So me and my daughter always have this discussion, when I sit down to make her write the alphabet.
Me: Hanaa write the letter H.
Hanaa: I don’t want to, mommy.
Me: If you don’t write, how will you be smart?
Hanaa: I don’t want to be smart, I want to be cute.
Me: Well only the smart girls can be cute.
Then she starts crying and whining saying, “but I don’t want to be smart,I want to be cute!”
So we are going on with this debate, yes-no, yes-no. Along this everyday normal debate I keep working side by side (Mother’s ability to multi-task). As I was working, I was trying to print something, but it was showing error every time I press print. Later, I knelt down to the printer with my daughter and said, “okay, you don’t have to be smart ,only be cute. Now let us check why the printer is not working.” She stopped crying, all happy cause she is cute ,not smart. Came beside me to the printer, Saying “Mommy I am not smart (all happy and giddy), and no papers mommy”.
Me: What?!
Hanaa: Yeah, no papers in printer mommy.
So,yeah my daughter doesn’t want to be smart, she just wants to be cute.
A woman’s diary 