The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : A bit more than what pre-schoolers can do

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Wednesday, Apr 26, 2006

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A bit more than what pre-schoolers can do

Special Correspondent

Madhavan can identify Indian cricketers and other sportspersons

SHOWING OFF HIS SKILLS: Madhavan with his mother Krishnaveni. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Bangalore: Former corporator M. Pari has been busy with activities other than looking after the needs of his former constituency of Bharatinagar.

His two-year-old son Madhavan has learned quite a bit more than other pre-schoolers do.

Spontaneous

Without much prompting from his mother Krishnaveni, Madhavan rattles out names of inventors such as Edison and Marconi and the devices they invented to change our lives.

Also, the names of those credited with having made the first television, helicopter, fountain pen, etc. Easier for him is to name the national flower, animal and bird.

"He started speaking his first words by seven months and could speak clearly and start connecting images with names from the age of one... the first he named was our President A.P.J Abdul Kalam, though he had a bit of difficulty pronouncing `Kalam' but soon got it right,'' says Ms. Krishnaveni.

Now that he watches TV, young Madhavan can also identify our cricket team and other sportspersons and some important world leaders.

He has started playing cricket with tennis ball with other children and can pedal a bicycle with training wheels for hours together, his parents say.

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