Milkmaids
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Super Powers
So Number 6 comes up to me while I'm sitting at my computer deeply concentrating on the vast amount of research I was doing...ok, not really...I was reading The Pioneer Woman - Ree Drummond's blog. But anyway...he comes up to me and asks: "can I have one of those kinda round things that are straight and goes like this" (making hand motions) Immediately, my mind shifts to real life and does a 6 second inventory of what is in the kitchen. I ask him "where is it?" “It’s in the big fridge” (we actually have 2 fridges…one, the big fridge, is in the kitchen and the other is the milk fridge in the storage room. The milk fridge is where we usually keep our extra 12 gallons of fresh jersey milk, hence the name milk fridge. But I digress….) So my mind does another quick 6 second inventory of what’s in the big fridge. I ask “what color is it?” His response…meat color. Bingo!! Meat sticks…the hot spicy meat sticks made from grassfed beef…”Yes, Buddy…you can have some!” What can I say? I’m a parent…deciphering strange languages is one of my superpowers! Now excuse me while I go change a diaper!!
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Deciphering child-code is a feat I well remember. And a fun one. A little boy (now an adult) used to call a pine-cone a pine-corn akin to acorn. Sometimes these children are quite clever in making up their own languages. It is one perk in being so much with children - you learn to value their own special way of communicating.
ReplyDeleteI answered your question on my blog a little while ago in some detail. No, you do not need to purchase anything else to start your class based on "Story Starters." The optional resources are within the pages of my book. I would have written soon, but today my grandchildren were here (from the next state). I hope to see them again on Thanksgiving as they come over the river and through the woods. Yours, Karen A.