Strange Conversations
Posted on July 3, 2010 - Filed Under Kids | 4 Comments
Some of the odd convos going on around here:
Dante: “Dis bottle is too really wheeeee!”
Irving: “What?!”
Me: “He means slippery.”
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Me: “Dorian, why do you have oatmeal in your hair?”
Dorian: “It fell.”
Me: “What fell? Your head? Into the bowl of food?”
Dorian: “Um, yeah.”
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Dante had a series of nosebleeds the other day. After one particularly bloody episode, for which, I should mention, I was not even in the room for . . .
Dorian: “Papa! Mama made Dante bleed!”
Irving: “How did she do that?”
Dorian: “First, she hit him in the face, like this!” Demonstrates slapping back and forth many times.
“Then she threw him up on the wall!” Mimes choking and hurling someone against the wall. Um . . . should I be worried?
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Oh my goodness! That is too funny and yes, kind of scary. In the US, that could get you into the crosshairs of Children Protective Services! Of course, they know kids have a wild imagination, but still, they’d probably investigate …
I know, that’s what I was thinking! Time to start limiting certain movies, methinks.
With kids, who needs TV?
What kills me is the passive voice kids naturally use. Like Dorian’s answer to the oatmeal. “It fell”… I get that so often! “It fell” “It broke” “It bounced off the table”… Really? How? Was there a ghost in the house, did this inanimate object grow legs and run off the edge, what?!!? Just tell me and tell the truth! Geez! I’m trying to get them to understand that I am ok with accidents, they happen. They know I am! I break more stuff than the kids do! I tell them that I need to know what happened, the sooner the better, you know, before lost pieces are vacuumed up and lost forever, etc. Yet, this ‘non-blame’ comes naturally. It did it. Yea. All by itself. ;D
Hilarious! Next thing he knew, Mama grew horns and a ninja-turtle-dress. Your boy is clearly into action-stuff. Funny…