Mumma kuchh bhi kar sakti hai...

The first person that we come in contact with when we are born is our mother. Right from our birth, she takes care of all our needs till we learn to do everything independently. This probably gives a child the idea that mummy is a superwoman and can do almost anything. When my son throws a toy under the sofa and can't get it himself, he looks at me. Without him actually saying anything, I understand what he wants and pick up the toy and give him. He is amazed and yet again, mumma is his hero.
When he cant open his toy box, he simply brings it near me and places my hand over it. Even in a room full of people he only comes to me to get his box of toys opened.
My niece was about 7-8 years and a tooth shaking. It was paining her very badly and she was shouting for 'mumma'. My sister was busy doing something and my niece was continuously shouting. My father scolded her 'daant dukh raha hai toh isme mumma kya karegi?' (if your tooth is paining, it will pain -what can mumma do about it?) She simply said 'kyon...mumma toh kuchh bhi kar sakti hai'. All of us burst out laughing.

Fear is only a state of mind

Fear is only a state of mind. My 2-year old son taught me this.
He was playing in the garden with his ball and suddenly threw the ball at a sleeping stray dog. The dog woke up, saw my son and went back to his sleep. My son was asking him to play ball with him. He chased the dog around the entire garden and I had to finally take him in my lap so that the poor dog could finally go back to his sleep.
My mother blows the 'shankh' every morning. My son is so scared of its loud sound, that now he cries even at the sight of it. Even if you dont blow the shankh and just bring it near him, he starts crying.
He used to cry everytime the cooker whistled. Now he has understood that its nothing to be scared of and thats the way food is cooked.
The point is we are scared of the dog because we are always thinking it will bite me. We know the harmlessness of a cooker whistle and a 'shankh'. And so, we are not scared of these things. In nutshell, most of our fears are self-made.