To my eldest son, I bought a book about dinosaurs when he was five. I thought he would love to look at the pictures. But the book had more details about the dinos. The time they lived, stages of their evolution, a detailed taxonomy of the dino species and different theories about their extinction. Now that there's this little one of mine, five years younger to my eldest son, he too enjoys dinos. He's just 3 years and plays with different dino toys. He seems to know the names of different types of the dinos. He tells me this is allosaurus, this is stegosaurus, this one is brachiosaurus, and the other is argentinosaurus and so on... "tomotosaurus", "potatosaurus"... my ancient mind gets blown up. When he's in doubt, he asks me the name of a dino, by showing the toy or a pic. I tell him to go and ask his elder brother. Over time, he has come to think that my elder one is more knowledgeable than me. To little one, my elder son has become the all knowledgeable "father", and, I, an ancient dumb. Time flies!
Bangalore
28-Aug-2021
