For several days in a row, Daivik and me have been waving bye-bye to his little sister as we left home for the kindergarten. For the first few days, Akshara did not react, then she started flashing her magic smile. One day suddenly, she waved back !
I thought, 'wow, she is learning associations'. There was a predictable pattern to the bye-bye ritual : it happened at more or less the same time, more or less the same place (door-step) and was always accompanied by a wave of the hand, a smile and a sing-song 'ta-ta-aaa'. So my reasoning was that she has managed to associate the events as a single entity and figured out that she had to imitate it.
Daivik had a different interpretation. "Appa, look", he said, "she knows my age". Her four fingered wave was apparently an answer to a question that was never asked, 'how old is Daivik'.
I thought, 'wow, she is learning associations'. There was a predictable pattern to the bye-bye ritual : it happened at more or less the same time, more or less the same place (door-step) and was always accompanied by a wave of the hand, a smile and a sing-song 'ta-ta-aaa'. So my reasoning was that she has managed to associate the events as a single entity and figured out that she had to imitate it.
Daivik had a different interpretation. "Appa, look", he said, "she knows my age". Her four fingered wave was apparently an answer to a question that was never asked, 'how old is Daivik'.
perspective!!
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