Calista has taken to telling me the funniest things before we go to bed each night..things that happened to her in the day, random snippets or comments..
Last night, she remarked out of the blue - “air plane crash. crash crash.”
I was alarmed and a little superstitious..as her dad has been flying frequently, i absent mindedly admonished her and said “Crash? No…airplane fly..fly fly.”
She sounded a little puzzled and asked - “NOoooo? No crash????
Oh.”
A few seconds later she blurted “Meimei see the newspaper…”
That’s when it struck me that she must have been referring to the Asiana crash which was all over the papers yesterday. I was taken aback and affirmed her, telling her she was right.
Checked with my dad in the morning whether he mentioned the crash to her and he beamed, saying she saw the pictures on the front page and asked “what happened gonggong?” and he explained to her. He praised her for understanding things immediately after just one explanation.
Children can be more capable and aware of their surroundings than we expect. Shall try to remember not to dismiss all they say as gibberish or babytalk.
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