tintin accompanied me to his school on saturday morning for open house. the one-hour session involving him being grilled by his teachers in maths, english, hindi, gk, story telling, et al. tintin did WELL> his report card was full of As. His class teacher Nancy was full of praises. thankfully, she understands that he is imaginative and draws diff pics against alphabets not necessarily taught by her @ school. she said he has become naughty though :) i have no complaints about that...she said once tintin apparently complained about me, saying he once told her that i am very liberal with Taran, a neighbourhood boy, who bashes him up...tintin apparently felt that i never rebuked him for being nasty. "my mumma does not love me" is what he apparently told her! that was quite a shock for me....anyways, I have been careful since. I told tintin that he need not expect me to intervene and instead, tell those who bully him that he would report to their moms if they misbehave. that has worked ;) we are team after all
btw, the book that i wrote on tintin "the boy who taught his mum" has been approved by one of the UK publishers. they have asked for the full manuscript, which i submitted on saturday. fingers crossed. happy. very very happy. for US