My latest fascination - The werewolves 😎

 Yes, the title is absolutely true. My latest fascination is Werewolves….as in novels aka love stories of werewolves uploaded on free reading websites…like goodnovel.com , dreame.com, webnovel.com, read me apps and so on. To give a little background information - i have fickle fascination drive - initially it was thrillers, then mythological thrillers( I still love them, but Amish Tripathi isn’t coming out with book 4 of Ramayan series), then I watched entire series of GOT…in a month, I moved on everything related to vampires on Amazon prime from The Vampire diaries to Originals to Legacies…(Ah, nothing compares to persona of Klaus Michaelson - dreamy eyes included). Then I got bored of vampires…I mean for long could I digest their drinking blood and killing people like kicking balls… 

Then , enters my new fascination- Facebook had this link from Goodnovel.com, about a love story, normally I avoid them because I hate spending money on online reads - I am a little old school when it comes to reading, smell of books is the best one. So coming back to that link , I read it…liked it they offered me few free coins to unlock few more chapters and then some more to login , read and add books to my list. I said let’s see and started. Here enters the Werewolf - fantasy enough to be away from real world, not gross like vampires exception to tearing clothes while shifting. (There is no werewolf  in India at least I haven’t read one - they belong to gore folk stories here). And I started reading one, now these people are smart, after few free pages, they ask you to top up or come the next day for free coins. Now to pass time , I started reading another - I got free coins if I read for 30 minutes everyday. My library of half read books started increasing and the first love story that brought me here was lost in this crowd. I was hooked onto these fantasy novels. 

Facebook, I tell  you is a detective because now I started getting ads of all free reading websites. So I started reading from another website , same story here for coins and all, then another, so now I have accounts on 4 different reading sites, about 40 plus books in various stages of reading ( not including the ones I deleted from my list) and all of them about werewolves. My latest vocabulary is mates, bond, shifting, moon goddess, alpha, Luna, beta, gamma, omega etc…I dream in these words, my husband is completely clueless. I can read through hours, lost in that world because maybe the real world isn’t that great right now. It’s a good way to forget the nonsense served by news channels. So till next fascination arrives it’s me and my werewolves….ready to read the next one when my kids take nap. FYI I don’t have a problem if I am not able to reach the end of any novel, you see I am a veteran mills and boons reader, I can make my own ending and be happy about them.

Don’t blame me for these weird fascinations, I blame Dan Brown, Amish Tripathi and all for not giving us books on time😔😞. So these werewolves flicks will serve the time. Don’t suggest nice realistic options to read better stuff - I am surrounded by kids stories,  cartoons, poems and games the whole day. I can only read light stuff.

P.S - I have a whole collection of really good real,  classics but they need time to read with due respect to the stories and at the moment time is a thing I can’t spare - hence werewolves here I come.

My kid refuses to talk in English…and I am ok with that

 Let me clear one thing before I start, I am an English language teacher,( a good one as per me😜) and hence people assume my kids would be experts in the language whether spoken or written. Leave people aside, even I thought I will make my kids super experts in the language I teach my students, as I will start early with them. 

My son , elder one is a calm though determined character, a Spider-Man in making. I started with poems early with him, but then he is a bit like me - he refused to follow my instructions, the dad bit in him became expert in handling phone and remote, he would change channels. I would sit there completely clueless whether to be upset about it, or smile at his antics of talking in language of whichever cartoon he was following. He never stuck to one for long. 

He is nearly six now, I am the only relaxed person at home, in view of his disinterest in talking in English consciously. Though I have observed he does talk unconsciously a lot in English  when he knows no one is paying attention.( but then a teacher’s ears are very sharp). I have realised that I can’t force this kid , you see he has picked up words like…”TABAH” and “BARBAAD” , the first time I heard them I laughed like crazy and said,” don’t kill me son,  your mom is a teacher,”, abashed he replied, “ main sab tehes nehas kar dunga”. I left the room before suffering my first heart attack.

To be honest, I am not worried about his lack of interest , my focus is that he learns to express ( which him being less talkative is a task in itself) which is the first goal of any language. I would rather he express, the language is secondary. He will learn, and I will be there to guide him. And believe me , he will do well after all he is my kid🤣. Till then, I am scared to know that which next word will he pick from his latest cartoon, currently junior Singham.

Just to add, my younger one is a step ahead, he refuses to speak if he can explain with sounds, gestures or just one word. But he repeats whatever his elder brother says. So imagine what he will learn.

P.S - let your kid speak, no matter what language because that more important. And enjoy the words they learn, and surprise or shock you with….