Perfectly Sensible Child Utterances

[Legs]

Daniel (just turned 6) is experimenting with forming irregular past participles.  Last night we had "I kack the ball at him", which made us chuckle.

[Wowbagger]

The eldest has had a lot of changes starting big school and starting to get hormonal

Very much a mummy's girl at the moment.

Yesterday we were wandering up the road to check on our friends dogs. I had keys in my hand for their house and she stuck her hand towards me. I handed her the keys thinking she wanted to go ahead.

No daddy I wanted to hold your hand.

I think there was a look of slight surprise on my face as she then said

Daddy I do love you, you just get me at all my bad times. You know getting me up, bedtime and homework.

Shes not wrong

Make the most of that.

[Cudzoziemiec]

We don't have a thread for "Random happy interactions with unknown kids" so this is here: I was on a train the other day. We pulled out of the station at exactly the same time as another train on a neighbouring platform (there are 15 platforms and a series of junctions and switches immediately outside the station). The two trains were side by side, then as they both switched tracks, the one I was on started to pull ahead of the other one. As the carriage windows passed by, there sitting at one was a little boy with his mother, both waving at my train. Boy had a big smile, mum a small one. So I waved back. Boy's grin threatened to crack the window! Then they disappeared as my train pulled ahead, before they overtook again and the process repeated. I imagine he carried on waving all the way to Cardiff.

[Ham]

Little grandson-ham (he with the space mural) aged 4 has (what appears to be) an unusually empathetic streak in him.

The other day Mrs Ham and Miss Ham collected him from school (a 200 ish metre walk from their home. Mrs Ham had forgotten her stick which she really needs  these days, and is slow without so Mas.Ham &Miss Ham were in front. "Where's Nanny's stick?" "She forgot it" "Oh, I'll go back and hold her hand so she doesn't fall over"

He is also likely to come out with things like "I like your top/trousers/whatever" or to his little sister "you look pretty in that dress"

Long may it continue. It makes up in part for the (epic) tantrums.

[Kim]

"Mummy, am I being patient?"

*pointed silence*

[fd3]

#2 son (, “I’m a socialist”
(Currently reading the usbourne guide to politics’

[The Family Cyclist]

To reduce grief i get waking girls up for school we got them alarm clocks. They wanted to get the 5 minutes snooze so I set time of alarm 5 minutes earlier so they can snooze and still get up in time to get ready

This morning went in to chivvy along the youngest. She whacked me on the top of head and said snooze before laying back down

[Cudzoziemiec]

That's one of the funniest things I've read all week. 

[fimm]

I'm cycling along, and a woman and two small children are walking along the pavement in the opposite direction. One small child said something that might have been "Hello!", so I said "Hello!" back.
"That's a girl," said the child.
"Yes," said the woman
I laughed.

(A tiny bit of me would like to inform the small person that I am likely to be old enough to be their grandmother, and therefore don't really qualify as a "girl" any more...)

[Kim]

It's less charming when it's some early-20s oik exclaiming "Oh, it's a bird!"

[Cudzoziemiec]

That there Emily Chappell mentioned on one of her blogs an incident in the Alaskan winter. She stopped to chat with a sleddist and after a minute or so of conversation, she removed her ski mask, which she was wearing on account of cycling through the aforementioned Alaskan winter, at which point the sleddist exclaimed "Oh my God, you're a woman!" She also  laughed.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I've just found on a memory stick a movie made by my son when he was six and a half (that's almost thirteen years ago!), using the video function on a camera we might still have lying around somewhere, in which he drives a jeep to "the south-east North Pole". Children are the best explorers, able to find places adults dismiss.

[Ham]

Grandson-ham (now 5): "Riding our bikes is a really nice way to get to school"

 

(He also rides the 5 miles to rugby training and back)

[Ham]

And the latest:

"The sun is shining, it's warm, it smells lovely [we're riding to school by the side of the Wanstead Flats], we're on our bikes...... does it get any better than this?"

[Jurek]

Sounds like he has it sorted. 

[The Family Cyclist]

Not an utterance but an action

Youngest got told reading books need to be handed back before holidays. This meant reading 130 pages after school yesterday

She then snuck the next book she wanted out of school library to read over summer

[Basil]

Well done her.
However, I'm intrigued about the term 'Reading book'.

[Kim]

I assume a book specifically written to develop reading skills, perhaps as part of a progressively-advancing series.  In my day the infrequently used term was 'reader', which struck perfectly-sensible-child-me as silly, as surely that's the opposite of 'book'.

I have memories of being required to read all the whatever-colour books before being allowed to progress to the next level, where the content appeared much less dull.

[The Family Cyclist]

Just a book to read rather then what I'd have called a text book or a reference book

[Cudzoziemiec]

Also as opposed to a book for writing in, which was called an exercise book when I was at primary school. I'm not sure what it's called now.

[The Family Cyclist]

Also as opposed to a book for writing in, which was called an exercise book when I was at primary school. I'm not sure what it's called now.

Pretty much the same, they still have topic books

[barakta]

Reading book(s) were the ones you had to read for the school and get signed off by parents. As distinct from the other 6 or so books I read cos I wanted to for each reading book.

I am STILL pissed off that due to deafness speech issues (pronunciation) I was bounced back a reading level age 7osh cos I couldn't pronounce moustache even though I knew full well what it was. My 'assessor' teacher didn't check I understood what it was. My reading always did (and still does) outpace my pronunciation and this is a known deaf child issue!

So I had to read all of one colour books all over again or at least for long enough to be allowed to progress. I wasn't clever enough to take 1 home and ignore and read away and bring it back to swap. So I just reread them AND all the other books I read.

I still hate being read aloud to or reading aloud myself, the latter being a great way to make my speech sound deaf as heck in under a minute or two.

[hellymedic]

Mum HATED us reading aloud and sub-vocalising so we were expected to read silently as smalls.
I’m sure we read greater volumes as a result.

[barakta]

I don't think I subvocalise which I think is partly why my natural reading speed is fast.

[hellymedic]

Subvocalising strikes me as a habit ‘talkie readers’ acquire.
I don’t think barakta’s a natural talkie so subvocalising would seem to be an obstructive layer of unnecessary faff..