Connecting the dots...

Dot no. 1: Our 10 year-old son plays the Simple Interest Little League and one piece of trivia that caught his attention was that the Blackbox of an aeroplane is orange in colour.

I explained to him the reason for the choice of colour. One of his favourite films is Sully (he has a fascination for planes and cars). So we spoke about how the data that was recorded helped in understanding whether the pilots made any mistakes or in fact, did a fantastic job.

Dot no. 2: Last week, I happened to scold him for doing what a 10 year-old would naturally do - trouble his elder sister. He happened to go way beyond the levels I used to scale when I was his age. But I wasn't very happy with how I had reacted to him. And I made a note of it in the journal that I write every night. Next day I told him that I have promised myself that I won't be scolding him but I want him to help me out by not giving me an opportunity to scold. And I have written this in my journal. So we both need to help each other to make that happen :-)

Dot no. 3: He remembered about this during our discussion about blackboxes and said my journal is the same! Of course, he also wondered if we can be recorded 24 hours so that we get lot more data. (Yes, you guessed it right. He had heard about the movie The Truman Show in an episode of the Family Quiz Night a couple of days ago). That's what we do all the time - connecting the dots or should I say pixels?