Here comes the official announcement of the launch of Adi’s homework saga ..
She got a math addition paper from her summer camp last day and this triggered the writing cold war happening between me and Adi for a while. This time it was not that worse as before.
As usual, she did all the stuff one by one after reaching home and there came the writing slot. My goal was to at least make her complete the homework sheet. I did not wish too much and kept aside all her normal writing stuff. The paper had around 24 additions 6 in each row.. We sat near the backyard door and she started with the math. After she finished two we heard some noise in backyard. It was the residents in top floor. They were preparing for barbecue. You guessed it right. Adi got a chance for distraction. She would have toggled in and out of the backyard door one hundredth time before finishing the paper. She started it roughly around 6:30pm and finished the paper around 8pm… This was the episode
1. Do one math
2. Check the barbecue status
3. Check if her dad is safe in living room browsing laptop
4. Check if her toys are safe in playroom
5. Change the numbers 1.2.3 in table fan to check air speed
6. Count the papers in her writing pad
7. Check if her pencil has lead to write
8. Go around the whole house once for no reason
9. Check the barbecue status again
10. Try to initiate a dialogue with me
(mamma ennannu theriyuma ? {Eng: Mamma do you know something?})
I did not respond at all so she fails in that.
11. Count how many more math she has to do
Repeat all above things from point two (note down here that point 1 is missed) again Finally come back to the next math with no other option… After finishing next math follow all above checks religiously As I promised in the earlier writing post I did not pester her much and she took her own 1.5 hours to do 24 additions I was happy that she did not give up in the middle and managed to finish the paper.
Never mind the countless breaks in-between the work is done end of day. Yet another interesting(?) stuff is that she figured out two things and acted smartly
1. In first two rows the answer was mostly adding one to the previous answer
2. The third and fourth row are copy of first and second so it was a matter of copying the answer from first two rows.
M claimed that she is genetically right here and proved to be his daughter (finding all shortcuts)
This did not disturb me much as I am aware that she is good at basic addition concepts
Proudly leaving you all with the click of the completed sheet…
Between my littles and me 