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
4yo upset because he was thirsty and wanted a drink of water on the way to pre-school, and said he wouldn't drink any water at pre-school because it doesn't taste very nice. We wouldn't let him go all the way home for a drink so he started to cry... "Well crying won't help you!""Yes it will because I can drink my tears!"
we asked for that one, really
― kinder, Monday, 1 April 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
"Mom, can I have your phone when you die?"
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 08:21 (five years ago) link
💀
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
daughter Opal (turned 2 a month ago) is finally old enough for me to take part in this.
My wife always calls her "Peanut" and often if you refer to her as something else, she says "no, I'm a Peanut"
And when we put her to bed I always say "see you later, alligator" hoping eventually she'll say "in a while crocodile" because she did that once.
Tonight we left the room with the last thing being my saying that. After the door closed we heard her say:
"I'm not an alligator. Daddy always says alligator. I'm a peanut. I'm a peanut.....(pause)....honey roasted peanut"
― dan selzer, Thursday, 4 April 2019 00:06 (five years ago) link