Collateral benefits of reading to your child :)
When children have been given a good dose of literature, the cute things they say are just different from other kids. I thought some of you literary-minded friends would enjoy some of these recent Lucy-isms:
When I turned on the twinkly Christmas lights for her: "Oh, Mother, you are too kind."
When her two-year-old sister found her lost pencil: "Oh, Zoe, you are so clever. I think we should give a party in your honor every-each day." (She uses "oh" as much as a middle-schooler uses "like.")
After some deep thought and playing with her fairy doll, "You know, Mama, I think fairies are real but we just haven't seen them yet. You don't know everything God made. I think one day he decided to make fairies for he had got tired of making people." (Yes, she really does use "for" as in "because" like that.)
I thought she had a fairly good point on that last one. Who are we to say what God has created? A thousand years ago, what a great many things people had never dreamed of that we take for granted today.
When I turned on the twinkly Christmas lights for her: "Oh, Mother, you are too kind."
When her two-year-old sister found her lost pencil: "Oh, Zoe, you are so clever. I think we should give a party in your honor every-each day." (She uses "oh" as much as a middle-schooler uses "like.")
After some deep thought and playing with her fairy doll, "You know, Mama, I think fairies are real but we just haven't seen them yet. You don't know everything God made. I think one day he decided to make fairies for he had got tired of making people." (Yes, she really does use "for" as in "because" like that.)
I thought she had a fairly good point on that last one. Who are we to say what God has created? A thousand years ago, what a great many things people had never dreamed of that we take for granted today.
Oh, this post made me smile so, for my day has been a little trying. Love it!
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How precious! Keep giving them their daily doses of literature, Mama!
ReplyDeleteSo cute. I still come across little bits of paper sometimes (on the rare occasion when I tackle cleaning my desk) where I jotted down the cute things my little ones said. It's precious now, and even more so to look back on when they are all grown.
ReplyDeleteI have a big smile on my face reading the Lucy-isms.
ReplyDeleteMy children too, spoke bookishly when they were little (and they still do -- my son gets teased on a regular basis because he uses very precise big words. I still remember how funny it was to hear "exasperating" and "cholesterol" used almost correctly in the mouth of a 3-yr-old.
What a delightful post! I love the Lucy-isms, and the comparison between current culture and the timelessness of good literature. Cheers to reading with kids!
ReplyDeleteWhat great insight into children and language, Faith. Lucy's mother tongue is indeed a literary tongue...thanks to you and Mark. And regarding fairies: there are many things known to children that adults have yet to understand! Give Lucy a kiss from Nana!
ReplyDeleteHaha! She sounds just like Miriam and Belle (I hope they can play soon!). :)
ReplyDeleteI love "Who are we to say what God has created?" I can hear her voice, even though I mourn that when we try to recreate children's real voices, editors or readers usually object that kids don't really talk that way.
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