From My Brain

One of the most wonderful habits about M is his love for books and reading. 

Every so often, he will pick up a book from our vast collection and just sit quietly, comfortably in a corner and read on his own. That is how he chills.... 

Every now and then, he would volunteer a piece of interesting detail on topics that we were talking about during our conversations. Sometimes I am surprised by how and where he has learnt them from. 

So I often asked ... 

'Wow! I am impressed! How do you know that? '

'Oh! I didn't even know that! Where did you learn that from?'

He would say ...

'From my brain!'  or

'Oh I am very clever!'  

Hmm...  that is not very modest of him. But he has never said it to brag. He always states it as a matter-of-factly, as if it is just another piece of information.

I have always consciously avoided making praises like 'clever boy!' to my boys. I do praise efforts a lot though and teach them the importance of 'feeding their brain'. Perhaps that explains his first response. He reads widely and we do discuss a lot. So all that goes to his brain. 

As for his second, I guess it must be a conclusion he has drawn from comments he got from others. 

His class teachers commented in his term report last month .... 

'M has very impressive understanding of concepts and his general knowledge on a wide range of topics is amazing for a child his age. His English language foundation is very strong and he has such a great love for books. He has made commendable improvement in Chinese and is in fact, one of the few with the biggest improvement in the past 6 months'.

One day, a while back, he came home and told me some incidences that happened in school. He ended with 'I am the cleverest boy!' 

Hmm...