There is another way..

At times i have wondered if the way we talk and the language we use at home actually works with the children and also worry as to how my child who is not used to a certain way of talking will adjust to the outside world which is very harsh at times. The other day varsha was reading an english reader for class 1 and suddenly she called me to show something. She showed me a picture where the parents were waking up their daughter saying,'wake up, wake up, you lazy girl'. She looked at me and asked why are they waking her up like that? So i asked how do you like to be woken up and she said that we just needed to call her name and tell her to get up as it was time. After few minutes she said,'we don't talk like this but some people talk like this' and continued reading the chapter.