A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.
I am sure all parents will agree to my next statement. Every parent has made some parenting mistakes. We did too and this was not the first but a memorable one.
Eesha became very comfortable with climbing up and down the stairs when she was around 18 months but obviously she was much much slower than us when she had to go up or get down with us. Normally she would start just climb slowly touching the wall stairs, take a break sometime, touch all the flowers in the flower vases on the way and say "Foyer Foyer" (meaning Flower Flower) and continue with her journey of going up or down.
Eventually we got busier and started lifting her in arms when climbing up or down because we were in a hurry and that's how she just lost that habit of climbing completely. We didn't realize until one day when we were very relaxed (not in a hurry) and wanted her to come up by herself.. She just refused to climb. I left her down and came up thinking she will cry for sometime and come up but she didn't! Raj lifted her and brought her up thinking she is crying just because I left her alone. We realized the problem that day and started the learning process from scratch.
So, this happened a couple of times before she again became comfortable and it was one of those re-learning days that I was too busy to even say few pampering words and call her down so I just left her crying for 5 complete minutes. She was sending some panic signals in her voice though nothing was wrong because I could still see her. She was just sitting and crying at the first stair. She was supposed to come down. I didnt lift her and let her cry.
Alice, who stays in the basement for most of the day suddenly started barking as if something is terribly wrong and she needs to be there with us at that moment. The door to the basement normally remains closed. So, I went down and checked on her and she left me down and seeing that the door is now open climbed up hurriedly and started barking looking upstairs. She looked at Eesha and stopped barking and went down giving a look at me and started wagging her tail as if she wanted to say "You guys scared the hell out of me". I realized the problem and Eesha was almost down by that time and wanted to see Alice. So, I took her down in the basement to show Alice and the first thing she said to Alice when she looked at her was "No bark". Alice didn't care but I rolled on the floor and laughed.
Anyway, but guess what! we had to treat her for relearning climbing up and down. What a silly thing to get a treat for! I thought kids are eager to do that. But now she is good (came back to normal).
Got late for office but was all worth it :)
I know Alice's photos are due but for now enjoy Eesha's! :)
