Saturday, March 29, 2008
When dinosaurs roamed the earth
We spent the morning in the kitchen, the boys serving as test marketers for my new business/folly. They were decorating dinosaur shapes, and Boo had just glued a speckled egg (aka a dried bean) in the anatomically correct location on an ankylosaurus.
"See, it's a mommy ankylosaurus," Boo explained casually.
Something about that, or perhaps something completely unrelated (and I sincerely hope so), got Max thinking. "Mommy, what did you learn back in the old days when you were in school?"
Hmmm, let me see if I can remember back that far. Ah, yes, the fog is lifting a bit, just over a herd of dinosaurs, and I do have a few, dim memories of childhood.
"Well, honey, I learned a lot of the same things you're learning about now, like reading and math and science, sort of."
"But you didn't learn words like 'oviparous', did you?"
Sheesh. No, oviparous was not on our kindergarten word list. Even today, it would have gotten me tossed from a spelling bee.
Having children is humbling.
In oh-so-many ways.
"See, it's a mommy ankylosaurus," Boo explained casually.
Something about that, or perhaps something completely unrelated (and I sincerely hope so), got Max thinking. "Mommy, what did you learn back in the old days when you were in school?"
Hmmm, let me see if I can remember back that far. Ah, yes, the fog is lifting a bit, just over a herd of dinosaurs, and I do have a few, dim memories of childhood.
"Well, honey, I learned a lot of the same things you're learning about now, like reading and math and science, sort of."
"But you didn't learn words like 'oviparous', did you?"
Sheesh. No, oviparous was not on our kindergarten word list. Even today, it would have gotten me tossed from a spelling bee.
Having children is humbling.
In oh-so-many ways.
1 Comments:
Oviparous? That's a pretty racy word for a small child. We'd never have been taught something so risque.
Yeah, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. ;-)
Next thing you know they'll be teaching him about sessile benthonic organisms.
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