Simply at home

I have always heard the saying, 'mind is a monkey'. Of late with the kind of network and connectivity, we have loads of information in much less than a click of a button. Multiple ideas and the need to jump from one source to another, not just makes us feel low in our self-esteem, but also the need to try everything.  So, as a monkey, today we try different tools and land up getting sucked into the vacuum of trying and starting something new, before finishing the ones we started. The subconscious mind is confused, there is a sense of incompletion and it keeps bring that too into our internal minds eye and suddenly we feel overwhelmed even on days when we had all the worlds time in our hands doing nothing but feel exhausted. Ever felt this? This is due to the fact that we start with a project 1 and before seeing its completion we start project2 and 3, we can if we have the intention of completing one and all. This my dear friend brings a low self esteem to the subconscious and ...

 Story Telling Day 12 Today total disinterest in listening and hence nothing kept the visuals away and tried to tell story still no interest at all. Well we needed a break I Guess. ;)

 Story Telling Day 11 We had a friend come over to visit us and both of them enjoy each others company. AIM : To attempt picture pointing to the story as I tell the story. Achieved : Initially there was a bit of a resistance since he loved to play with uncle instead of story time. But went with the flow and we showcased our story together, I voiced over and he pointed the cards in the process and response to certain questions such as how crow makes sounds and how pebbles where dropped which is something we have achieved in the previous days of story telling.

 Story Telling Day 10 Traditional style of feeding and telling story to my son. Here irrespective of how old the child is we tel the story while feeding food to child. Here i used the visual of the book too. AIM : Full sitting tolerance till entire story and dinner is over and only listening. Achieved : Sitting and listening, and some gestures too when story was told. Full attention mode achived since it was also eating time.  

   Story Telling Day 9 Today continued with Little Ganesha Story book.  And continued to tell about the story.  Aim : To associate Mango in the story to observe the mango at home. Live object association. Achieved : The moment the Mango was showed in real time, interest to eat it came up and it was snack time with Mango.

 Story Telling Day 8 Since yesterday there was a bit of "oh the same story" and disinterest. Today we are going to look into an already heard and read story of Little Ganesha and magical mango from a book. Aim : Reintroduce the story to child to check comfort into the story listening zone. Achieved : Happy to relate to mango since its mango season in India now. My lesson as a story telle r: While I have told this story many times when he was a toddler, when reintroducing this book today, realized that i have been telling this way to lengthy with to many characters and sounds to it.

 Story Telling day 7 Aim : Child to observe and relate the story heard all these days via a motion picture from Youtube. Achieved : Tired and disinterested.  We just switched off TV and searched kitchen to eat something. Now me have to get creative for tomorrows story telling See YA.