Baby Boo goes to school....she is different

Momma says that Baby boo was the best behaved child when Boo she was inside her...Baby Boo never kicked Momma, never turned and baby boo was always hungry so Momma ate like a monster but she looked her best- healthy, glowing and beautiful..she had never felt better. Momma was happy and she thought that boo would be the most co-operative child. Boo arrrived a month earlier than predicted. Doctor said that Boo was the healthiest and most beautiful new born he had ever seen.Momma says she looked like a nine month old baby already.She was the "chubby cheeks, Dimple chin, rosy lips...very fair" child. Boo was unlike any other child. she would drink her milk and sleep peacefully.Boo never cried and slept the whole night through.Momma always wondered why Boo slept so much and at times would place her ears on Boo's chest just to make sure that her heartbeat has'nt stopped.The fairytale continued till Boo turned 3yrs old. She went to school and all hell broke loose. Though i dont remember anything clearly, i can recall that Boo was dressed in the usual grey uniform and I remeber Momma talking to one of the teachers, Mrs. Abrol (who was Baba's Office colleague's wife).Di and I had accompanied Boo to her class and left her. she came back home but was not talking to anyone of us. Next morning, the moment she saw the uniform, Boo started crying. Boo had never cried like this before. Initially Momma thought that Boo was following my footsteps and so just like in my case even she can turn her round. But sadly for the first time Momma was wrong about her child. No amount of cajoling, reasoning, bribing, scolding could change Boo's mind. The mornings became the most dreaded part of the day for us and mainly for Momma. Boo's shrill cries could be heard in the entire colony. Momma's heart broke to see her loving ,smiling baby turning into a raging screaming monster. Momma would meet the teachers and staff but no one could pin-point at what went wrong. This routine carried on for a year. Then finally one day Boo's class teacher informed Momma that her child could not even hold a pencil. Momma could'nt believe this!! The teacher said that for a year they have been trying to make her write alphabets but even after a year she doesn'nt know how to hold a pencil. She just could'nt hold the pencil with her fingers. She had no grip at all. Momma knew something had gone wrong .She started recalling how Boo was a premature baby, why Boo was so unnaturaly mild, why Boo would always sleep, why Boo learnt to roll, walk and talk much later than her first two kids,why she could'nt eat all by herself, could'nt hold her spoon,her bottle, why she always threw tantrums when Momma tried to hold her hands and teach her to write, why she would always hide or throw away the chalks and pencils. She discussed it with Baba. And they finally decided to meet a Doctor. Momma could'nt eat or sleep. She started blaming herself for being so casual, for not noticing those litle differences between her little Boo and her sisters...and Momma cried. When Di had turned 3Yrs, she was given a medium sized blackboard and colouful chalks. Di had learnt her first letters in that blackboard and I followed suit.We also tried teaching Boo but the sight of dreaded chalks made her cry.It was one of those weekdays and as usual Boo didnot go to school (the doctor had asked momma not to send her to school).She was sitting beside the blackboard, playing with her dolls while momma cooked in the kitchen.Momma enterd the room and saw a few alphabets scribbled on the board.Momma cleaned up the board and left.After sometime When she again returned to check on Boo, she could'nt believe her eyes."c","D" and "L" were scribbled on the blackboard!!! Momma was euphoric. She kised Boo and made her hold the chalk and form a few more letters but Boo's grip was lost...Momma realized she was missing something somewhere. She left Boo and hid behind the door to see what Bo was upto. After a few mintutes Boo picked up the chalk, like any another child, trying to keep her fingers firm and her grip tight and she started scribbling nonsensical alphabets on the board...Momma was pleasantly shocked. Her Boo was a normal child !!!and she could write (maybe better than what her elder two sisters could at her age).Difference was that she was a LEFT HANDER!!!She felt really sorry for Boo when she realized what torture she must have gone through when being forced to write by her right hand. She was angry with herself for not realising that Boo was a normal (rather uniquely different) child. The next day she marched to the school and announced to the teachers that Boo CAN HOLD HER PENCIL but with her left hand. Now when i think about it, i can understand what Momma and Baba must have gone through. Being told that your child is a slow learner, that she can never learn to read and write, realizing that your child maybe challenged or differnet,how scared they must have been. But then our Baby Boo is just like that!!!with her you are always in for surprises...and i remember how proud we were when we were told that Boo can wrie with her left hand. Di and I would show her off to our classmates...Baba would proudly pesent her "Lefty Daughter" and say that even Amitabh Bachchan is a lefty. We are proud of you Baby Boo.