The kids are yet to get a sense of tense and time. So the sentences range from "Lia peed in the class next month" to "Didnt you give me a chocolate last year/month" (when it is actually last week). Yesterdays and tomorrows are easier for them to comprehend, the rest of the dates are either too advanced or too long ago. So, Ash begins his conversations with pandu pandu (once upon a time...).
No, it is not a matter of worry but one of entertainment as the kids master their mother tongue.
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While a sick Ash continues to co-sleep, Mira is learning to sleep on her own at night. I know it is late by Western standards but we are still not emotionally ready to wean them. She sleeps alone on the big bed in the children's room while the maid sleeps on the floor. Twice, she woke up early dawn and joined us. She continues to be a baby for us and we are just not ready to let go....
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Mira likes minimum adornments on herself - no hairclips, bands, bangles or chains. The school rules suit her fine - no necklace or nailpolish or fancy jewellery. Only black bands and hairclips. But a bindi on the forehead is no problem. However, Mira has been shunning all forms of make-up this year as she fears her bullying peers. She tells us that the kids will take them away, so today when I put a watery bindi on her forehead she was in tears. I pretended to wipe it away and she ran off to catch the school van happily (though a bit unhapy that she couldnt doublecheck the erased bindi in the mirror)
When she came home and found the yello bindi still intact on her forehead, she gave her poor nanny a dressing down. "Kalli, you tell me that the bindi has gone and it is still there," she fumed.
It gave us adults some moments of mirth - our domineering, tomboyish, little girl.
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oh.. M.. poor thing. here sher also no bangles, etc..her ear hole is closed too!She drives us nuts.
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