reassured me
of the inherent intelligence in children.
This is about my 7 year old nephew. When
he was 6 his parents were having an argument over whom does my nephew look
like. Like typical adult humans we want our offspring to resemble us.
Genetically they do but we want the resemblance to be more visually evident and
confirmed. Sometimes the resemblance is evident at an early stage and sometimes
it is not so much. In my nephew’s case it was not so much. And this was a major
topic of argument between his mum and dad. His dad was adamant that his son
resembled him while the mum was quite sure that the young boy resembled her.
Black and white childhood photos were foraged from old albums, the grandparents
were also brought into picture and asked to reaffirm that the little boy
resembled their child. Now and then past and present photos of both the generations
were laid down side by side to keep a watch out for on any significant
resemblance that could be used as solid proof of evidence. This was an ongoing
thing in the house. Then one day while the same activity of proving resemblance
was going on, the parents decided to ask my nephew as to whom he thought he
looked like. My dear nephew, who was sitting on an easy chair and watching TV.,
looked towards the two eager parents and replied very calmly and confidently “I
look like myself.” Period. Parents stumped!
The second incident in my next post...
