My 4 year old primarily speaks
Hindi, with some English words thrown here and there. This was a conscious
decision taken by us because we wanted him to learn and speak his mother tongue
but we were aware that his education will be in another language “English”.
So when he turned around 4 and I could see that he comprehends the difference between both the languages I
thought it was the right time to teach to him the language.
But No.1 disagreed..it was not
his idea of spending free time with his mum. He wanted to play , fight, paint,
dance etc etc.You see, he cannot sit at one place.....has attention span of
about 1 minute....and is remotely not interested in anything that his mum wants
him to learn.
I call it “the Mommy disorder”.
Well i had the worst case .Everything
that he associates with studies...he disassociates with me, mumma for him is
for everything else BUT not studies. I wanted him to learn but not by force and
pressure ...hence everytime i would teach him something he would run away and
say “Oh mumma..stop talking about it pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
So in order to tackle the
disorder and make learning interesting for him. I devised a devious “Mummy plan”
...... Games incorporating everything that he likes...running around, painting,
hitting, dancing and what i want to make him learn....
I have divided things that he
needs to learn in two parts: Daily conversation and comprehensive language
learning.
