After brunch today, Katherine and I were up at the counter paying, when Katherine pointed at the price label (25 cents) and asked, “What does that say?”
She recognizes that all that scribbling around her means something. And that she can ask and get explanations for it (as inexplicable as that may seem). It’s one thing to recognize that there’s writing in books that relates to the story being said, it’s quite another to start picking it out of the environment around her.
Well, it seems like a big deal to me.
Later on today, Kitten and I were driving around (shopping for speaker mounts, if you must know).
“He needs a helmet! Daddy, he needs a helmet!”
She was pointing at a motorcyclist beside us who was auditioning to be an organ donor. Glad to know all that nattering about her having to wear her helmet whilst triking is paying off.
“Yeah, he’s really stupid,” I agreed with her, just to drive home the lesson.
“Yeah.”
“What do you think would happen if he fell off his motorcycle?”
“That would be really bad.”
Yeah, well, it seemed like a good conversation to me.
As a parent of two I can honestly say…Ot just gets better and niftier every time they learn a new thing. No matter how trivial it may seem to the non-parenting community, something as little as my daughter looking at the screen of my computer and counting the Justice League characters and reporting back that there are five of them rocks my world. My son, on his own, picked up Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and read a bit of it. Good stuff.
Exactly.
Once upon a time, people could only bore their co-workers, family and friends with this sort of stuff. Through the marvels of the Internet, though, today we can bore the entire world!
That’s progress, I tell you.