My little genius

Yes, I do have a smart one on my hands. I introduced Kav very late to books. In the sense, I got a few picture books once he had learnt to sit but hardly spent any time reading it to him. He was into tearing and then chewing those books and I lacked the patience to deal with it.

Things got better around the 1st year mark. I slowly realised that he preferred picture books (ie, objects with names) to story books. So I got more & more of those. His favorite one now is an A to Z picture book. It goes through each alphabet with an example object for each. About 6 pictures per page. And I can proudly say that as of this week, Kav can point to any of those objects in that book correctly. I was the hesitant one initially and didn't point out quill or xylophone etc. I mean which child can be expected to remember something that he has not seen before and with complex sounds like that. But I had to because Kav had finished the rest of the alphabets. Infact yesterday he even pointed out alphabets like A, B, C when I asked him to, out of curiosity. That left me stunned because I don't remember pointing them out individually to them in that book.

My mom had told me not to bore him with the books and with all the pointing and reading that I do to him. She never realised just how much he enjoyed it, until he held her finger and took it to his book and made her read something out. I never ever do anything that he is not into (except force feeding, that is :)). Hope he becomes a voracious reader in the future.