Newton’s third law – Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Author: utbtkids7 Jun 2007
I was going through my toddler-log from my pre-blogging times and this particular log caught my attention. I had made this log last year, a month before toddler turned two.
ACTION:
I was teaching toddler how to be nice, sweet and polite. “Baby, always say please when you want something. Say thanks when you get something from someone or when some one helps you. You have to say sorry if you hurt someone. It is nice to say welcome if someone says thanks to you”.
REACTION:
Toddler gets up every morning and says ‘Thenths(Thanks) pillow, thenths bantheth(blanket)’. I thought that she might be over doing it a little bit, but hey, being too polite is not going to hurt. But….if I hand her something that she had asked for she says, ‘Thenths spoon’ or ‘Thenths book’ instead of ‘Thanks Amma’. I tried correcting her, ‘Say thanks amma’, she looked at me and said ‘Veltham(Welcome)’ and walked away!
Same way if she knocks something on me she says sorry to the inanimate object, but not ‘Sorry amma’. If I correct her, ‘Say sorry amma’, she thinks I am telling sorry to her for some reason and says, ‘Uh-oh, thats othay(okay)’ and walks away!
So far ‘please’ is not being abused. She does say please when she wants something!
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3 Responses for "Newton’s third law – Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
very cute! and she was right – you never told her who to thank! LOL..!
Soooooo cute! Just amazing – their innocence! You wrote all this in your diary is it? I feel so bad – just don’t write such things down…feel as if I will remembe rit but I am sure with each passing phase it will get forgotten. It is nice to read about it later I am sure…
Very cute and yes it makes sense what she does – you didn’t tell her that the person has to be thanked and not the object! Smart kid! 🙂
Well come Kodi’s mom. Both you and noon caught me on the same technicality!
Noon, I have some information logged down in my laptop. There is some in the emails I sent to the grand parents updating them on how the children are doing. They are all there, safe and sound. I filed away loads of information in my pea brain, which is lost for ever! Just like you said. Don’t feel bad. If we try documenting everysingle move of theirs, we will be spending more time documenting than doing the important chores that has to be done…ahem…thats what I tell myself!
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