Friday, June 25, 2010  Son and I  As modern-day parents, we are
constantly struggling to keep unrealistic ambitions for our son
in check and trying to give him the best that we can. The
efforts include my telling him the story of Gupi Gayin Bagha
Bayin in English at bedtime. Most of the other
efforts/interactions are also similarly mismatched (though the
GGBB story was a hit). Some examples are reproduced below.  
Getting him to watch football (or for that matter, any sport) is
very difficult. Impossible, if ads (preferably Zoozoo) don't
come at regular intervals. Therefore, I have to watch the World
Cup with a constant background whine of "I wanna watch
Tinkerbell". Oh - don't get me started on boys watching pixies
and fairies. The only time he perked up during yesterday's
Italy-Slovakia match was when there was a tussle inside the goal
with the Slovak goalie tangled in the net and an Italian forward
nearly got into fisticuffs with him. And when a particularly
loud strain of Vuvuzela was accompanied by the