My son, the philanthrophist!
Wednesday, 4 April 2007

Yesterday, P and I decided to go to the next town to visit his cousin so he can have a play date with some family. His dad was at work and P was quite puzzled by the fact that his pater was away working and not having off-days and play dates like him. When we saw more than usual number of cars parked in the nearby streets, he was prompted to remark 'lots of daddies are at home today, mummy.'

I said 'yeah, possibly.'

He carried on, 'but my daddy has to go to office. To earn money so we can have mumm-mumm (food)'.

Me (absently): Uh-uh.

P: Then we will have loads of mumm-mumm and we can give some to Paris.

Me (startled): What? Paris? Why?

P: Yeah. If we give them some proper mumm-mumm, they can stop eating froggie legs.

Posted by DesiGirl 09:55 10 comments  

Labels: children, food, paris, philanthrophy, wisdom

*sigh*
Wednesday, 3 January 2007

Me: Pratik, you must start eating more food, you are almost 5 years old.
P: Why?
Me: If you eat lots of food, you'll be big and strong.
P: No, I don't want to be big and strong.
Me: Why not?
P: If I'm too much strong, i'll break everything.

*sigh*

Posted by DesiGirl 23:11 2 comments  

Labels: children, Pratik, quips

From the mouth of babes...
Saturday, 9 December 2006

Today morning, Pratik woke us up as he was getting quite panicked at the wastage of daytime. When I asked him what the time was (he is rather prone to wake me up well before the crack of dawn on Saturdays), he checked his dad's mobile phone to be sure. As that contraption didn't have any numbers on it, he could be heard muttering "the big hand isn't pointing to any number, the small hand isn't pointing to any number, then what o'clock is it?" Then he turned to me and went "Mummy, it is none o'clock!"

Needless to say, I got up!

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The other day, my choice of dinner menu came up for discussion. P wanted to eat fish and wondered why I did not cook him fish for dinner. Self, being a staunch vegetarian, decided to utilise this chance in educating him about the feelings of animals and what have you and wean him off meat. So I replied: "I do not like to kill animals and eat, Pratik." Pat came the reply: "You needn't kill it mummy, somebody else will kill it for us!"

*sigh*

Posted by DesiGirl 18:28 1 comments  

Labels: children, desigirl, family, Pratik