To my surprise
If you give a 1 year old a sheet of paper, he will most likely tear it or stuff it in his mouth. And that is what Urjas did at one. He wasn't ever 'handed' a sheet of paper, but always found some lying around the house. At two and a half, he got his first delightfully colourful packet of crayons from Bhargavi maushi. The moment he opened the gift his eyes lighted up. Before this, he had used miscellaneous colouring items for scribbling and such but never 'owned' anything. This packet had 24 colours which I thought was too much for a child who had not taken to coluring. I was tempted to put it away until he turned three but before I knew it, he had already started scribbling on any paper he found. Give that his father was studying for his MBA at the time, there was a lot of paper lying around the house. Thankfully, he understood colouring only on blank areas and not printed or written ones. He first scribbled something and said it was a bird. I said 'Wow&#