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I was "reading" a book to my two-year-old son, and I called one of those animals skunk. My son started screaming Mama Mama and when wife came, she told me that's a raccoon, or at least that's how she called the beast when she read the same book at afternoon nap-time.
So yeah, I got fired. my son said "Go Daddy, Mommy read book"
I guess from now on I have to read the books with my wife to make sure we name the things the same way.
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It's only the beginning. In a few years it'll be "Daddy, could you drop me a couple of blocks from school so that you won't embarrass me in front of my friends".
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Sometimes when I doesn't get a story straight my 8 year old cousin corrects me then rolls her eyes. Still, she 'allows' me to continue reading her bed time stories.
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[quote davester]It's only the beginning. In a few years it'll be "Daddy, could you drop me a couple of blocks from school so that you won't embarrass me in front of my friends".
Funny, they don't want to walk a few block any where but in that instance they volunteer
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i was doing a favor for a friend and taking her 3 year old for the day. as we were driving somewhere i pointed to a building site and said "oh, Lucy, look at the crane!" she glanced out the window and then looked at me like i was crazy. "That's a backhoe, " she said matter of factually. should have known better; her mom was a construction worker.
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When I was a teenager, my father was an idiot. Somehow, the older I got the more wiser he became. Now I have kids, one a teenager, and am teetering on the verge of incompetence. But my father? Smartest man I've ever known.
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i was going to Boston with a friend and her 14 yr old daughter. We pulled into a busy service area and I said "man, this place is really hopping"
From the back seat i hear a voice—"Hopping?"
I turned around and she was giving me that teenager "you're unbelievable look.
I said "yeah, it means really busy."
That's when she started laughing.
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It's payback, isn't it? Remember the things you used to say to grown-ups?
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When that happens to me, I usually start reading the story with really silly substitutions until it exasperates my kid.
