our cousin spent the day with us yesterday. she had an interesting conversation with abu-rabad, which i asked her to jot down for your reading pleasure. over to babli, abu-rabad’s 24 year old, buaji (paternal aunt)…<\/p>\n
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Abu was busy writing a story and Rabad was completing her drawing.<\/p>\n
Suddenly Rabad asked me, \u201cBabli buaji, how many days you are going to stay with us?\u201d I said I’d be with them till Monday morning since I had to go to office then.<\/p>\n
Both the kids were surprised to hear that I’m so much older to them. They were surprised to know that I’d completed my school, college, and now I was working in an office like papa.<\/p>\n
Of course, Rabad had her next question ready – \u201cBabli buaji are you someone\u2019s mama?\u201d Now, I was surprised and before I could answer Abu replied – \u201cNo she is not married!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n
Now Rabad wanted to know how to get married, to which Abu replied \u2013<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a girl to get married we have to find a boy for her.<\/p>\n
Once we have found a boy then the girl should love the boy and the boy should also love the girl.<\/p>\n
Only then they get married.\u201d<\/p>\n
I cannot explain my reaction to this answer in words\u2026. It was so true. I would have never been able to explain what marriage is to Rabad, in such an easy way.<\/p>\n
The complexity of the word marriage was made so simple by Abu\u2026.<\/p>\n
This incidence made me realize kids learn what we want them to learn. They are so innocent, they believe in what they see, listen and feel. They are so inquisitive about everything.<\/p>\n
Hats off to bhaiya and bhabi (that’d be hubby dear and me<\/em> ;)). Abu and Rabad are smart, intelligent and yet so innocent! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Cheers,<\/p>\n Babli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" our cousin spent the day with us yesterday. she had an interesting conversation with abu-rabad, which i asked her to jot down for your reading pleasure. over to babli, abu-rabad’s 24 year old, buaji (paternal aunt)… * * * Abu was busy writing a story and Rabad was completing her drawing. Suddenly Rabad asked me, […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":[6,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}