"TENTEEN"

My eldest son HK was an inquisitive child. As a child he loved reading. And after reading any book, he would ask a lot of questions to clear his doubts. To be honest, there were so many unexpected questions from this unique child that (very ashame to say) I couldn't provide him satisfactory answers sometimes.

At very young age, he had good ability to make deductions e.g. he told me that "Klim" (a milk power brand) was derived from the word "milk". He said letters in "milk" was spelt in reverse order and it became "KLIM". It was amazing deduction for a four-year old kid. Very "logical" indeed. Of course fact may not be though.

He was quick to learn when I taught him to count from one to ten. As I continued to teach him ... eleven, twelve and thirteen... . He listened and repeated every word after me happily(he enjoyed learning new things very much). As I continued with fourteen, fifteen, sixteen.......,  he suddenly interrupted me..........

" I know already...., seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and 'TENTEEN'."

Haha .... "TENTEEN"! Oh Dear, I couldn't help laughing! 

He had just "invented" a new number. It was so unbelievable! I was a bit shocked actually. Just can't imagine how he had applied his "deduction ability" here??

Of course he didn't know that any deduction in sequence had to end somewhere and just too bad, he overshot.

I always remember this word "TENTEEN" though it doesn't exist.