P-h-i-l-o-s-o-p-h-y

I saw the boy watching the Spell-It-Right (SIR) program on tv the other day day just before we were about to have dinner. I saw that he was really concentrating on watching it as what he would have done when he was watching his normal cartoons. So during dinner I asked him about what he had watched and he said that if there is a similar program in school he would like to give it a go.

So there I was shooting some words to him for him to spell, until at one point he said " Baba, those were so senang kacang lah" (Dad, that was so easy-peasy). Ok then then I start moving to three syllable words and find that he can grasp the concept of breaking the words into smaller chunks and starts spelling it.

Fine, it must have been a fluke for him. Then I decided for a more difficult words :

Me : " OK, if all those were so senang kacang then how do you spell philosophy?"
The boy : " p-h-i-l-o-s-o-p-h-y, philosophy" akin to the responses on SIR.

Me & the mrs looked at each other with our mouth wide open in awe. Next time this week I'll make sure he's not going to miss the SIR. This is one program that have piqued his curiosity and made him wanting to learn, and its good if they could come out with similar programs for the young instead of the monster bashing, kungfu fighting, talking creatures that we have now.