Of Stories, Drawings and Growing up……

….catching up on my memories!

A bit of monsoon cleaning led me to a long lying in the corner basket full of old papers and folders. As I rummaged through them, a yellowed chart paper folder caught my attention. As I grabbed my glasses to set my vision right, a smile appeared on my lips.

Aha! Memories from years ago.

My 3-year-old son’s “potfolio” from his kindergarten.

Those were the days…..and as a parent the innumerable ‘do this and don’t do that’ advice and ‘Oh does he…; he doesn’t’? questioning would never confuse me for I had that unshakeable belief in my child.
***My son’s Kindergarten portfolio from his IB curriculum – such a delight!***

***My son’s favourite story and his drawing is the cutest…..One thing is for sure he ain’t got my drawing traits – Nope not at all!!!***

**But his other creative side was his imagination and his desire to do everything orally.**

**Our story as we went to and fro to school each day – making up names, drawing from our** **imaginary pets and then not liking the fact that I wanted him to colour the sketching which** ***I had done.*** ***But a fact which emerged then and stays till today is his love of animals and my, my does he have a way with them.***

I tell all parents today and have told many throughout my career as an educator that a child’s biggest support is their parent. And behind every successful child is a parent who believed in them and kept their own fears aside to allow them to blossom on their own.

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