Clean and dirty

You can never imagine what goes on in the mind of a kid. When they cannot speak, they absorb everything and when they learn to speak everything comes out. And after they are three the next they do is to  try out everything they see. You can never comprehend what may catch their fancy .
So I was showing my daughter a picture book, a really small picture book teaching opposites.
It was a picture book depicting pictures of 'small and big', 'happy and sad', 'empty and full' and lastly 'clean and dirty'. She was asking me details about each picture.She had seem it before many times.
The picture depicting "clean" was a small girl just about to start breakfast. The picture depicting "dirty" was of the same girl with yogurt smeared on her face.

Daughter - "Mom why is she dirty?"
Me - "Because she has yogurt all over her face."

The next day my daughter wanted to eat yogurt. She sat on her high chair and was eating yogurt while I was happy that she was busy and went to the kitchen. After some time when I came out, she was taking the yogurt and smearing over her mouth, dress and chin. She had finished eating half of it and  the remaining she was applying as if applying makeup.
Angrily I asked her what she was doing. My daughter coolly replied with an animated face , "Mom I am dirty".

Comments

  1. PriyaFebruary 15, 2014 at 4:30 AM

    Poornima add pictures of sanpoorna it will be nice to see her as clean n dirty.

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