I love Huggies!

As mentioned in the earlier post, mommy and daddy always finds it very amazing that our little girl can flip a book in the right way at a very young age even though we did not deliberately teach her the correct way of reading a book. We only realised this when we observed that she is always flipping books in the correct way when she was 7 or 8 months old. Even our neighbour's daughter, Je-En finds it very intriguing when she saw Sheri flipping the books in the right way. Acording to Je-En's mom, kids usually do not know the correct way of handling a book when they re 7 or 8 months old. To them, a book is just another object that they can play with. Being unconvinced like us, Je-En tried testing our girl many times by giving her books that she has never seen before. Surprisingly, our girl managed to pass the test every time. So, mommy and daddy always think that our girl knows how to handle a book in the right way because of where the spine of the book is located. Frankly, we do not believe that she can look at the letters in the book and know the right way to read the book when she was 7 or 8 months old. Well, at least, we believe that we were not capable of doing that when we were at her age. To prove our hypothesis, we tested her a couple of times in the past by giving her stuffs like, pamphlets and documents, which do not have a spine, so there is no cue for her to rely on how to handle the stuff correctly. Amazingly, she passed all the tests, so this proves that our hypothesis is incorrect.

Recently, our little girl loves to say the word 'HUGGIES' when we apply the 'HUGGIES' baby lotion on her after bathing. When we passed by a stack of 'Huggies' diapers at the grocery store on Friday night, daddy decided to ask our little girl whether she knows the word 'HUGGIES' on the diaper box. For your information, we do not use the 'Huggies' diaper, so daddy is just trying to test if Sheri can recognise the word 'HUGGIES' on another item. Without much hesitation, our little girl said,"HUGGIES".

Being unconvinced about the result, daddy decided to carry out another test on our girl to see if she really knows how to read the word'Huggies' or it is just purely a coincidence. This time, he decided to ask her the same question using another brand of diaper box. Our little girl did not utter a single word when she saw another brand of diaper box. To further investigate the matter, daddy decided to do one last test on Sheri. He wrote the word 'HUGGIES' in front of her and asked what the word was. "HUGGIES!", exclaimed our little girl.

Finally, we can either conclude that our little girl really knows how to read the word"HUGGIES"or the company that markets the baby products 'HUGGIES' has done a very good job in choosing a name that kids can relate to.

The word 'HUGGIES' is a new addition to the list of words that our little girl can recognise. So far, she can recognise her own name and words like 'cat', duck', dog, ball', 'hat', 'egg' very well. We firmly believe that every kid has their own special ability and interest. The onus is on parents to recognise them and try to help them develop to their fullest potential.

For our little girl, we find that she shows a keen interest in reading and she knows how to handle books in the right way at a very young age. She also has a keen sense of numbers when she was one year old. She never fails to recognise herself in pictures ever since she was 7 months old and she loves to watch her own productions. Mommy hopes to document this so that our little girl can read about this in the future and perhaps be amused by her own special ability.