"Finders, Keepers"?

Raghav has been reading this one book a lot over the last few days - "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" It is a delightful story of a pigeon who is determined to drive a bus - very apt for a determined child like my son :), even though some people think it is for a preschooler who throws tantrums! (You can find more about the book here)

This afternoon he came up to me and asked: "Amma, why does the pigeon have to ask if he can drive the bus? There are some people who are 'finders-keepers'.....if they find something, they don't ask anyone, they just take it and keep it. He could be like that. Why should he bother to ask?"

I guess if you are so determined, you will find a way out of anything!....although he quickly added that he was not a 'finder-keeper', that this was after all a story and that pigeons can't drive buses anyway! :)

Silent Reading is like....

Raghav was reading a book silently while he was having breakfast this morning. Sometime later, he came up to me in the kitchen and said: "Amma, I have been reading the book without opening my mouth and sounds coming out....but I can hear the sounds of the words in my head as I am reading."
I smiled and asked him if he only hears the sounds or if he also "sees" the words in his head.
"No amma, I only hear the sounds....it is like I am talking inside my head!" :)
Some mindful silent reading that is!