Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

Our 6.5yo Anya has this love for writing.

Every single day she’d either draw and write a story next to it. Or, she’d simply write. Something.

A little note. A short story. A long story. Anything.

And the other day, she showed me this.

The story of David (from the Bible).

In INDONESIAN.

*smile*

I love how she used ‘every day’ (spoken) words in her story. Words that we actually are not ‘supposed’ to use if we were to write a ‘proper essay’ in Indonesian.

And.

To me, what’s more important is her attempt to do something different.

To write something in another language.

To step a little away from her usual comfort zone.

…

Anyway.

To those who’re not familiar with ‘Bahasa Indonesia’, this is what she wrote:

One day there’s a child named David.

He can kill a lion. Also a bear. To look after the sheep.

One day a wolf came to eat sheep.

Sheep is scared.

When he’s big, he would become a king.