The current moment in life has the hue of toddler parties. Birthday parties filled with jumping, tumbling and celebrating. It was one of those parties last weekend and the clown was entertaining the kids with his usual tricks of juggling and pulling the string of colorful scarf from his mouth (instead from his pocket :)). All the kids were giggling and screaming as usual.
In the middle of all this, clown filled a balloon with air but didn’t tie the end of the balloon and gave it to a kid, to hold it. The trick is to make the audience laugh when the balloon goes Swoooooooooooosh in a zig zag angle before the kid holds on to the end of the balloon passed on by the clown.
And as usual kids started laughing and clown was saying to the kids “………hey what happened to the balloon…. I gave you to hold……” in a typical clown’s tone. Here an 11 year old gifted boy said to clown that “You should say…. Newton’s third law is making the balloon to fly….”
I was surprised and was recollecting what Newton’s third law was. However, I couldn’t recall. I was thinking what fun will those gifted kids have? Why din’t the boy giggle along other kids? He is looking for reason for the cause instead. May be their fun is in discovering those reasons.
I was wondering how much challenge it is to the parents and teachers of these extraordinarily talented kids to provide an entertainment, a conversation or an activity to play on a rainy day. And how difficult it is for the kid to find a peer who could enjoy the reasoning behind everything that goes around them?
Seeing an A+ on report card may not be challenging as it is for parent like me, but it takes an ample amount patience and dedication to nurture these kids.
And Google helped my brain to gather my memory on Newton's third law :) - Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
