Fractions

It was Wednesday evening and Ankit asked Mummy how many days is it to Friday (because he is supposed to go to a field trip on Friday).

Mummy: "One and a half days"
Ankit: "That means two days"
Mummy: "How?"
Ankit: "If you take One and cut it into half you get two".
Mummy: "That is not what I meant, I meant One and a half"
Ankit: "No. You take One apple, and you cut into half, so now you have two"
Papa: "Ok Ankit. When you want two cookies, we will take one cookie and break it into half. So you will have two cookies".
Ankit (pouting) : "NO! You dont break a cookie"

Happiness Sadness

Ankit was getting into the habit of sulking and pouting if anything did not go his way. When asked, he would say he was feeling sad.

So, one day Papa asked him to do a counting exercise. He asked Ankit to count all the happy things that were there and all the sad things that were there. If the number of happy things was more than the number of sad things, then Ankit would have to smile and feel happy instead of pout and feel sad. This worked great since everytime Ankit would have more things to be happy about than be sad about.

One day, Papa Mummy bought him a Gameboy. Like most toys bought for him, he was really excited in the beginning. But very soon the Gameboy was in one corner, the games in another corner, and the manual elsewhere.

After a few days, the Gameboy could not be found anymore. Mummy looked and looked one evening and could not find it. She decided to get strict with Ankit. He was playing in the bathtub oblivious to his Mummy's anger. She walked up to him and said:

M: "Ankit"
A (without looking up): "Haan, Mummy"
M: "You know your Gameboy"
A (still busy with his rubber duckies): "Yeah"
M: "It is lost"
A (still busy): "I know"
M: "I cannot find it"
A (popping bath bubbles): "I cannot either"
Mummy gets mad at the indifference.
M: "Does it not make you sad that you lost your Gameboy within a week of having it"
A (still playing): "Yeah, I felt sad. Then I counted the happy things and the sad things, and there were more happy things, so I felt happy again"

What can you say?

Chachi

So, Ankit watches this song "Bardasht" from the movie "Humraaz" many times. The actress, Amisha Patel, is Chacha's (Chacha = Dad's brother) favorite.

Ankit asks Chacha: Who is that girl?
Chacha says: Its your Chachi (Chachi = Chacha's wife)
Ankit: Ok..

After this, everytime Ankit sees Amisha Patel dancing in that song, Chacha reminds him that it is Ankit's Chachi on the screen.

Finally, after many such "See, there is your Chachi dancing again" dialogues, Ankit asks Chacha: "If she is my Chachi then how come you are not dancing with her and that other guy is".

Chacha is looking for a new Chachi.

Chocolate Milk

One day, on the drive home, he asks Mummy if she has brought Chocolate Dudhu for him, like every other day. She said yes, but she cannot give it to him because she does not have a clean sipper bottle in the car. She asks him to wait till they reach home so she may give him the milk in a bottle. He says, "Its ok. I can drink it from the garbage". (The milk carton is garbage to him since it is always thrown in the garbage).

Superhero

A superhero saves the entire world... helps the police, jumps over buildings, catches all the bad guys. A hero only saves people from drowning. So he wants to be a superhero, not just a hero.

And because he will be a superhero, he will need to stitch up some superhero clothes.

Ankit came to Mummy with a toothpick. He had broken it into half, and those two pieces into further half. But he could not break it any further. He asked Mummy why he could not break it. She told him he will be able to break it when he becomes stronger. He asked how he will get stronger. She said, no, when you exercise and become stronger you will be able to break it. He asked if it would make him a superhero.

Soon, he was found trying to run on our elliptical exerciser. When he got off, luckily he managed to break the toothpick even further.

What color is toothpick-breakup-man's cape?

Timeout

He gets timeout by being made to sit on the stairs without talking or moving privileges.

So, one day, he spots a dead fly on the stairs.
He asks "what is that".
"That is a fly, baua"
"Is the fly having a timeout"

Err... not exactly.

Bumblebee diet

He was left home with his Dada-Dadi.

We returned from work to find out he had been stung by a bee while in the garden. When asked what happened, he replied "A bumblebee was trying to eat me".

TV

"Do you think there is someone watching us on TV, like how we watch others".

He is worried about The Ankit Show.

Sharing

One day, Mummy was driving Ankit to school as it rained hard.

Ankit told her it is raining hard on his window too. He asked why she is not sharing her wipers with him. He shares everything with mommy.