Sunday Evening
Me (To Nikhil): Any Homework?
N: No..
Me: Any Notes to be completed? Any sums to be done?… anything?
N: No. No. No
Me: Sure?
N: Dont worry dad.. I am all up to date.
Monday Morning
N (Whispers urgently): Dad.. come here please !!!
Me: What?
N: I need the prose version of this poem.. please help me
Me: I ASKED YOU LAST NIGHT…… !!!
N: Shhhh.. don’t want mom to hear…
Me: WELL I WANT HER TO HEAR..NO WAY I WILL DO THIS FOR YOU…
N: Please..please…please… jumping and turning like a dog following its tail..
Me: No Way !!! Go back to studying…
N: ok.. (but just in case leaves a paper and pencil in front of me).
I write it…the wife keeps saying hes getting spoilt because of me…
Is he? Please do tell.
June 9, 2008 at 12:24 pm |
nope…if its a rare occurrence
June 9, 2008 at 12:44 pm |
Not at all! It should be a sacred bond between a child and parent. The child should feel comfortable asking the parent to help him at the last minute. The parent should castigate the child BUT should help him. I have gone through this. Now my son will write it and with soooo much work at the last minute he appeals to me to read his work(puppy dog eyes) and correct for English spelling.
BUT do NOT do the work if the child has NO clue what the homework is all about. Then they absolutely have to face the consequences. I have been a “mean” parent and have had to put up with their sulking around the house. But if they know the work, just have not gotten around to finishing it or just want you to help out for the last part, go for it.
This is what you signed up for when you became a parent
June 9, 2008 at 2:20 pm |
You wrote it fully? Then yes you are. You could probably explain it to him and expect him to write it himself (thats what my mother used to do.. worked pretty well)
June 9, 2008 at 3:48 pm |
Holy crap. I only got you to sign my report cards. If I’d known, I’d have got my homework done as well.
June 9, 2008 at 4:14 pm |
No for one or two times.. but that should not be habit..
June 9, 2008 at 6:33 pm |
Vijay, so you are ‘Paanchi vi class se Tez ho’..
I agree with balu.. probably you could guide him to write it himself as well. You know, many a times we used to complete our home work the previous period hiding somewhere in the last bench (copying other’s notes).. Specially ‘Make your own sentence’ for some complex English words and one common sentenced used to be ‘owned’ by many of us
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so the home ministry takes care of the home work thing too ?
June 9, 2008 at 9:48 pm |
Nikhil is probably reminding his Dad on how he (dad) used to get the homework done duirng his school days or perhaps, reminding his dad to live those days doing homework at last minute.
June 10, 2008 at 3:10 am |
@Vinay: ya.. I guess..
@My3: Good Points.. sometimes I do things just so that people dont sulk..
@Balu: Knowing, Nikhil he’ll say.. “Dad write it on rough paper and I will write it neatly”.. anyhow I just jot down points
@Aditya: he he… didn’t I do any homework for you… remember I was long gone by the time you were N’s age..
@Harsha: Correct
@Veena: Home Ministry takes care of homework,Maths…
@Ram: In my time.. there was no homework
June 10, 2008 at 11:17 am |
nothing wrong in helping sometime if he makes it a habit then your HM is right. we can also take clue from balus answer. sorry for your brother aditya he missed so much of homework being done by you generation gap nikhil is more advanced
June 10, 2008 at 11:44 am |
vijay:
holy cross!!
if you were a politician sharing at least one gene with either the bushes or the gowdas, you could blame the missus (and get away with it)! question is, are you one? i doubt it.
- s.b.
June 11, 2008 at 3:57 am |
HAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!!!
This conversation sounds very very familiar to the one I used to have with my dad!!
Kids are like that!
June 11, 2008 at 9:26 am |
Big Nikhil and Little Nikhil. We have 2 Shreyas’ here. I think for the rest of their lives that is how they will be referred to, by the aunties
June 11, 2008 at 10:54 am |
I don’t wanna discuss whether you’re right or wrong..
But it gave me a good laugh.. tnx.
June 11, 2008 at 8:09 pm |
Of course you are spoiling him, without a doubt. Then again if anyone knows how to bring up a child without spoiling him/her, please tell me no? Pretty please
June 12, 2008 at 4:13 am |
@Pranesh: My fear is that he will get used to it…
@sb: unfortunately no.. blame it on me
@Nikhil: The same name…the same conversation… the same Nikhil?
@My3:lol
@jarvarm(Ganga): Thanks
@WA: Well said..well said..
June 13, 2008 at 4:12 am |
@Vijay
Well, half the same, at least.. Dad’s name isn’t Vijay, unfortunately! hehe..
June 13, 2008 at 5:18 am |
Eureka!!! Will start a portal called http://www.domyhomework.com, charge by time…market size in India – 2 billion….across th world…4 billion….at about 100 dollars per peson year, my revenue is 400 billion…that makes me Fortune 1 company…will get funding from Sequoia, Vinod Khosla, go public in 2010, list in DoW Jones in 2012, sell 0.01% of my stakes, buy a Formula 1 team and move hadquarters from Monaco to a flea village on Kanakpura road…..ladies and gentlemen, Buddha had enlightenment under a banyan tree (whatever), if you want billion dollar ideas like these, go to Jayanagar 8th block Adigas, take 15 paces to the west, stand on the platform near the rubbish, you get cosmic business ideas delivered with McKinsey decision making matrices straight into your brain’s left hemisphere between 1945 hrs and 2135 hrs….trust me, I aint joking….Vijay, will you second me?
June 13, 2008 at 10:04 am |
@Nikhil:
@Psyched: lol… this “platform preaching” is indeed out of hand