When
bringing up children one sometimes feels like standing in front of a mirror and
seeing oneself acting. Be it during lunch or dinner when the junior suddenly
picks up the full soup-bowl just because mom does it to finish her rest, or be
it when the young one is repeating what an adult is saying in the very same
tone as the adult. Even more shocking, when such words or phrases are used
regularly in the correct context. Maybe shocking is a too harsh word, but for
sure it’s quite astonishing.
Early January, when Anna, Lini and Peter were visiting us, we all were really amazed by
the way Jakob had a phone conversation with his godfather Stefan. While the
content that has been discussed (eating) was not so far out, though maybe difficult
to understand for anyone not familiar with our oldest one’s language, the real
shocker was the mimic, gestic and whatever else Jakob did during the
conversation. Markus did find himself copied in this behavior.
As amusing
as it was to watch it also taught us some kind of lesson: We better watch out
what we are doing and what we are saying as our juniors will apply as soon as
they can.
Julia,
Jakob, Kerstin & Markus
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