English is fun - ParenthoodDiaries #89

 English is fun at times.

We were trying to teach English to Bharat & Bhuvan. In that process, my husband asked them one day - "What is your mother tongue?"

One of them replied - "My mother tongue is in my mother's mouth"

Later, when we explained them what mother tongue is, they asked - "ok, then what is father tongue?"

What would I say, well, I said - "Only mother tongue is considered, there is nothing like father tongue"

They were like - "Why only girls have tongue on their name, why not boys?"

Now this adds to their growing list of such questions, another one has been - "Why only girls can deliver small babies, why not boys

?".

I'm realizing that we cannot keep gender away really, though we don't want kids to feel any gender differentiation.