A simple wish!

I play a simple game with my little one. Making wishes on stars, pretty eyelashes and all such things.

The age of innocence is yet to leave and I get to hear all pure little lovely thoughts!

The wishes are so simple they melt my heart.
I hear him wish for things like, " MUM gives me an extra kiss before bedtime ", as we get ready for school, a wish that I don't miss the school bus. Such little things make me laugh as I cuddle him and tell him it will come true.

His wishes have been such simple one's like me coming home early to spend time with him, getting to watch his favourite cartoon on TV, he playing a good tennis session, eating an extra bowl of his favourite fruit. There is nothing materialistic in these wishes, just daily basis things that make him happy.

Only children who are all so pure can have such clear thoughts.They don't relate to any toy purchases or gifts from parents, their happiness lies within them as they do those little things that please them.

I wish we can be the same but as we grow we all change!

MUM you need to be a Sportsgirl!

My little boy all of 6 years, is a tennis champion! His aspirations are simple...become a super player...his idols are all sportsmen, his cousin a super football player who has the coolest NIKE shoes and his DAD.

The discussion are intense on players, points scored, play strategy and rankings! All conversations which I am definitely not a part off!

But it doesn't end at Tennis yet, there are other sports as well. So there is football matches and related tournaments, there is cricket and IPLs. The knowledge expands to cover all sports brands, their logos and even sponsorship...a very vast information base if I may say for that age.

The discussion with friends are also on sportsmen ranking, play techniques used and life goal ambitions to become a sportsman and mini quizzes on sports brands.

How do I fit into all this? Through a step by step strategy...he has one day decided his MUM needs to be a "Sportsgirl" rather than asking him questions which he regards as highly silly!

"Mum, I will teach you cricket, there are two players and they have a bat in their hand.They need to stand behind the line called a crease and hit the ball.Got it?" says the little one as my husband looks on with a surpressed laughter!

I am zapped as I calmly tell him, I understand cricket. "Cool", pops out another question on which I am totally clueless.

" See I have to teach you to become a Sportsgirl", end of conversation!