kids-titbits..

Tidbits - kids.

It was Sunday and I was in the middle of my cooking & TV, it was a Tamil music channel where the anchor of the programme was asking simple questions to the caller - not like a GK or something but like asking opinions sort. A kid from Coimbatore called and she claimed doing 4th standard in a local school. And here is the question to the kid
in your class you do fight with your friends and classmates ... do you? Kid, 'yes, sometimes'. In such occasion after some time you will rejoin again - who will initiate this talking again or who will go talk first - will that be you or you will wait for your friends-turned-foe-for-the-time being ?? The kid without any thinking or hesitance said 'I' will go and talk first'. There was a big blush in the anchors face and said 'that was a real cuuuuuuuute answer ' and said 'All the best kid' !!

For a moment even I couldn’t control my surprise - Such a realistic and genuine reply !!! Hats off...When we are all kids we don’t have this ego, head-weight, rage and so on..!!! Don’t know when we start getting them ...!!


In Bruges...

I was watching a move - "In Burges"..There was a seen in the movie when a local robber who barges in to a church seeking for a confession to the father.
Father asks "what sin you committed my son", 'I murdered a person' is his reply.’ What for did you murder ?' There was a brief silence when the father repeated the question.
"For money father. I murdered for money". Father, 'who did you kill my son?' They guy 'You. I killed you'. "What, whom did you kill ??' The guy 'Are you fukin deaf I murder you..' saying so he shot the father with is gun. 4 rounds. One of the bullets passed ahead of the room . This guy now moves in to the room to see if there’s anybody ..There was a small kid with blood strain on his forehead and a small paper in his hands - kid is waiting for his turn of confession - The paper in his hand reads (1) For being moody (2) For being bad in maths (3) For being sad.


Crickematics..

Recently there was an event conducted in Bangalore by a publisher to unveil a mathematics book for kids. This book is little unorthodox - names crickematics. Theme of the book in simple - a school kid who is very fond of cricket but not interested in studies - So that author takes cricket as a medium and tries to educate that even for cricket mathematics is important...cute !!Something like - if you don’t know how to calculate average how will you know your score average - so it’s trying to teach maths with cricket’s influence. Rahul Dravid was the chief guest of this event and most of the audiences were kids from 8 - 12 years old.

After usual intros the event was open for Q & A for Dravid. Before any questions to Dravid, Organizes asked kids to limit questions only to general topics, schools, studies and mathematics. No questions on cricket to Dravid. Having said that the first question fired to Dravid was (I think some 10 yr old.).."Uncle how did you hit Six in cricket match" After a pause of 2 seconds the whole auditorium burst in to laugh...After saying no questions on cricket...will you classify this as a cricket question ? Or a maths question ?? Kids are genius !!!!