When my son taught me, what is out of the box thinking?
As a child, my son would not talk a lot; he would constantly be thinking or listening, or more I can say crying. He was born preterm. I dislike the word premature. I always feel babies mature in their own way and when they are born preterm they mature much faster since they are subjected to hardships much earlier in their lives unlike the other normal born ones. I am a Konkani, married to a Maharashtrian, post my delivery we moved to Hyderabad for work so at a very tender age my child was exposed to multiple languages. I would interact with him in Konkani,my husband in Marathi, the landlady where we stayed spoke with him in Telugu and my colleagues and neighbours either in Hindi or English. Probably, this was the reason why my son went mute till about 18 months and then he started to respond in the same language the other person would talk to him. But he was still slow to speak or rather chose not to speak. My interactions with him during those days were very enlightening and entertain...