Have you ever noticed the glow that glitters in your kid’s eyes when he/she is about to share with you a new knowledge of something just acquired, such moments are overwhelming and adorable for life.
All you need do is use the pretence plot and not spoil the whole moment with your ‘I am the adult and all knowing’.
If your kid should come up to you and says ‘mum/dad, do you know about the mountain called Kilimanjaro?’ wait for the sign to tell if it’s an assignment or knowledge he wants to share with you.
If it’s an assignment, his/her next statement might be ‘our teacher asked us to find out more about it as assignment’, now you can go all the way to share all you know however if the next statement goes ‘our teacher told us it is the highest mountain in Africa’, now that is the sign.
What you do at this point is to place yourself as a child before him and let him/her be the teacher, ask questions he/she would likely ask his/her teacher so to revive memories of what was taught and just pretend all through.
The next time grandma or any close relative comes visiting, your kid will be so proud to share the experience that he taught mum/dad about Kilimanjaro mountain and God save them too from the lecture he might want to reiterate.
This scheme aint about this moment, it is a way to create a great friendship between you and your kid.
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