Quack Quack

Every parent will agree that,  as your child grows up, getting him or her to bed become a herculean task.

Day by day you have to think of a new ruse of putting her to bed. So earlier when my daughter was an infant, lullabies and rocking did the trick. Slowly as she become a toddler we were playing "Tell me a story" game. Every night she would ask daddy for a story and then me.No excuses, however tired we were, we had to tell a story. Then I came up with a new story of Wee Willie Winkie. Its a popular nursery rhyme

that goes like this.

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,

Up stairs and down stairs in his night-gown,

Knocking at the window, prying through the locks,

Are the children all in bed, for it's past eight o'clock?

So I told my daughter, sleep soon or else Wee Willie Winkie will come.

Daughter - "What will he do?"

Me - "He will take you far far away."

Daughter - "And then you will say quack quack quack?"

For two minutes I was confused as to why will I say quack quack, until I remembered another one

of her rhymes that goes like this


      Five little ducks went out to play,

      over the hills and faraway.

      Mother duck said quack quack quack,

      but only four little ducks came back.

So she had associated far far away, with the five little ducks rhyme and I could help laughing.