Some DNA Talk

Are the children these days unusually swift at growing and perceiving stuff, which the parents claim to have not known, when they were of the same age?

I have always heard men and women lament about the way the children KNOW THINGS! And I wonder at times, are not these lamenting another way of absolving oneself of the ‘dirty’ OMG content, at their proper ages.

We would naturally feel surprised seeing a two year old on the touchpad. The gadgets we came across during our teens or twenties are like rattle or teether to the toddlers. Each generation is definitely smarter than the previous, is what I have heard. But I really don’t know, and I wonder how it can be so. Are these kids really more intelligent than their parents and grandparents or is it just that having access to gadgets brings in that familiarity element enabling them to use all of these with a natural fling?

So so so , if a kid speaks about a crush/kiss or talks without delicacy about such ‘forbidden matter’, why do the parents/elders panic as if they had seen a Frankenstein! Did we not think of all these when we were their age? I think we all knew imperfectly though, about all these and we had had that same curiosity, that same feeling in us. But we were less open, and more of pretenses. We seldom got a chance to be so open, because our parents were different too. It is a happy way the parents let the children be their friends and listen to their titter tatter a lot.

My son who is in standard one, told me that his friend likes two three girls and how one little girl got envious when this little prince charming danced with the other cindrella. He told me “Amma, these girls are like the South Poles which repel and Raja is their North Pole”. I was super glad at his use of magnets know how, for drawing similes and joined in the laughter. In between that curious mom in me, asked casually, “Monu, which girl do you like (at age seven)?” He replied sweetly, “I like only one, My Teacher”. Oops! Great! Yes, he is innocent! Gosh! Its Okay, I inhaled deep and rolled with him again tickling him.

By the way, he asked me, “Amma, how your DNA joined with Acha’s ?” EEEEK! What do I tell a seven year old, about fertilization and zygote and how Acha’s and Amma’s DNAs ‘join’. I put it on God. He said that’s fine, “but still how God could join them, they are inside your cells, na?”. I replied that he would learn all that in high school. I pleaded memory lapse about my science lessons, promised to read and refresh my memory and tell him later. When will that later come again, I am keeping my fingers crossed!


On an after thought:
My biology teacher in 10th std, was explaining that a hen's unfertilized eggs would not hatch.. She said - if suppose in your house there is a hen , but no cock, then..... I interrupted: Teacher what if my neighbour has one? 
There is a saying in Malayalam: "Mathan Kuthiyaal Kumbalam Mulaykkumo", meaning , if you plant pumpkin will ash gourd germinate?"