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Just something I've been thinking about lately, and would like some
opinions/experiences of others.

I "How Children Learn", the revised edition where John added further
comment, and at one point, he details how he would try little tricks to
try to subtly correct children's speech (i.e. if the child said "I breaked
it", he would repeat back at them "You broke it? Oh, ..<whatever>".) His
revised comment was that he should not have done this. Well, every day my
daughter makes mistakes like this, which, when you think about it, are
quite logical (by what logical explanation is "took" is the past tense of
"take"?), but incorrect. I've been resisting the impulse to directly
correct her, but she doesn't seem to be picking up on the correct past
tense of words, even though we use them correctly. What do most of you
do?

Thanks for the input!

Kevin

Myranda

With my oldest, he picked up on the correct way to say things just by listening to other people talking. With my second son, though, I finally had to start correcting him so I, and other people, could figure out what he was saying. A typical sentence from him would be "me wanted that was gone, purple thing now, he said no, it were over there". Now how many people could translate that into "I wanted it, but it's gone, so I want the purple thing now, but Brett said no because it wasn't over there"??? LOL So my opinion would be that it depends on the child!
Myranda

Just something I've been thinking about lately, and would like some
opinions/experiences of others.

I "How Children Learn", the revised edition where John added further
comment, and at one point, he details how he would try little tricks to
try to subtly correct children's speech (i.e. if the child said "I breaked
it", he would repeat back at them "You broke it? Oh, ..<whatever>".) His
revised comment was that he should not have done this. Well, every day my
daughter makes mistakes like this, which, when you think about it, are
quite logical (by what logical explanation is "took" is the past tense of
"take"?), but incorrect. I've been resisting the impulse to directly
correct her, but she doesn't seem to be picking up on the correct past
tense of words, even though we use them correctly. What do most of you
do?

Thanks for the input!

Kevin


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marji

At 14:18 10/7/02 -0400, Myranda wrote:
>With my oldest, he picked up on the correct way to say things just by
>listening to other people talking. With my second son, though, I finally
>had to start correcting him so I, and other people, could figure out what
>he was saying. A typical sentence from him would be "me wanted that was
>gone, purple thing now, he said no, it were over there". Now how many
>people could translate that into "I wanted it, but it's gone, so I want
>the purple thing now, but Brett said no because it wasn't over there"???
>LOL So my opinion would be that it depends on the child!
>Myranda

This may have been your method for correcting your son, but I have found
one gentle way of doing this for my son without actually "correcting" him
was telling him what I heard and asking him if what I heard was what he
said. That way if I got it wrong he could correct me, and if I got it
right he could hear another way of saying what he wanted to say without me
saying he was wrong in any way.

Marji


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Myranda

Yes, that's what we did until he was 4. He just wasn't picking up on it, and was actually getting worse instead of better.
Myranda
This may have been your method for correcting your son, but I have found
one gentle way of doing this for my son without actually "correcting" him
was telling him what I heard and asking him if what I heard was what he
said. That way if I got it wrong he could correct me, and if I got it
right he could hear another way of saying what he wanted to say without me
saying he was wrong in any way.

Marji


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Mary Bianco

>From: kevin.tucker@...

<<Just something I've been thinking about lately, and would like some
opinions/experiences of others.

I "How Children Learn", the revised edition where John added further
comment, and at one point, he details how he would try little tricks to
try to subtly correct children's speech (i.e. if the child said "I breaked
it", he would repeat back at them "You broke it? Oh, ..<whatever>".) His
revised comment was that he should not have done this. Well, every day my
daughter makes mistakes like this, which, when you think about it, are quite
logical (by what logical explanation is "took" is the past tense of
"take"?), but incorrect. I've been resisting the impulse to directly
correct her, but she doesn't seem to be picking up on the correct past tense
of words, even though we use them correctly. What do most of you do?>>


With my mom being a school teacher, (ex now) I remember growing up always
being corrected in my grammer. I absolutely hated it. I guess maybe that's
why I don't do it to my kids.

I just let them go, if they ask, I answer. Something cute was when Joseph
was little, he made up a word, amn't. As in "I am not dong that." It made
sense to me that he used it and Sierra being 13 months right behind him,
picked it up too. I thought it was rather cute and it didn't really bother
me that it wasn't a real word. It was to them. Sadly, I hardly ever hear
that word anymore. (sigh)

Once in awhile, Joseph (7) or Sierra (6) will say something and look at me
after they use a word, almost knowing it doesn't sound right. That's when
I'll give them the right one. Only one I can think of right now is saying
heared instead of heard. Other than that, I let it go and as of now, see no
problem in them using words that don't always go. Once in a while one will
come up, but's what the big deal? JMO

Mary B

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In a message dated 10/7/02 1:56:31 PM, mummyone24@... writes:

<< Something cute was when Joseph
was little, he made up a word, amn't. >>

He "made it up" according to rules, and it's not his sole creation. I've
seen it in print. It's not his alone.

Kids go through a stage where the things they said before that were "right"
are replaced with things their parents consider "wrong," and then they go
back to "right."

The "wrong" stage proves that they've learned the rules and patterns. The
second right phase proves they've learned that English ignores rules and
patterns a lot, and they're learning the exceptions.

Sandra

Mary Bianco

>From: SandraDodd@...


<<He "made it up" according to rules, and it's not his sole creation. I've
seen it in print. It's not his alone.>>

Man does one have to really watch wording on this list sometimes. Okay he
made it up to us because we had never read it or heard it used before. And
was it really necessary to say what we thought was so darned cute isn't his
alone?

Mary B


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In a message dated 10/7/02 4:27:42 PM, mummyone24@... writes:

<< Man does one have to really watch wording on this list sometimes. Okay he
made it up to us because we had never read it or heard it used before. And
was it really necessary to say what we thought was so darned cute isn't his
alone? >>

It WAS cute!
He DID create it (by following rules).

But you stated it wasn't a real word, and it is a real word. (I didn't quote
the whole post.)

It's worth being careful how you say things everywhere in your whole life.
This list isn't an exception to conditions prevalent in the real world.

I figured there would be people here interested in research on children's
linguistic development. Lots of kids will say "men" and "mice" from hearing
them, and later will say "mans" and "mouses" (because they've picked up on
the patterns) and go back to men and mice in a year or two.

It's healthy and good, and cute and fun.
Things CAN be both and all that.

Sandra

Stephanie Elms

When Jason was 2, he used to add t's onto the end of words that ended in n. Moont, mant
etc. Moont is still a family joke....our favorite book used to be Goodnight Moont.
We did nothing to correct it, but it is gone....

Now my 2 yo has started on his own calling football, hitball. Too cute!

Stephanie E.

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In a message dated 10/7/02 11:31:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
stephanie.elms@... writes:


> When Jason was 2, he used to add t's onto the end of words that ended in n.
> Moont, mant
> etc. Moont is still a family joke....our favorite book used to be Goodnight
> Moont.
> We did nothing to correct it, but it is gone....
>
> Now my 2 yo has started on his own calling football, hitball. Too cute!
>
> Stephanie E

My little brother has/had a slight speech impediment when he was little. He
replaced V's with G's. He used to say things were *Heagy* To this day,
everyone in our family still says things like "Be careful! That box is
heagy." He also inserted N's after the R sound. He still says the word *work*
like *wornk* it is almost like a nasal Bostonian accent. And everyone in the
family also picked this up (since we all thought it was so cute that he said
these words like that) so if any of you ever hear me say "Boy this is heagy
wornk!" You won't think I'm too crazy! <g> I still think it is funny that we
picked up on just those two words.
~Nancy


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Mary Bianco

I just love hearing all the stories about kids and how they talk and what
they say. Kids really do say the darndest things don't they?
I'm reading the stories and can almost hear the kids myself.

Alyssa, almost two, has some trouble with certain words that just come out
so cute. Joseph is DoDo, Sierra is RaRa, Tara comes out as plain as day.
When she wants to say yes, it comes out like rah. I guess for yeah. She kind
of sounds like Scooby Doo sometimes!
Yet poophead comes out just as clear as a bell. I have my 16 year old to
thank for that. She also taught her turd. I tell Tara sometimes I think I
have 2 two year olds in the house!!!!! Lately Tara has taken to teaching
Alyssa the song Copacabana. Not exactly one of my favorites, especially when
you hear Tara sing it!!! She sings the lines and Alyssa repeats the last
word of each one. As goofy as I find the song, you can't help but laugh!!!

Mary B



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>
> My little brother has/had a slight speech impediment when he was little.
He
> replaced V's with G's. He used to say things were *Heagy* To this day,
> everyone in our family still says things like "Be careful! That box is
> heagy." He also inserted N's after the R sound. He still says the word
*work*
> like *wornk* it is almost like a nasal Bostonian accent. And everyone in
the
> family also picked this up (since we all thought it was so cute that he
said
> these words like that) so if any of you ever hear me say "Boy this is
heagy
> wornk!" You won't think I'm too crazy! <g> I still think it is funny that
we
> picked up on just those two words.

We've got some like that in our family too. Screwdrivers are goosejabbers
and apricots are paperclops, because that's what Heather called them when
she was two. And Lars used to say uppy for yes. We always joked that he
would answer that when he got married and was asked if he "takes this woman,
etc". Of course he never says it anymore, but we do. I've done it
accidentally in public.
Tia

Andrea

At 08:20 AM 10/8/02 +0000, Stephanie E. wrote:
> When Jason was 2, he used to add t's onto the end of words that ended in
> n. Moont, mant
>etc. Moont is still a family joke....our favorite book used to be
>Goodnight Moont.
>We did nothing to correct it, but it is gone....


My youngest son, Simon, used to add an f onto any word ending in p, as in
jumpf, helpf, and my favourite, "I have to poopf!"

I have been reading the list for a couple of weeks to get the feel of
it. I have been on many e-mail lists over the years and usually I can tell
right away whether I will stay or not. I like the discussions here a lot.

My name is Donna Andrea. I live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with my husband,
John, and three sons: William, ten; Eric, 7; and Simon, 3. We have been
unschooling since birth though back then we didn't even know what it was
called. We do a lot of things with our time, but at the moment my two
older boys are sorting through hundreds of drawings (maybe a month's worth)
to decide which they will keep, and Simon has gone next door to give one of
his drawings to his best friend, Dave, who is 67. Dave will probably give
him a candy in return :-) We are lucky to have good neighbours on all sides.

Donna Andrea

Deborah Lewis

Donna Andrea,
When my sister in law told her youngest artistic daughter the stack of
drawings was getting too high, could she please do something about it...
Emily taped them to the walls and furniture on the night her mother was
hosting a dinner party and sold them for .25 cents apiece. Maybe and
idea for your boys?!

Deb L


On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:17:16 -0300 Andrea <andrea@...>
writes:
>We do a lot of things with our time, but at the moment my
> two
> older boys are sorting through hundreds of drawings (maybe a month's
> worth)
> to decide which they will keep, and Simon has gone next door to give
> one of
> his drawings to his best friend, Dave, who is 67. Dave will
> probably give
> him a candy in return :-) We are lucky to have good neighbours on
> all sides.

kayb85

My son (three) is doing something unusual and cute too. When he
wants two of something, he asks for dose. I don't know where it came
from. No one in our family or anyone we know speaks Spanish. We
don't live in a Spanish speaking area. The only thing I can think is
that he picked it up from tv, like maybe one of those pbs shows. We
don't have Spanish tv here either. "Me want dose".
Sheila



--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/7/02 1:56:31 PM, mummyone24@h... writes:
>
> << Something cute was when Joseph
> was little, he made up a word, amn't. >>
>
> He "made it up" according to rules, and it's not his sole
creation. I've
> seen it in print. It's not his alone.
>
> Kids go through a stage where the things they said before that
were "right"
> are replaced with things their parents consider "wrong," and then
they go
> back to "right."
>
> The "wrong" stage proves that they've learned the rules and
patterns. The
> second right phase proves they've learned that English ignores
rules and
> patterns a lot, and they're learning the exceptions.
>
> Sandra

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Does he watch "Dora the Explorer" on Nickelodeon? They often use Spanish
on that show. My daughter learned how to count to five in Spanish by
watching this show, and often uses the Spanish words for numbers too.

Kevin





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My son (three) is doing something unusual and cute too. When he
wants two of something, he asks for dose. I don't know where it came
from. No one in our family or anyone we know speaks Spanish. We
don't live in a Spanish speaking area. The only thing I can think is
that he picked it up from tv, like maybe one of those pbs shows. We
don't have Spanish tv here either. "Me want dose".
Sheila



--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/7/02 1:56:31 PM, mummyone24@h... writes:
>
> << Something cute was when Joseph
> was little, he made up a word, amn't. >>
>
> He "made it up" according to rules, and it's not his sole
creation. I've
> seen it in print. It's not his alone.
>
> Kids go through a stage where the things they said before that
were "right"
> are replaced with things their parents consider "wrong," and then
they go
> back to "right."
>
> The "wrong" stage proves that they've learned the rules and
patterns. The
> second right phase proves they've learned that English ignores
rules and
> patterns a lot, and they're learning the exceptions.
>
> Sandra


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Yeah, another Canadian!
Kelli, a psuedo-Canadian, (does that make sense?)
Andrea wrote:At 08:20 AM 10/8/02 +0000, Stephanie E. wrote:
> When Jason was 2, he used to add t's onto the end of words that ended in
> n. Moont, mant
>etc. Moont is still a family joke....our favorite book used to be
>Goodnight Moont.
>We did nothing to correct it, but it is gone....


My youngest son, Simon, used to add an f onto any word ending in p, as in
jumpf, helpf, and my favourite, "I have to poopf!"

I have been reading the list for a couple of weeks to get the feel of
it. I have been on many e-mail lists over the years and usually I can tell
right away whether I will stay or not. I like the discussions here a lot.

My name is Donna Andrea. I live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with my husband,
John, and three sons: William, ten; Eric, 7; and Simon, 3. We have been
unschooling since birth though back then we didn't even know what it was
called. We do a lot of things with our time, but at the moment my two
older boys are sorting through hundreds of drawings (maybe a month's worth)
to decide which they will keep, and Simon has gone next door to give one of
his drawings to his best friend, Dave, who is 67. Dave will probably give
him a candy in return :-) We are lucky to have good neighbours on all sides.

Donna Andrea


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>From: "kayb85" <sheran@...>

<<My son (three) is doing something unusual and cute too. When he
wants two of something, he asks for dose. I don't know where it came
from. No one in our family or anyone we know speaks Spanish. We>don't live
in a Spanish speaking area. The only thing I can think is
that he picked it up from tv, like maybe one of those pbs shows. We
don't have Spanish tv here either. "Me want dose".>>



Oh that is cute! Does he watch Dora the explorer on TV? My kids use to watch
that and like it. Maybe Sesame Street, although I don't even know if that's
still on. Maybe he means 'those' as in plural. Maybe he was hispanic in
another life!!!! Whatever, it is cute!

Mary B


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>From: "Tia Leschke" <leschke@...>

<<We've got some like that in our family too. Screwdrivers are goosejabbers
and apricots are paperclops, because that's what Heather called them when
she was two. And Lars used to say uppy for yes. We always joked that he
would answer that when he got married and was asked if he "takes this woman,
etc". Of course he never says it anymore, but we do. I've done it
accidentally in public.>>


Oh that is too cute!! Goosejabbers and paperclops!! LOL!!!!
When Tara was little, it took us a long time to figure out what lemmecups
was. Finally when she was around a year and hald, she asked me to sing the
lemmecups song. I finally got that she meant lollipops!! (Okay my age is
showing here. It was an old song for you youngsters!) We never did figure
out what poppatees and eabidas were!

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My favorite in our family so far is: my son and I are riding in the car and we are talking about careers,(he is a whole 4 years old at the time) And he says I really want to be a heartattack. And I'm thinking, what? Ok, he's suicidal, and I say what do you mean? Like Daddy wanted to be, a heartattack! Still don't get it,,I say, Honey, a heart attack is a bad thing, you can get really sick and you can even die from them you don't want a heart attack. No, says Alec, like Daddy wanted to be a heart attack!! Finally I remember that my husband wanted to be an architect when he grew up! So cute! He also called hamburgers, handaburgers, hard word for him.

Kelli

Tia Leschke wrote:>
> My little brother has/had a slight speech impediment when he was little.
He
> replaced V's with G's. He used to say things were *Heagy* To this day,
> everyone in our family still says things like "Be careful! That box is
> heagy." He also inserted N's after the R sound. He still says the word
*work*
> like *wornk* it is almost like a nasal Bostonian accent. And everyone in
the
> family also picked this up (since we all thought it was so cute that he
said
> these words like that) so if any of you ever hear me say "Boy this is
heagy
> wornk!" You won't think I'm too crazy! <g> I still think it is funny that
we
> picked up on just those two words.

We've got some like that in our family too. Screwdrivers are goosejabbers
and apricots are paperclops, because that's what Heather called them when
she was two. And Lars used to say uppy for yes. We always joked that he
would answer that when he got married and was asked if he "takes this woman,
etc". Of course he never says it anymore, but we do. I've done it
accidentally in public.
Tia


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In a message dated 10/8/02 3:21:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> We've got some like that in our family too. Screwdrivers are goosejabbers
> and apricots are paperclops, because that's what Heather called them when
> she was two. And Lars used to say uppy for yes. We always joked that he
> would answer that when he got married and was asked if he "takes this
> woman,
> etc". Of course he never says it anymore, but we do. I've done it
> accidentally in public.
> Tia

LOL goosejabbers! How cute! We also have an interchangeable word in our
family. One day my Mom was relining the pantry shelves with shelf paper and
she said she had to go get more shelf paper at the store. She left and came
home to a shelf covered in panty liners! My little sister was so proud of
herself! She told Mom that she found the pantry liners in the bathroom. So
now we call shelf paper pantry liner and panty liners pantry liners. <g> Poor
Darin was so confused the day he saw me write pantry liners on the grocery
list. He got to the store and searched all over and even asked a clerk. He
called me and told me he couldn't find them. When I told him what I needed,
he groaned and flat out refused to buy them. He was so embarrassed.
~Nancy


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marji

I just can't stay out of this any longer! I LOVE those kid-isms! Liam
used to call a picture "pickahj" and garbage was boddage. But, my sister
used to call the television set chowange-chowange and her elbows were
mombows. I could never figure out why people laughed every time I referred
to the television set, but I later found out that I had been calling it a
TB or a telebision. People can be soooo picky!

Liam at nearly 8 still has wonderful Liam-isms, but they are rapidly fading
away. He only just lost his first tooth a couple of weeks ago. He had
heard plenty about the tooth fairy (not from me!), and I was all set to do
the deed, but he told me that his first tooth was too special and that he
wanted to save it. He's a heart-breaker!

Marji

At 20:30 10/8/02 +0000, Mary B wrote:
>Oh that is too cute!! Goosejabbers and paperclops!! LOL!!!!
>When Tara was little, it took us a long time to figure out what lemmecups
>was. Finally when she was around a year and hald, she asked me to sing the
>lemmecups song. I finally got that she meant lollipops!! (Okay my age is
>showing here. It was an old song for you youngsters!) We never did figure
>out what poppatees and eabidas were!
>
>Mary B




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Kimber

<<<I had a friend, who although I wasn't around to hear it, told of her one
daughter who had a hard time with dumptruck. She was fascinated by them and
would holler out, "Mom, look at that dumfuck!!" Needless to say the mom was
highly embarassed not to mention some of the comments she heard from others.

Mary B>>>



That story is too funny!
It reminded me of one time in the car with my son(then 8), daughter and her friend. My son asked me what a condom was. I hesitated.......and then, being the open-minded, ask me anything kind of mom I am, I gave a brief, matter of fact description of what a condom is and what it is used for. He gave me a very confused look so I asked him why he had wanted to know.....and he said "cause Rayne (the friend) is going to one this weekend"......????
It took me about a minute to realize that he meant condo.... I remembered that my friend and her daughter were going to another friend's condominium to visit for the weekend.

Kimber




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Mary Bianco

>From: Kelli Traaseth <kellitraas@...>

<<My favorite in our family so far is: my son and I are riding in the car
and we are talking about careers,(he is a whole 4 years old at the time) And
he says I really want to be a heartattack. And I'm thinking, what? Ok,
he's suicidal, and I say what do you mean? Like Daddy wanted to be, a
heartattack! Still don't get it,,I say, Honey, a heart attack is a bad
thing, you can get really sick and you can even die from them you don't want
a heart attack. No, says Alec, like Daddy wanted to be a heart attack!!
Finally I remember that my husband wanted to be an architect when he grew
up! So cute! He also called hamburgers, handaburgers, hard word for him.>>


LOL!!!!! Oh that's a really cute one. I can imagine what you were thinking
when you first heard that one!

I had a friend, who although I wasn't around to hear it, told of her one
daughter who had a hard time with dumptruck. She was fascinated by them and
would holler out, "Mom, look at that dumfuck!!" Needless to say the mom was
highly embarassed not to mention some of the comments she heard from others.

Mary B


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Myranda

LMAO! That reminds me, Tyler was almost two and we were in Red Lobster one night (yes, I used to have money LOL) and asked very loudly for a fork - leaving the R out and changing the O to a U sound!
Myranda
LOL!!!!! Oh that's a really cute one. I can imagine what you were thinking
when you first heard that one!

I had a friend, who although I wasn't around to hear it, told of her one
daughter who had a hard time with dumptruck. She was fascinated by them and
would holler out, "Mom, look at that dumfuck!!" Needless to say the mom was
highly embarassed not to mention some of the comments she heard from others.

Mary B


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Mary Bianco

>From: Dnowens@...

<<One day my Mom was relining the pantry shelves with shelf paper and
she said she had to go get more shelf paper at the store. She left and came
home to a shelf covered in panty liners! My little sister was so proud of
herself! She told Mom that she found the pantry liners in the bathroom.>>


ROTFLMAO!!!!!! That is just too cute. I can just picture what that must have
looked like. Did anyone get a picture???

Mary B

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At 12:17 PM 10/8/02 -0300, Andrea wrote:

>I have been reading the list for a couple of weeks to get the feel of
>it. I have been on many e-mail lists over the years and usually I can tell
>right away whether I will stay or not. I like the discussions here a lot.
>
>My name is Donna Andrea. I live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with my husband,
>John, and three sons: William, ten; Eric, 7; and Simon, 3.
==
Welcome to the list, Donna! Nice to meet'cha :)

I'm Todd in the U.S., in Missouri. Married to Ren, and have two kids -10 & 7.
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I hope everyone is writing down these cute little things that their kids are
saying. At least if your memory is anything like mine. I must admit I don't
write everything down but some are a must.

Every Halloween, I still remember when Joseph was about 4 and would look at
a house and if it was decorated would dub that house as "trick or
treatable."

Mary B



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Lisa M. C. Bentley

> My son (three) is doing something unusual and cute too. When he
> wants two of something, he asks for dose. I don't know where it came
> from. No one in our family or anyone we know speaks Spanish. We
> don't live in a Spanish speaking area. The only thing I can think is
> that he picked it up from tv, like maybe one of those pbs shows. We
> don't have Spanish tv here either. "Me want dose".

Maybe he is trying to say "those"? Very cute of him!

My two year old daughter thinks in terms of balls. She absolutely loves
balls. So an apple is an "ap-ball" a bubble is a "bub-ball". I love
hearing these cute little words.

-Lisa in AZ

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In a message dated 10/8/2002 6:25:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mummyone24@... writes:


> One day my Mom was relining the pantry shelves with shelf paper and
> she said she had to go get more shelf paper at the store. She left and came
>
> home to a shelf covered in panty liners! My little sister was so proud of
> herself! She told Mom that she found the pantry liners in the bathroom.>>
>
>
> ROTFLMAO!!!!!! That is just too cute. I can just picture what that must
> have
> looked like. Did anyone get a picture???
>

Reminds me of my son (3yo) who ran at me in the grocery store, clutching a
package of maxi-pads, and calling, "Look, Mommy, do you need some diapers?"
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