I’m not entirely sure how we got around to the subject, but Mum and I were talking about midgets the other night, as you do. (Is the term midget acceptable? I apologise if not). I work with a woman who is a person of small stature and I was telling Mum that Leona’s* young children are ‘normal sized children’ and taller than she is. Again, not sure how it came up, but chats with my Mum tend to cover most things.
So, on Saturday Cappers had a ‘morning tea’ date at her friend Sam’s to make cupcakes. Which left Maxi and The Badoo alone for the first time in… well, probably forever. I said to Max, “what do you think you’ll do all day without Cappers?” and he said, “I’m going to play with The Badoo for the whole entire day. She’s all mine.”
Fabbo, I thought.
I stopped in to see how they were going a little bit into their morning. “What are you playing?” I asked.
“Mums and Dads. The Badoo is the Mum and I’m her son.”
“Sounds great, but The Badoo is a really small mother.” (You can see where this is going.)
“Yes,” he said, quick as you like. “She’s a dwarf and I’m her normal-sized child.”
Ah, I see. I don’t even know where he got the term ‘dwarf’ from, but it was probably from the kind of dreadful person who uses the term midget.
What conversations have your children eavesdropped on lately? Incidentally, don’t feel bad about sharing. I still can’t get The Badoo to stop saying ‘For Fox Sake’ every now and then and now Maxi has introduced dwarfism into his role playing. Must be more careful!
* Hi Leona!
Kellie says
Ive busted my 3yo telling her brother off a few times lately:
“I dont like the way you’re behaving, it makes Sienna mad. One more time and you go to your room!”
“You’re meant to be asleep, why aren’t you asleep? Seriously kid you drive me mental!”
He’s 9 months old. He doesnt know what the hell she is on about!
ClaireyH says
Miss 2 has been running around screaming “I am going to kill you” over and over again.
I was horrified!
A Farmer's Wife says
Farmboy was playing Xbox on the weekend and the vocab accompanying it was disturbing to say the least…
Diminishing Lucy says
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Diminishing Lucy says
I need a whole blog. Not just a post, or a comment box. A whole entire blog.
“Stop look listen & watch out for the bloody idiots…”
I love that snap of the two of them. Lovely.
LionessLady says
Not a conversation I overheard – rather a sight witnessed: the 2 year old using baby wipes on her 4 year old brother after he’s used the loo!
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Alice Becomes says
they don’t let us get away with anything, do they?!
Hmm, i have to be really careful at the moment. M1 is a real little parrot lately and it has made me realise that I swear a whole lot more than I ever thought I did
I love “For Fox Sake” by the way! And that gorgeous picture
Gill xo
Miss Mandy says
Oh we’ve had numerous conversations about ‘the black people’ – my daughters reference. Her first discovery was when I went to hospital for a antinatal check up. From then on she referred to ‘black people’ like they were one family, that lived in one house, e.g. “mum how come Phoebe is on holidays….. what about the black people are they on holidays?” It’s taken many conversations to break down that one down!
Flaming Nora says
Last night at dinner the hippie rubbed his eye, only to realise he had been cutting chillies. He said “Oh Crappity arse holes” a little too loudly.
Unfortunately we all laughed the first time the 3 yr old said it. You know the rest….
Bungalowgirl says
Thi post made me laugh until I was crying and snorting simultaneously.
Have you ever seen the email called Porn for women? It involves lots of images of gorgeous men doing housework, changing nappies etc. Well I was describing it to hubby and thought I had better spell the porn bit so it didn’t get repeated. Well Mr 4 then decided to practice his spelling- P O R N over and over all the way to kindy. By the way we love for fox sake! Cracker.
Jennie Prince says
My girlfriend’s three year old daughter use to carry her baby doll everywhere. When it was time to “feed” her doll she would lift her shirt and act like she was breast feeding after seeing mommy feed her baby sister that way for months. Silly little kids. =)
Tammi says
With my recent addiction to crochet..our 8yo son recently called me a hooker, if only he knew what that implies in some circles 🙂 It’s kind of funny really and just as well I am homeschooling him cause I can well imagine the faces if he was to tell his teachers and friends mums that his mum is a hooker…priceless!!
x
Frog, Goose and Bear says
Some of those comments are hilarious!!
“Fox sake” – reminds me of a joke my uncle once told me about the queen turning up to the Wagga races many years ago wearing a hat made of fox fur. When asked about the hat, she replied that Charles had told her to wear it. He had asked her where she was going, when she answered “Wagga”, he said “Wagga? Wear the Fox Hat!”
Glen says
Oh all the time – all the time.
Mine yelled out “Big hairy knackers” the other day when he hurt his thumb.
My wife shot me the harshest glance imaginable.
I really didn’t think I said it in front of them…
Lou says
My ex husband used to swear like a trouper using the f word most of the time (he’s an asshole – thats why we aren’t marreid any more…lol)…Anyway on one occassion I said to my husband can you please stop saying F*** and spelt it out, so I wouldn’t be guilty of saying it…Eldest son who was maybe 3 at the time picked up on the spelling, but cos hat 3 he didn’t spell well, he used to shout ” Mummy – daddy said the S-P-U-K word again”… He will be 13 in a week and a half and even now when he hears somewhere use that partiular word he still calls it the S-P-U-K word!!!
Metropolitan Mum says
Little L said ‘scheisse’ the other day. Seriously, I wanted to die on the spot. She’s only two!!
Quill and Ink Handmade says
I recently had a conversation with my hubby about imagination in kids, and about how we were both afraid of monsters as wee children. My eldest, at nearly three, was listening in – I didn’t realise until much later. He very suddenly became quite nervous of going into the dark of his bedroom at night, and started taking ages to go to sleep.
When he started complaining about monsters and lions in his room, my Mum told him to tell those things to get out of his room in a big strong voice. My little man took it to heart; I’ve heard him a few times yelling out ‘Don’t you bite my leg, you naughty lion! You get out of my room – I’m not scared of you! This is MY house! Get OUT!’
He’s so much braver than we ever were!
Great post, as always 🙂
X
Wendy says
How about Shani singing the ” I love my bum,” song? I wish I was kidding…her original lyrics and ever changing tune.
Heather says
Stop it!! That is hilarious. Ella and jake pretend they are dogs. Last summer she spent a trip to the beach pretending she was a dog, ran on all fours for about 4 hours. Talk about strong…rather embarressing though. Ella is constantly overhearing and repeating what we say…we have to be so careful now! x
_vTg_ says
2yo told me “bug off means stop”. He is at Childcare with the carer that 2 years ago now-4yo picked up “oh my gawd” from so I interrogated 2yo. Fortunately for said carer he pointed the finger at a bigger kid!
Kymmie says
Such a gorgeous photo. I love the love. And that’s a great story! Yes, we must watch everything. When Madison was 2 he started saying “Bloody ‘ell”. Even with a british accent. Gosh, I’ve got to be a lot better with my swearing!
x
Silver Threads of Happiness says
You always have such fantastic posts! Great story, and I loved the comments too. Not being a mum yet I don’t have any of my own but I have often had parents at school tell me their child plays Teachers at home and they are me and the little brother or sister is ‘that child’ and is telling them off saying what I would say in class. Embarrassing!
Andrea says
How coincidental you should bring this up. Having just been advised that a ‘little person’ will be starting work experience with us next week – I now know that ‘little person’ is supposedly the preferred term. Personally I think small stature sounds nicer, but what would I know.
I call children little people…so it could get quite confusing.
The guys at work spent the whole day adjusting the furniture for her, dropping the desk etc. It has been a good lesson as to how structured our world is to people who are generic, and not to anyone with any difference. Customer service counters are usually chest height on me and I’m 5’7, the island bench in our office is also going to be higher than she is, the kitchen sink, the water cooler…the list goes on.
As for your kids -who cares about the language, how lovely that those games are actually modelling that their is some difference in the world. It means they are learning about it, and surely that is a good thing.
Jane@flightplatformliving says
thats a lovely post. made me laugh that the kiddies evesdropped! pops calls the dog, ‘bloody dog’ i dont think she even realises the dog is called maisy! xx