Imitation

I got this pair of retro-looking spectacles from a company DnD. Hee... Looks cute on En huh?

En loves to imitate the adults at home. He will slip his toddler's tiny feet into his grandmother's house slippers and flop around with them. Never mind that they are twice each foot's length and with each step he takes unsteadily, he threatens to trip over them. He will also wear my shoes, pa pa's shoes and grandmother's shoes and try walking around in them. Everytime he wears a chequered shirt, he will say its Grandpa's shirt cos my dad always wears chequered shirts!

Kids really imitate their parents or caregivers so we have to be careful what we say and do. I once uttered "Alamak" accidentally and he thought it was a really funny word so he kept repeating it and laughing each time he said it. This is really the time to keep the profanities away (not that I speak a lot of them!). Even when we wish to criticise other people, we have to watch our tongues cos our little ones are abosrbing and learning our value systems. Its timely I guess that we also watch our tongue as the book of James in the bible does say that our tongues are deceitful and can cause a forest to be on fire (i.e., cause huge damage!).