My four years old grandson started playschool when school reopens on January 3rd 2005. On the fourth day of school I received a call early in the morning asking me to persuade him to go to school. The dialog went like this:
Tok Bah: Helloooo, who is this?
Hifzhan: Tok Bahhh, this is Babang
Tok Bah: Babang, are you not going to school today?
Hifzhan: No !
Tok Bah: Why not?
Hifzhan: Babang don’t want…….
Tok Bah: Yesterday babang went to school?
Hifzhan: Yesssss. Today Babang don’t want
Tok Bah: Babang have started school, Babang must go to school everyday
Hifzhan: Babang don’t want…..
Tok Bah: Babang go to school Babang can learn to read, learn to write
Babang: Today Babang don’t want…
Tok Bah: Why today Babang don’t want?
Hifzhan: Babang don’t want…
Tok Bah: Ok, ok, if Babang don’t want to go to school then Babang will not learn to read, to write, draw pictures and play with friends…
Hifzhan: Babang don’t want … passed the phone to his mum…
Apparently he had said to his mother that today is Saturday, Babang tired, Babang want to rest… (Wow, he must have heard this too often from his dad and mum on Saturday mornings!!!!)
Finally coaxed to go to school as it was only Thursday and he went reluctantly. .
See, how fast children learn the unintentional lessons from the parents, “what you say can be used as evidence against you!!!”
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