===========
The first time I noticed my younger son replace new, unfamiliar words with conceptually similar (but familiar) words, we were doing his second grade reading homework. He'd encounter a new word, and he could tell from the context what the meaning of the word should be. Without even thinking, he'd "fill in the blank" with a synonym he already knew.
Another time, still in his early elementary school years, he casually requested some new "frognecks," in some different colors, to wear under the button-down shirts (which the cool kids wore unbuttoned, of course). At the time, I thought it was just a cute slip of the tongue.
Then, one morning when he was 10, we discovered several HUGE toadstools in our back yard near our patio. I had never seen any this big, so I called to my son to come and see them. This is when I found out that the boy had somehow reached the age of 10 without hearing of the word "toadstool" before.
I don't know how he could've missed that particular noun; nevertheless, he was duly impressed with our HUGE ones.
Before mowing the yard later, for whatever reason, my husband and older son chopped down the toadstools and put them on the patio table.
Even later, "Little G," in an unusually helpful mood, went out on his own and gathered the cups etc. that were on the patio table and came in the door with his arms loaded. As earnest as he could be, he announced to me, "Mom, I got everything off of the patio table except the turtle seats. I left them there."
______________________
One of these days, maybe I'll figure out how to be a "real blogger." Until then, I hope you'll follow me on Twitter @JustAsWellLaugh for Tweets, Re-Tweets, and notification of the occasional new blog post.
No comments:
Post a Comment