Lakdri ki kaathi

Devaangi is growing listening of english rhymes- the common ones that we were taught as a kid. These include baba black sheep, jhony jhony yes papa, row row row your boat, wee wiley winkey, jingle bells and so on… of all these one particular rhyme becomes favorite of bachu at a given point of time and then for days together till the time this fascination lasts bachu not only keeps humming the rhymn herself but also asks others to sing out that rhyme to her.

I remember when the fascination for jingle bells was on; bachu used to consider mom and dad as request station and would turn from one to another asking us to sing jingle bells to her. Then came a time for Guruji’s mantra jap followed by om jai jagdish hare… aajkal she is oscillating between nani teri morni ko mor le gaye and lakri ki kaathi (this one is her all time fav)

The best are the prompts or the clues that bachu gives us in between for reciting the rhymes. For example she’ll say “mummy ghoda pahucha chauk mein”. This means that start from this stanza and sing the rest of the song to her!!!

So far we have tried to ensure that bachu doesn’t watch too much TV. We however introduced her to watching nursery rhymes on computer. So much is bachu’s fascination for watching lakdri ki kaathi’s video in particular is that day in and day out she can watch lakdri ki kaathi’s video. Not only this, she also knows it very well whom to approach for putting on this video. For example she goes only to me and her dadaji for putting on lakdri ki kaathi (she knows no one else will put on the video for her J ). You must hear her say “dadaji lakdri ki kaathi laga do please”. She says it so innocently and pleadingly ki bus poocho mat and won’t let go for dadaji’s legs till the time he doesn’t agree to put on bachu’s fav video ;-)