16 thoughts on “Reasons to Have A Kindergartener in the Family, #1

  1. I got an interesting reminder today in how acutely young people (2nd graders, in this case) sense things that do not belong. A mystery bike turned up in the playground and they were just, I don’t know, incensed that there was something in the playground that did not belong there.

    Something tells me the necessity that things go where they belong and not be where they do not belong does not extend to their bedroom organization. But man, that there was a bike where a bike was not supposed to be just shook their world.

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    1. But that’s their playground.  If there’s a bike there that nobody put there, it means someone else was playing on their playground.

      You should take this opportunity to explain how nobody really “owns” anything, and that the essence of creativity is letting other people play in your space because working together means that we all win, and how all property is really a kind of government-granted monopoly.Report

  2. The other day one of my four-year-olds told me that her scissors weren’t “scissory enough” because they weren’t cutting properly. I love my job.Report

  3. Some recent quotes from my two-year-old daughter:

    (1) “Daddy, your tummy is so cute. Big and cute.”

    (2) My daugher: “Mommy, I’m soooo hungry.”

    My wife (while handing my daugher an animal cracker): “Here you go, Penny. Look! Here’s a koala.”

    My daughter: “No! Penny don’t want a koala! Penny want ALL ANIMALS!”Report

  4. When my daughter was about three, and listing all the toys that would make her life complete, I told her that in life you can’t have everything you want, and was met with the unanswerable  “But I want everything I want.”Report

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