Funny moments with my child
Monday, 26 January 2009 21:26
I thought I would kick off the New Year and share some of the funnier moments of having a little boy who reads fluently but still thinks asynchronously like a 3 year old.
One of my earliest memories is being in Woolworths and shopping with Sam. Sam was sitting in the trolley and I went to walk across the aisle to pick up some food and he screeched, with great distress, for all the supermarket to hear Mummy, PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE ME UN-AT-TEN-DED!!
Sam had read the trolley sign that you should not leave your child unattended . I wasn't sure whether to hide with embarrassment as all the other shoppers looked at me, or to burst out laughing . He could read!
When we travel by car I play games with Sam and one of these is to count how many bridges we drive over or under. Sam is always enthusiastic and nods, Yes, yes, let's count how many Australian government bridges we go over! Look, here's another government bridge!
It used to intrigue me that Sam never used the word "bridge" without the adjective government in front of it. But I have learnt that Sam sometimes has oddities that are perfectly natural and that we don't always understand.
Then this holiday, Sam's dad pointed it out to me.. as you drive interstate along the highways and freeways, there are signs that say something like "This bridge is funded by the NSW government and federal government". When Sam first started reading, we must have been driving somewhere along the Pacific Highway, and thanks to John Howard/Kevin Rudd's advertising, out little 3 year old now knows to thank the government for every bridge.
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