Jr. speaks
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 9:24PM Yesterday afternoon, everyone in Jr.'s class got to watch a videotape of the Obama inauguration in their auditorium.
She aced the quiz on who is who, what the inauguration is about etc. when we asked her about the video.
Daddy, was driving on Lawrence expressway after dropping off kids at daycare and just reached work when Obama started speaking! While there was a temptation to stay in the van and listen to the radio, work called and knowing that the thing was being recorded at home anyways, went in to work.
While watching the inaugural speech, Jr. looked up and asked me
"Daddy, can only a man be president?"
I said "why do you ask that? Of course not, a woman can be a president!"
Jr. : Which woman was president?
Me : No one so far. But we did not have black President's either.. now we have a black president. we will have a woman President soon!
Jr. : I want to be President!
Me : I ask you to copy three sentences from the book and you made six mistakes! You see how long he is speaking without making any mistakes? First learn to write without mistakes and then you can talk of becoming the President!
Jr. : Okayyyyy! I will write without making misakes.. (stomped on the floor and walked out!)
For starters, the new President has provided motivational material for a few hours in this house!
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Jr., barack obama, politics, president, things kids say
Reader Comments (7)
Too good. Jr is really cute! :D
I guess you hid her from the stumble of the swearing in !!
:)
But hey, she may be President ! For all you know. Be careful about what you write about her here !~
:)
Aww so cute, but why Sundar annah did you say something so typical Tamil parent- ugh.
Doesn't that sound like something our parents would say? lol.
Hi!
Your daughter are really cute! I liked Kavi's Comment! All the big dreams start like this!
Hmmmm i so agree with Sivajini, that is such a typical Tamil parent response :(
~nm, swatantra thanks
Kavi, the judge stumbled.. Obama stopped nicely .. at least that is what I saw.
sivajini, WA..
desi response or not, already the kid is going out of control at 6+ years old and it gets very difficult to motivate her to do things.
thanks to using Obama, she has started taking a renewed interest in writing and spelling..
:)
how often does a parent get a chance to say "if you want to do xyz, you better start now!"...
:)
hey Sundar.....remember one can get more ants with sugar than with vinegar!