For her 6th birthday, my dad sent my daughter a birthday card with dollar bills inside. Being a kid, she just tore the envelope open, and dollar bills went flying everywhere.
Now, she wasn’t all that impressed by the fact that she got money. No, she was impressed by who was on the dollar bills.
“How’d Papa know that’s my favorite president??” she squealed. She was completely and utterly delighted that her grandfather had sent her something with pictures of George Washington. That mattered more than anything else.
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One of my favorite stories from when I was pregnant happened at the Renaissance Faire. I’d dressed up as best I could with a bulging 37 week pregnant tummy, and people loved asking me how far along I was.
The answer, however made them nervous.
Just about every time I said “37 weeks” the person’s eyes would get huge and they’d take a quick step back, as though they expected me to give birth on their shoes or something. This reaction happened all over the place there.
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My son has been resisting potty training for a long time. But last week he finally decided to start it in earnest. It all started as I changed his diaper before putting him down for a nap. He’d been playing Superman all day, blankie cape flowing behind him. He started to throw a tantrum as I tried to remove his diaper.
“Superman no wear diaper! Superman wear underpants!” he insisted.
As any other sensible mother would do, I took him up on that premise and informed him that in that case he would have to go use the potty. “Superman never wets his underpants,” I told him.
He was immediately agreeable and proceeded to use the potty. I’m probably lucky he didn’t demand Superman underpants. The Thomas the Tank Engine ones we had were perfectly acceptable.
It’s been just about a week now, with relatively few accidents involving pee. Poop… *sigh*… that’s another story. But today he promised me that he’d start pooping on the potty “very soon.” He even gave me two thumbs up with that statement.
And that cape has been on every day so far.
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We are not royalty and we are not schizophrenic… what’s schizophrenic? – Ariel, age 5
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I was walking my daughter to school the other day, and she suddenly announced that she was going to start a church when she grew up. I was of course curious why.
“So that people have to give me money on Sunday,” she said, very seriously.
It didn’t take much discussion to find out that she figured she’d found a way to get rich. I gently explained to her that that’s not a great reason to start a church.
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