Good day y'all and thanks to all those who wished me a happy birthday on my last article. Thanks for all the well wishes, prayers, compliments and blessings. I wish you all same too, I felt happy and loved when I saw all the messages 😍😍🎈. Indeed I have awesome friends here!

I don't really have much to write about today as I have been feeling rather demotivated since my a day before my birthday, burn out I guess, happens sometimes to me. So allow me to introduce you to these two lovely children.

I had wanted to post them here on children's day but they were nowhere to be found when I got ready to take their photos. We call them Mama and Zully. They are my cousin's children and they came to visit for sometime. Now the interesting thing about these two children, despite being 5 and 3 year's old respectively is that they are much wiser than their age, of course that's not so surprising of children of this generation but these two have a sort of wisdom that just leaves you in awe😅. They have great observation skills and while they seem like kids outwardly, they've got really old soils.

The other day, the one with the blue hijab who's the elder one, that's mama, saw me going chatting on whatsapp with a friend and we were sending voice notes back and forth to each other. I got called so I dropped the phone on the bed without locking the screen. I got back to see this girl recording her voice on WhatsApp with the voice note icon and I seriously cannot remember when she saw me doing that because I hardly even chat on WhatsApp let alone do voice notes, for a kid her age one has to do something repeatedly for her to be able tp grasp it. Neither her mom nor dad uses an android phone so there's no way she would have learnt that from them. The most annoying part is that when I caught her recording a voice note, she was singing nursery rhymes!! When I asked her how she learnt how to do that, she just smiled a knowing smile and I was like, "oh...".

The other one whose mouth is wide open like crocodile's, is the most mischievous and cunning amongst the two, despite being the younger one. You could tell that from that hilarious smile on her face 😂. She's the plotter, planner and master strategist. She's exceptionally good with numbers for someone her age. She's got the moodiness of a teenager and the charisma of a successful business person. Sarcasm seems to be her think even though she barely knows how to pronounce words. She's the one who always hides their school uniforms or the books in hopes that their mother won't force them to go to school since they can't find them, but little Zully isn't that good at hiding and always gives herself away in the end. Gets easily annoyed when not in the mood to play, you could just touch her and risk hearing her cry for the next hour!!

Are kids in today's generation wiser than us when we were kids?

I am sure that we all know that one little kid who's too smart for their age when we were kids, but do you realise that most of today's kids are smart? You do know those cute little children who belong to your sisters or brothers who are pretty smart for their age because I am sure I am not the only one. Kids these days pick up cues easily and have great deduction skills. They easily put two and two together and make sense out of something in their own way. Perhaps the latest developments in technology and science have something to do with this trend I don't know. Perhaps it's just evolution thereby sharpening their senses, this too, I don't know.

For this reasons, now more than ever , there's a greater need to be extra careful with our words and actions when the kids are around. They pick up cues in instances and before you know it, they start copying you. I somehow envy kids for how fast they are in learning new things, the brain is still fresh, the mind still innocent, and endless possibilities ahead of them. I think I would be way less of a dumbass than I already am lol😂😂.

Thanks for reading guys.

Yours Layly,

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