So, I have been trying, and in vain, if I may add, to teach my little one to pick up her toys after she is done playing with them. Most of the days she doesn’t even register that I am talking to her. She is too smart to give me attention when I am asking her to pick up after her. Next, I resorted to help her pick up her toys with her. This starts with me starting to pick her toys and pretending how fun it is! She does join in for a while, only to start playing with the toys again. Or worse, finding that it is not so much fun!
I have resigned to the situation now. After all, kids grow up. I am going to miss this stage once she starts keeping her things in order. Or that’s how a lot of parenting blogs tell me. So I have left it at that.
Recently, one day, she asked me for a chocolate. And as always, I refused. She persisted. So I kept delaying it saying that she hadn’t brushed, and then it was milk time, and then it was breakfast time and so on and so forth. Finally, after lunch, I relented. I gave her not 1, but 2 chocolates. The only reason being that that I like to eat 2 chocolates at a time. So I thought she could have two too, at least one time. Of course, she was deliriously happy at hitting this unexpected jackpot. I went about doing my chores of the day until she came up to me after a while and told me that she had picked up all her toys. I was like, “What? You have done what?”. And she gave me a sheepish grin and also a peck on the cheek without prompting for it. And that ladies and gentlemen led me to these 2 very important revelations:
1) Our government officers are overgrown children who need a “chocolate” first and then get the work done. Nothing else works!
2) Our kids have, unfortunately, inherited this from us.
Our genes have been corrupted. God help my country!
Haha….😀😀
Haha..hilarious..could picture the hopeful Ghat all the while.. 😀