It warms my Heart when I’m watching a video or reading a book and one of my daughters comes out of no where and says, “Piper!” or “Grayson” or any of the birdies’ names. Basically what happens is if they don’t know the type of bird it is but we have one, they identify it by our pets’ names. So Piper goes for all quakers. Ringo goes for all indian ringnecks and so forth. They know that African Greys are african greys. I thought about teaching them their alphabets through parrot types for example:
A for apple would be A for African grey
B for Boy would be B for Budgie
C for Cat would be C for Caique
However just because Parrots are MY thing doesn’t mean it has to be their thing and I accept that. That’s why if they express an interest in a different type of pet, I’m open to looking into it. My son has a bearded dragon for years now. When the rest of the kids get older they will have their option of either investing more time with one of the parrots we already have or choosing their own pet. I can’t lie though, to see them take an interest in my parrots does warm my heart and makes me a proud little mommy.
