Learning...

Arjun is great with respect to vocabulary... He speaks sentences and can identify so many words that I am astounded... His knowledge of animals is very interesting and keeps growing by the day...

Just the other day he was talking to me about the Sumatra Tiger and the Sting Ray fish and the Cayman Lizard... Whaat? That was my reaction too...

But then when it comes to learning what we need to learn in school, he refuses to buckle down... Take a slate and start writing A, B and C and he will run away.. Start writing down numbers and he will direct you towards playing with his toy animals...

We need to come up with a strategy to get him to sit down and work on the alphabets... The indulgent mom in me asks me to wait for some more time till he himself is ready... the pushy mom in me asks me to schedule lessons... while the worried mom in me is convinced that he will reach the age of 30 without ever learning his alphabets and numbers...

Hmmm.... Is there a lesson somewhere there for me?