Ah Boy and his Questions

They all say that being a parent/teacher/elder/care-giver to small kids is never an easy task as kids are naturally inquisitive and always expect answers to their burning and never-ending questions. Well, Ah Boy posed me some questions today when he was at my home today and one of them was a repeated one and rather difficult to answer...

Dialogue 1:
"Yi Yi, have you bought my Christmas present?"
"No, Christmas is not here yet. It's also your mummy's birthday, why did you only ask for your present only? What have you planned for her?"
"Err...I'm going to draw her a card and ..." (didn't catch it as I was busy with my work while talking to him :P)
"Wow, So what do you want for Christmas?"
"I don't know, what do you want to give me?"
"..."

Dialogue 2:
"Yi Yi, why haven't you give birth to a baby yet?"
"Why did you ask me this question (again)?"
"Because my school teacher say when get married, girls must give birth to replace the aging population." (I was quite surprised teachers taught that in school! Another method to encourage/influence the country's child birth rate (i.e. through the kids)? Hmm, seems like my pressure is getting greater and greater now!)
"..."

Dialogue 3:
"Yi Yi, where are we going?"
"We are going somewhere nearby."
"Where?"
"Opposite"
"Opposite where?"
"Next street."
"Let me guess, Ha, we are going to the prawn pond?" (there is a prawn fishing pond at the park nearby...)
"No, we are not going there."
"I've not been there for a long time. Can we go there later?"
"..."

Sometimes I really feel that I cannot see him as a seven-year-old kid, his actions, the way he talks and oh his appetite can sometimes be so adult-like but other times yet so cute and cheeky! :)


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