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October 10, 2011

Little Miss Responsible.

First grade is serious business and Ashu gets home work these days. She gets it every other week and it seems like a family project! I ll never understand why Im paying good money to school when I have to do all the work! *rolls eyes* Anyway, these "projects" have become the bane of my life now and Ashu and I are at loggerheads every time she brings work home. The first time she had to do a collage and little miss decided she wanted a zillion photos to be printed which I refused. Another time, she had the brilliant idea to list 36 household items and illustrate them all on her own! When I tried to explain to her that it might take hours and she did nt have that much time and to shorten her list, she got very upset and stomped off. I decided not to interfere anymore and mumbled "whatever" and went about my work. This was after dinner, so I got Antu ready for bed, brushed her teeth, read her a book, etc.... All this while, Ashu was cooling off in her room. A few minutes later she came to me as if nothing happened and asked if we can continue the home work. (She needed help with the spellings, thats all!) So we both sat together and worked peacefully for 30 mins. It was past her bed time so I asked her to take a break, brush her teeth and go to bed and that she can continue the rest the next day. She said, "But I ve already brushed my teeth, Amma!" I was surprised! "When?", I asked her. "Remember when I got angry and went away? I actually went and brushed my teeth.", she answered! I wish every tantrum the girls throw are as responsible as this one! Including mine! :)

8 comments:

Neera said...

Wow! Period.

TPL said...

Atta girl, Ashu!

dipali said...

Smart girl, Ashu!

Anonymous said...

you too had a responsible tantrum boo - you were getting Antu ready for bed.

SV

Meera said...

Homework.. aha malarum ninaivugal. Ensoiiii

ashok said...

impressive :)

cantaloupes.amma said...

Ah the homework and the planning / execution that follows .... makes me want to pull my hair at times. Cantaloupe had this homework where she had to collect some 10 different kinds of leaves : Rounded, palmate, compound, evergreen etc etc etc .... we searched the neighborhood, visited the park twice and got all the leaves and what do I know, the leaves are used for block print on their T-shirts and I had to do this all over again on her leaf collection book. Arghhhhhhhhh .... of course I get to know of this in the nth moment.

love sms said...

I was a child my childhood.i my imagination, my friends, family, and I've never felt anything was missed love. With a little bit more to see your brother's cousin's etc.plus such as disconnected from extended family, because I feel I want to have kids ... But then again I do not know how old am I really do not have a kids.so old.So it really upsets such as 2 is to manage before, I guess you can see all

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