March 5, 2014

  • Men and Yelling

    Cotton is becoming a reader, and it's been fun to watch. She was reading an Elephant and Piggie book recently and needed help with a word. I helped her work it out, and then she told me that, "The line with a dot there makes that word yell." Elephant and Piggie are often! excited! so! she! learned! that! quick!

    She still sometimes assigns things values and descriptions that are very much kid observations. We were having dinner with friends, and we'd sent one kid to tell the others it was time for dessert. When Cotton wandered in, we asked if the message was getting around (because kid is not a very effective communication tool all the time) and she said, "He did, but he said it like a man." Apparently men in Cotton's world talk in low rumbly voices and ,this is the fun bit, make a fist with one hand and make and old-timey 'here we go!' gestures.