We were walking to the parking lot after our day at the mall when Jamaine stopped in front of a pet store. She peered through the glass window where a colorful aquarium was on display.
I looked inside the store and they had lots of aquariums, fish feeders and a variety of small fishes for pets. Is it time to give her a pet? I thought.
Jamaine actually likes looking at fishes in those bare aquariums at the grocery’s fish section. I’m sure she would love to have a colorful one of her own.
I thought I would give her a nice intro about fishes first using “Finding Nemo” as an example.
She was intent on watching it during the first scenes. I was telling her about this thing called the anemone where fishes live and that the eggs have baby fishes inside them.
We were doing fine until the barracuda came along. She hurriedly hid under her pillows. “Mommy ayaw ko niyan. Bad ‘yung fish.”
She wouldn’t go out of hiding until I switched the TV off. “Mommy, bad ‘yung fish” she kept on saying.
Uh oh, so much for a fish lesson. Maybe I’ll do this another time with a different movie. 
