Forgot Quizzing Her Everyday ?

Ever thought of  quizzing  your child? I was very much interested once, though she sometimes answered  'Manmohan Singh' instead of 'tiger'.

Yes, I mean nothing but asking questions to your lovely and talkative child. But I know the child asks you hundreds of questions everyday. You always get irritated on her complicated questions and call them meaningless or nonsense !! Why the crow is black? How the cow got four legs? See,they are not meaningless,but what else  would we do if we don't know the answer !!

But we, parents are to be inspired on the stories of the American Indian boy, who won the first prize in the worldwide quiz competition,conducted by the National Geographics!

When the child starts to hear and learn, train her to answer your simple questions such as; The colour of a crow ?Name your country ? President of America ?...??

Though the child wont catch the meaning of your questions initially, the child gets the images slowly when it sees a crow,watches the map of your country or the picture of  Mr.Obama. Our aim is but giving initial inspiration !! Allow the child to be on your laps for a limited time, when you browse on the net.

There have been some 'quiz competitions' between I and my child. Sometimes I am the quiz master and sometimes she is. Thanking her pre-school magazine for introducing an interesting story on quiz competition. It was there we started, I remember. Let it be retold shortly for your child.

"The fox,little Pachu could not win any game in the forest festival. The last item was the quiz competition. He decided to win it anyway ! The fat bear Dhimman was the quiz master. He told the bear that he would supply him enough honey,if he helps. Though first opposed,the bear admitted it on honey matter. The bear taught him only the answers in its order,as the lazy fox suggested. Dhimman got more than enough honey. But when the quiz started, the quiz master forgot the order of the questions on the influence of honey. He asked; which is the largest land animal? Pachu answered 'frog'. The bird laying largest egg? 'elephant'. One that lives in water and land? ostrich. Poor Pachu..the whole forest was laughing at him".

Start with a similar story and see your child becoming excited ! Your simple questions might inspire him to the world of encyclopedias and the mysteries of  the universe !! You can win yourself  when he becomes a great one as a scientist or a professor or a civil service officer in future.