Of MRT Ride I

The daily morning ride in the mrt gives a good opportunity to people, especially so as standing for over 18mins provides a bird's eye view to my surrounding, except for the fact that there are other birds standing around..haa

Today, a pram was parked before with while a mother had her daugher sitting on her lap in the priority seat. The girl must be around 4-5 years old, her language ability and mannerism impressive. Mummy was guiding daughter in completing a workbook where one had to draw the other half as a mirror image to complete the picture (think half of a spade shape waiting to be filled, half a house, half a face etc)..

What impressed me was the mummy's patient in guiding and also how she allowed the child to have space to experiment and attempt at making the shape out first, when help was needed, mummy step in but didn't take over fully, holding on to her small gentle hands, the pencil was guided to form a closer likeliness to what the exercise required..

What stood out in today's observation was something that the daugher did without asking. When drawing the other half of a door to a house, she instinctively added a door knob to the door. Now that was not required as the exercise requires draw out the mirror image of the door, just a simple outline will suffice, but this young lady was inventive enough to decide that a door needed a knob.

Here comes the question, did the mother correct her daughter for adding the door knob or not? Would she be right to correct her daughter?

More in the next post.