Cute kid stories

[Melalvai]

We have a "pets" thread, "Dear so-and-so", and some others. How about a thread for stories about our kids?

My daughter and her boyfriend text each other constantly. Our family ate at a restaurant a couple nights ago and she put her cell phone away. "It's ok," her dad & I said, "you can text him."
She replied, "I think it's rude to text when you are at a restaurant with other people."

I love telling that story mainly because I get to say "my daughter and her boyfriend". She's 17 and this is her first ever boyfriend. Only I can't tell it too much because she's pretty prickly about me mentioning her boyfriend.

[roo4]

Good for her!

[PamNY]

She has good manners! That's great.

[AppleTree]

What a cute thread, I love kid stories!

Last year I was with my three year old granddaughter, and she was (and still is actually) on a "why" kick... why, why, why? All the time, her mom says it can be very annoying after a while. LOL. Anyway, I told her finally that she was a little Miss Super Why (a cartoon character on PBS) and she said of course, "why am I a little Miss Super Why?" and I said "because you ask WHY all the time!". And then after a pause she said "Why do I ask why all the time??"...

Still cracks me up to think about it.

[malkin]

A kid at work said I was a mermaid.

I was administering a standardized test of vocabulary, which consists of single word picture naming. His speech is quite poor and his language is telegraphic--a pretty good strategy for him, since he's hardly using any consonants at all and it simplifies things enough to occasionally get his point across. So imagine his part of the following conversation delivered by a charming 5 year old using no consonants (unless you count glottal stop as a consonant).

Me: What's this?
Him: Mermaid.
Him: Me not mermaid.
pause
Him: (pointing) You mermaid.
both laugh
Me: Nah! I have legs!
Him: (Extends both legs in the air) Me legs too.

[Crankin]

I generally hate kid stories (maybe too many years living in a "my kid is better than yours" environment), but I had a funny one this week. I am in the process of "terminating" with an 11 y/o boy with PDD. We were looking at a calendar, so he could have a visual of when our last session would be. My colleague, who is a BA level parent educator and is just becoming an English speaker (she's pretty good) was there, too. So, the kid looks at the calendar and says, "When is your birthday?" I tell the date and then he says "How old are you going to be?" My colleague and I start laughing hysterically and tell him, "Don't ever ask an older woman her age. It's considered rude." He laughed, said OK, and then said, "Like in your fifties?" I told him it was such a big number, he would faint, but that he was close.

[lionphone]

uppppppppppppppp

[hebe]

What a great thread!

Last week my 5 year old told me that she remembered when Jesus was born. "oh!" I said, "when was Jesus born?" She confidently replied "In the year of the donkey". My reverend father has been enjoying retelling that one.

[azfiddle]

When my son was about 2 years old he said "Mom, you wan' hear my poem?" "Of course", I told him so he said: "I walk, I talk". A few weeks later... "Mom, you wan' hear my new poem?" "Sure, Simon"! He then said: "I walk, I boing". Like, a bouncing ball.

I never thought about that during the 12 years he spent doing Irish step dancing. hmmm...