had a very confusing discussion about smoking and death with the 4-year-old yesterday in which she told me that when you die your body turns hard and then people give your bones to dogs
― na (NA), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
son's 4th birthday. the day before, he was being a huge brat so we were talking about what happens if birthdays are cancelled: presents go back to the shop, no cake and you stay 3 forever.him: so... that means I won't ever die.Somehow he always manages to win the argument!
― kinder, Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
lol that is outstanding
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
flawless victory
― crispy fun in a bun (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
overplayed your hand, tbh
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
yeah I know! He's frighteningly good at assimilating new information with stuff he learned ages ago and drawing logical conclusions. Then asking relevant questions.
― kinder, Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
We're reading the Hobbit. We're a bit more than halfway through, at the spiders in Mirkwood.
My 7 year old daughter asks "Why are there no girls in this book?"
― fajita seas, Monday, 3 December 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
damnalso otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2018 05:25 (five years ago) link
he always manages to win the argument!
You could have come back with: "No. Even three-year olds can die!" (accompanied by a meaningful look). To which he might retort, you said "you stay 3 forever. Those who live forever do not die. QED, my dear parent." Your rejoinder: "Those who die do not age, my dear child. Once having attained age three, a dead child cannot be remain two, nor yet become four. Hence they remain three forever. Case closed."
After which your child grows up to be a celebrated lawyer.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 December 2018 05:54 (five years ago) link
frighteningly good at assimilating new information with stuff he learned ages ago and drawing logical conclusions
this is so fun to see, like he's spent time a learning system and now understands it enough to test or exploit it. Last night he was hyper and didn't want to take of his clothes to get his pajamas on; usually we do this by commanding a super hero named 'naked boy' to appear. He wouldn't so I made some dumb joke about transforming into a nakedasaurus and he looked at me deadpan and said "those have been extinct for a really long time".
― joygoat, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
haha.
― kinder, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
"How much is that doggy in the window?You've got your own sense of right and wrong!"
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 9 December 2018 11:31 (five years ago) link
"what are you thinking about?""nothing""oh come on""fortnite""okay""and before that, football""okay""and before that, spiderman"what a unique flower
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 January 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
lol
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 6 January 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
Ben gave us a permission slip for a field trip to see a play entitled “Nightmare on Puberty Street.” Which we signed. Cut to twenty minutes later and Owen: What is this on my face? Is it acne?Ben: Nightmare on puberty street!
― DJI, Thursday, 10 January 2019 05:48 (five years ago) link
Author, author!
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 10 January 2019 05:52 (five years ago) link
omg that sounds like it should be a Legz Akimbo production
― kinder, Thursday, 10 January 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
4yo, out of nowhere: there are dimensions we don't know aboutus, open-mouthed at our genius/otherwise gifted child: um... What dimensions do you mean?4yo: no, there are some engines* we don't know about. What are dimensions? Are they fun?*new characters from Thomas the Tank Engine that he'd just watched on tv
― kinder, Monday, 14 January 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
massive lols at that!
― visiting, Monday, 14 January 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
haha that’s great
― estela, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:33 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:45 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/2r6v55.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
:D
― kinder, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/2r8j6j.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:25 (five years ago) link
That is my favorite thing in ever
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
so great
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
my latest favorite grand-daughter thing is when she asks for "a glass of water, filled TO THE BRIM"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
“Do ghosts have wallets?”
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 27 January 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
🧐
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 January 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
my son just called me a "scallywag"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 January 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
I cosign your son imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link
call him a nincompoop
― kinder, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
All these are such cute remarks. Here it's watching Sex Education. Me (during scene in which two teens watch gay porn):"So you know what rimming is?"My 13 yo:"Yes."I'm like Gillian Anderson's character. Lol. Or Eurotrash. Basically, yeah, I educate my kids. 😂
― nathom, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
You're a hero.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
It's been snowing; yesterday the snow was pretty heavy all over our garden covering everything. Today a lot has melted, so the patio, garden path etc are visible again.
My 4yo, upon seeing the thawed garden path: "ahh, Pathy! you're back!"
― kinder, Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
aww
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
He’s been obsessed with spelling and numbers lately- wanting to count to a hundred, asking for the sum of two numbers vs the name of two numbers next to each other, etc. Tonight he told me there is a number called ‘dash’, and I asked where he heard about it and he said “from the scientist I met before I was born”. This is like the third time he’s casually mentioned this scientist.
― joygoat, Monday, 4 February 2019 03:56 (five years ago) link
D:
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 4 February 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
Xxxpost hero? Naaaah. Haha. We've always been no holds barred w most things. Well, me mostly. Same w language: no baby talk. Just no.
― nathom, Monday, 4 February 2019 07:12 (five years ago) link
We were talking yesterday and suddenly realized: in about four/five years she's off to university. Gone. On her own. Wtf.
― nathom, Monday, 4 February 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
4yo talking about his testicles again: "These are useless, aren't they daddy? I think they're what Topsy had removed" (Little girl character on kids' tv show who had her appendix out in the show)
― kinder, Sunday, 17 February 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
O_O
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 February 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
I think he thought they were the same as an appendix (?!) which in the show they explain doesn't do anything...
― kinder, Sunday, 17 February 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
Wah!
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 17 February 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
6yo daughter hammering on our hastily locked bedroom door, bellowing, "But there's no REASON for you to be NAKED! It doesn't make any SENSE!"
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 21 March 2019 11:33 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 March 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
yikes
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Friday, 22 March 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
So funny
― DJI, Friday, 22 March 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
"i have an object in my left nostril" - the four-and-a-half year old to the ER doc after shoving part of a juice box straw wrapper up his nose during nap time at preschool
"luigi? he's a butt scientist" - shit talking mom while they were "playing" OG super mario brothers
― joygoat, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
Both classic! That's exactly how I'd break that info to a doctor, to be honest.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link