{"id":19,"date":"2008-06-25T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T11:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-07-03T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T08:49:36","slug":"cross-check-and-double-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/cross-check-and-double-check\/","title":{"rendered":"cross-check and follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

so, the day before hubby dear had this conversation<\/a> with rabad…<\/p>\n

rabad – “mamma, when i grow up, i’ll have a pee-pee like abu, right?” (i think i sensed hopefulness in her tone)<\/p>\n

me – “no baby, we were made girls and girls pee-pees are different from boys”<\/p>\n

rabad – “but, why?”<\/p>\n

me – “uh…..that’s how it is…”<\/p>\n

rabad – “why did you make me girl, i wanted to be a boy”<\/p>\n

me – “oh…uh…if you were a boy, you wouldn’t get to wear pretty skirts and frocks, clips and hairbands, bindis and bangles…”<\/p>\n

i’m thinking really quick while i’m talking…this is not the right answer, what makes me like being a woman…being treated like a woman, that i think rabad is already making full use of (read foot note)…what else, what else…getting away from the traffic cop…no, bad idea…absolutely wrong time to tell her the things i hate about being a woman…<\/p>\n

“how will you have a baby? only girls can have babies” BINGO! (she loves the idea of having a baby of her own)<\/p>\n

rabad – “abu will not have a baby?”<\/p>\n

me – “no”<\/p>\n

end of conversation….matter disbursed for the time being…<\/p>\n

after listening to the conversation between hubby dear and rabad, i get this feeling that rabad was double-checking and was clarifying her follow-up queries.<\/p>\n

maybe we are goofing up. but how do you tell?
\n—<\/p>\n

this happened last year, rabad was 3. we had been to a restaurant with a few friends recently. abu and rabad usually take off their shoes so that they can sit cross-legged.<\/p>\n

at the end of the meal…<\/p>\n

rabad – “you put on the shoes for me, pappa”<\/p>\n

hubby dear – “no, on your own”<\/p>\n

rabad, turning over to her friend ag<\/em>, who is was 5 year old little boy – “please put shoes on for me”<\/p>\n

ag<\/em> dutifully bent over and put her shoes on for her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

so, the day before hubby dear had this conversation with rabad… rabad – “mamma, when i grow up, i’ll have a pee-pee like abu, right?” (i think i sensed hopefulness in her tone) me – “no baby, we were made girls and girls pee-pees are different from boys” rabad – “but, why?” me – “uh…..that’s […Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,4,3,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}