Since his last paper, our son has been working through the Tamil films I grew up on, one or two a day, entirely on his own. I am delighted, and also slightly ambushed. He quotes them at dinner and waits for me to finish the line. If I get it wrong, he corrects me. My partner, who speaks very little Tamil, has started nodding along with great confidence.
ours finished boards too. his discovery is my old cricket dvds. i now know more about 1996 than i did in 1996
Lovely. Mine is a baby and the only thing he watches is the ceiling fan, so I'm noting this down for later.
my father did this with me and old hindi songs. i still know every word of songs from films i've never seen
the correcting part is the real test. means he's listening properly
mine's a year behind yours. last summer it was old kannada film songs on my phone, and for a week he hummed them without knowing i could hear. didn't say anything in case it stopped
Saying nothing is the right call. The moment a parent mentions it, it becomes the parent's thing instead of his ❤
One suggestion from our house: let him choose the next film for you. My father and I swapped Bengali films this way when I was at college, and it was the first time we argued about something that was not my marks.
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