Tiny tots of today, Careful, the damage they inflict to your image is beyond repair.

Sooooooo cute ……… Cho Chweeeeet………………..Ennama pesardhungare…….

Today’s generation of toddlers get more exposure than even the ones a few years older than them. Television has invaded our lives in all possible ways and has had all sorts of results - good, bad, hilarious, boring, academic, encouraging………… the list is endless.

My sis is eight yrs younger than me and has given me the greatest number of “bulbs” or “buns” or whatever.

Sis: Coffee kodhikardhu.
Me : Coffeeya sooda thaan kukdippanga
Sis: Coffeeya sooda kudippanga, kodhikka kodhikka kudikka mattanga.
Me : !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Chittappa cannot forget this from my sis. She was in fourth std then…….

Chittappa : (Trying the age old trick of asking someone to sniff their palm and hit them on their nose to make them sniff camphor) Un kaila karpooram smell vara vekkatuma ?
Sis: veingo pakkalam.
Chittappa : (After completion of the trick) karpoora vasanai vardha ?
Sis: aan vandhudhu chittappa. Ippo naan ungalukku panren
Chittappa : (in the belief that small children do the same things that u do to them) ok pannu pakkalam
Sis: kaiya mondhu paarungo.
Chittappa: (held her hands together so that she could not hit him) Varliye …..
Sis: (without any attempt to hit him) varla illa ? varle illa ? kandippa ?
Chittappa: illa endha vasanayum varla.
Sis : Eppadi varum, kazhudaiku theriyuma karpoora vasanai.
Chittappa : !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was my mom’s turn

Mom : Dei pasangala, 11:00 mani aayduttu, vango sappidalam
Me: Enna ma avasaram, 11:00 thaane aaradhu, ippo thane konja neram munnadi choclate ellam saapittu, coffee kuducchom, porummaya sappidalame ma….
Mom : enna porumaya, idha vida enna porumaya ? 11:00 manikku kooda sappdalena eppadi.
Me: Yen frnds veetula ellam leave naal la 2:00 manikku thaan saapiduvaalam, theriyuma ?
Sis: Cmon da anna, ava aatula ellam pasiccha saapiduvala irukkum da. Namba aathula thaan time aayduttunu sappadunumacche…………..
Mom : !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me : Harp Harp Harp Harp Harp………………………