In Mother Words

contributed by Sara
My daughter was watching Schoolhouse Rock today, one of the episodes about being President, and she announced that she wanted to be President one day.
“That’s a good goal. You’ll have to work really hard then,” I warned her. This pretty much took care of her interest.
“I changed my mind,” she said. “If I [...]

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contributed by Sam
My 5 year old was sitting on the floor with a book. I complemented him on his reading.
“I’m not reading!” he insisted. “I’m figuring out the words!”
Ya gotta love definitions.

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Like many kids, my daughter learns bits of Spanish from shows like Dora the Explorer. She doesn’t use it very much but she does ask a lot of questions.
I think my favorite was “Does up mean down in Spanish?”

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I love watching my daughter see all the toy commercials. She wants it all, so we told her she needed to tell us what her favorites were.
You probably know what happened already.
Everything is her favorite. From Megazords to Bratz to toys much out of her age range. Maybe we just need to invest in Toys [...]

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We were driving to visit relatives, and the sky was fairly smoggy. My 2 year old son looked at the sun, and said ‘MOON!’ which my daughter immediately corrected: ‘It’s the SUN!’
This debate went on for several minutes. By the end of it I had my son calling his sister ‘Kate’ (not her name or [...]

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We went to visit some family for a pre-holiday season dinner. Many of the cousins are of similar ages, and so had quite a bit of fun together. Some were able to stay the entire weekend, but most had to go.
My daughter and her cousins really had a blast together, and as always hated to [...]

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