Kapow!

I was reading Livi a Chinese book and the picture showed a lion falling onto a rock and disloding the bad tooth that's been giving him a toothache. The picture showed the 'kapow!' kind of graphic where the lion hit the rock, to illustrate the impact of the fall and probably, the sound too.

After asking all the usual questions about like why does the lion's tooth hurt; why did he fall; did he not see the rock etc, she asked what the 'kapow' graphic was?

It's funny how we adults don't give much attention to things like this anymore. So I explained that this is to show that the lion must had fallen very hard and made a very loud sound.

"But mommy, where is it? How come we cannot see this when we fall?" It's interesting how they think right? So I went on to explain that in reality, we cannot actually 'see sound'. But this is cartoon so that's why they illustrate this for children.

After that, we experimented by saying different things, sometimes loudly and sometimes softly, to see whether we see any such graphics. Well, we didn't of coz but what a fun conversation that was with my lil darling!