My neighbor's very cute granddaughter seems to have sprung into the world of the verbal talking in complete sentences. She seemed mute when I saw her last only a few months ago, but now she has turned three and she can tell you so. She speaks clearly and enunciates her words. She has great big eyes and a mass of dark hair framing her face, which, fortunately, is no longer at the level of the dog's tail, although she agreed with me that dogs are big. She has a round tummy and was dressed in a smorgasbord of bright colors from head to toe, and obviously she has a pretty clear idea of how things should go. Yesterday she looked at us and announced, out of the blue, "Tomorrow I'm going to be a nurse. On Friday I'll be a doctor."
...An ambitious career schedule if ever I've heard one! But if anyone can do it, I believe she can.
Mike
P.S. Today, as she was leaving, she turned around in her stroller and called back to me, "Be sure to use your seatbelt if you go anywhere!" I swear. The kid is barely three and about knee-high to a knee.
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When she gets a bit older she'll be knee-high to a high knee.
Posted by: Roger Bradbury | Tuesday, 06 June 2023 at 07:39 PM
One of my granddaughters is 15. Now, as we all know, when you are 15 you know everything. Except I swear she actually does :)
Posted by: Bob Johnston | Wednesday, 07 June 2023 at 02:06 AM
Looks like under-developed leadership potential, according to one Kindy teacher. Used to be known as bossiness ;~)
My son is similar, although twice her age now. We’ll explain something to him, and then 5 mins later he is telling us the same back. Yes, there is a difference between explaining and telling.
He’s very confident in some ways, and definitely (thinks) he knows his own mind.
At least you get to enjoy those interactions due to their brevity. It starts to grate 24-7.
Posted by: Not THAT Ross Cameron | Wednesday, 07 June 2023 at 06:44 PM
Precocious (On-Topic)
About a month ago, I was debating the existence of fairies with my 5-year-old daughter. She's been really into fairies lately, and also very interested in knowing what is and is not real ("Do people think giraffes are fiction or non-fiction?").
I pulled out my copy of The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult, which has a nice section about the Cottingley fairies, and I dutifully explained the story and showed the photos. She asked a few questions for clarification, but otherwise didn't show much reaction.
One day, about a week later, she asked for her camera. She has a toy camera that makes instant prints on receipt paper. It's an objectively terrible camera, but I must admit the results have an alluring Provoke-like quality, and anyway she quite enjoys it. She disappeared into her bedroom with the camera for a while, later emerging with a fistful of hazy B&W photos of fairies, taken from the illustrations in one of her books (a book that is deliberately cagey about its veracity).
She said she needed the photos so that she could "prove that fairies are real" to a skeptical kid at school.
Posted by: AN | Thursday, 08 June 2023 at 04:09 PM