The effect of Taare Zameen Par

Picture speaks a thousand words, and Videos?

TV has always taken the blame of spoiling kids and here is the best example. The situation that we are facing is entirely unimaginable, it just popped up without any knowledge.

Just 2 days back Chinni's 2nd term report was shared. Me and N had been to her school to meet the class teacher. The exam books were also shared to parents so as to know the progress. Except numbering she had done well.

In the first term exam she was supposed to write 1 to 20, Chinni had written all 20 numbers. In second term she was supposed to write 21 to 70. She could hardly write a few numbers from 21 to 28 and nothing else.

Since both of us are working, we hardly get time to make her finish homework, there was no revision done. And just a day or two before the exam, N had put in much effort to revise. This was the reason I had thought of until today morning, but still worried.

When we had a look at the book, it looked like Chinni is a lot confused about a few numbers. Like 3, 7, 9. This felt like a familiar pattern. The mistake was she had written 3 and 7 ulta, as if its mirror image. And for 9, she had written P. 

After thinking about this over and over again, some shocking thoughts started coming in. Is she suffering from  Dyslexia ? Remember Taare Zameen Par ? That would have been devastating. But no, she remember a lot of numbers, identifies a lot of numbers on the streets, vehicle number plates and so on. Then what is the problem ?

Then it struck my mind. Chinni used to love TZP a lot and she has watched it at least a 100 times. Remember Ishan Avasti doing the same mistakes ? This was shocking when it struck my mind. She has repeated the same mistakes that Ishan does in the movie. What does this mean ??? The ulta numbers are printed in her mind from the movie. She had started watching the movie before even she knew writing numbers. 

Oh god, such a bad impact she has had. Blame me totally for making her watch the movie so many times. The movie is for elders and not for kids.  I really can't express, in words, how am I feeling now.

What do I do now ? I have thought of couple of solutions.
1. Make her watch the movie, sit with her and explain what is correct and what is wrong.
2. Get her some dvd's which shows her how to write the numbers.

Hope this works. This was a blunder. No wonder, we have to selectively make kids watch the tv programs.