A conversation I overheard between my two older children. The background - child 2 did not want to take a bath, even though Viggy had told her to.
Child 1: It's right after Yom Kippur and you have to honor your father and mother! So if Daddy says to take a bath you have to take a bath.
Child 2: But I don't want to!
Child 1: But you have to listen to your father!
Child 2: But D is going to bother me.
Child 1: So there are a couple things you could do. You could ignore her, or you could tell Daddy to make her stop.
Child 2: OK, I'll do that.
At this point I peeked around the corner, only to find that this calm, relatively mature conversation was taking place like this:
Ahh, stistarly love.
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Has anyone else noticed that their kids' questions tend to be either really obvious, or completely incomprehensible?
Today a child came into the kitchen holding a box of cookies. "Mommy, listen!" she ordered, shaking the box, which made a rattling noise. "What do you think is making that noise?"
"I think it's the cookies, honey," I told her.
"Wow! How did you know?" she wanted to know.
A minute later, the same kid comes back. "Mommy, what was that pink thing that we liked to eat?"
Uhhh.... (the answer, by the way, was coleslaw. Now why didn't you think of that?)
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Another question I got today:
Child (holds up skirt): Mommy, what is this?
Me: What do you think it is, honey?
Child (thinks for a minute): ...I think that you think that it's a skirt.
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Did I ever tell you about our trip to the zoo?
So after we went to the local zoo, I asked each of the girls what their favorite animal was that we had seen.
A most liked the baby chickens and "the ones with the stripes" - aka lemurs.
N most liked the pigs. (Toward the end of our zoo trip Adi had started crying at the thought of seeing one last exhibit, so we said we would go, so then N started crying at the thought of not seeing that one last exhibit - so I ran with her and D over to see the pigs while everyone else headed to the exit, and then we ran back to meet them there. And she liked them best - I guess it's true that you most appreciate what you work for.)
They were very impressive pigs, too. Boars, really. Enormous.
D most liked "the lions. And the bears. All the ones that said RAAAAAWRRR!!!" Like the tigers? "Yes, also the tigers. And the pigs."
"Pigs don't say roar, honey. Pigs say oink."
"NO THAT'S NOT TRUE PIGS SAY RAAWWWWWRRRR!!!!!"
"Okay."
Child 1: It's right after Yom Kippur and you have to honor your father and mother! So if Daddy says to take a bath you have to take a bath.
Child 2: But I don't want to!
Child 1: But you have to listen to your father!
Child 2: But D is going to bother me.
Child 1: So there are a couple things you could do. You could ignore her, or you could tell Daddy to make her stop.
Child 2: OK, I'll do that.
At this point I peeked around the corner, only to find that this calm, relatively mature conversation was taking place like this:
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Has anyone else noticed that their kids' questions tend to be either really obvious, or completely incomprehensible?
Today a child came into the kitchen holding a box of cookies. "Mommy, listen!" she ordered, shaking the box, which made a rattling noise. "What do you think is making that noise?"
"I think it's the cookies, honey," I told her.
"Wow! How did you know?" she wanted to know.
A minute later, the same kid comes back. "Mommy, what was that pink thing that we liked to eat?"
Uhhh.... (the answer, by the way, was coleslaw. Now why didn't you think of that?)
****
Another question I got today:
Child (holds up skirt): Mommy, what is this?
Me: What do you think it is, honey?
Child (thinks for a minute): ...I think that you think that it's a skirt.
****
Did I ever tell you about our trip to the zoo?
So after we went to the local zoo, I asked each of the girls what their favorite animal was that we had seen.
A most liked the baby chickens and "the ones with the stripes" - aka lemurs.
N most liked the pigs. (Toward the end of our zoo trip Adi had started crying at the thought of seeing one last exhibit, so we said we would go, so then N started crying at the thought of not seeing that one last exhibit - so I ran with her and D over to see the pigs while everyone else headed to the exit, and then we ran back to meet them there. And she liked them best - I guess it's true that you most appreciate what you work for.)
They were very impressive pigs, too. Boars, really. Enormous.
D most liked "the lions. And the bears. All the ones that said RAAAAAWRRR!!!" Like the tigers? "Yes, also the tigers. And the pigs."
"Pigs don't say roar, honey. Pigs say oink."
"NO THAT'S NOT TRUE PIGS SAY RAAWWWWWRRRR!!!!!"
"Okay."
Yes, PIGS SAY RAAWWWWWRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! Your children are all of the smart.
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