Favourites

The other day I was driving my daughter to the clinic, when the nursery rhyme
It's raining, it's pouring, The old man is snoring..." came on.
She told me.. Different song, Akshaya;s Favourite!!!!!
I was stunned - my daughter has favourites that she can recognise and articulate? I never knew!
I asked her again and she affirmed, that this was her favourite song!
Then she said her favourite car was appa's car.
I asked her, which is her favourite fruit - she said Watermelon,
Her favourite bird - she said cockatoo!


my gosh! two things stunned me - firstly, that she had favourites, secondly that her favourites were so different from what I would have thought would have been her favs!
like I would have thought she liked baa baa black sheep or 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive for that's what she asks for over and over again in the car
her fav fruit is watermelon and I never give her that! I keep giving her grapes
Her fav bird - I would have thought it was the despicable mynah but it was the cockatoo!

An important lesson here - we must respect our children as individuals in their own right who will develop their own tastes and likes etc that we sometimes can't predict ! hjaha - I always knew that in theory - but still, took a lesson on favourites for it to become crystal clear!