Words of a Child

We need a new car, so there are a lot of discussions about cars these days.
Deep Thinker keeps pointing out models he knows to be expensive. But I keep responding that there is no point in owning an expensive car. We don’t need expensive things. We just need to be able to transport ourselves from [...]

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Rowdy Rebel was “helping” me cook dinner the other night.
He asked, “Mom, did you have any babies before you and Dad got married?”
I said no.
He said, “Ohhhhh, so ya have to be married to have babies.” I said, yes, pretty much.
And he explained, “Well, butterflies don’t have to be married to have babies. They just [...]

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This was a fun dialogue we had today on the way home from summer camp.
Rowdy Rebel: “Mom, do you know anyone who has a uni-bra?”
Deep Thinker: “Ummmm, do you mean a uni-brow?”
Rowdy Rebel: “Oh yeah. So Mom, do you know anyone who has a uni-bra?”

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We were driving back home from Lake Arrowhead a few weeks ago. Suddenly, the boys started talking about mummies. I have no idea why or how the topic arose…but Rowdy Rebel and Deep Thinker had some serious messages. Here is what they said:
Rowdy Rebel: “Mom, you cannot EVER marry a mummy.”
Me: “Okay. I won’t.”
Rowdy Rebel: [...]

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One of my favorite evening activities is what I think of as “one by one” walks. By this, I mean that I like to take each of my boys for an individual walk and catch up with their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and just spend a little one on one time. With three boys, the “one [...]

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I thought I’d encountered a “teachable moment” with my second grader last week. He mentioned that a friend of his had said that their family is running low on money.
My son loves math, and he also loves thinking about business and making money–therefore, we often talk about math in terms of numbers, and he’s always [...]

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Rowdy Rebel read to me for the first time tonight. At first, he was pretending to read.
It’s a story called “The Big Hungry Bear.” It’s about a mouse that finds a strawberry and ends up sharing it with a bear.  Kids LOVE that story. I never really got into that story for some reason, but [...]

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Deep Thinker has caught wind of the economic troubles in our country. He’s all about money. He was the first one in his class to learn how to add all of the coins to make a dollar. Each day, he has a new idea on how he’s going to make lots of money. The other [...]

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My husband’s work hours have gotten easier, so now when he comes home, I get to take walks! I take the baby and Rowdy Rebel for a walk first. We walk for about 45 minutes. Then we come back and I take Deep Thinker.
I love walking with them one at a time. When we all [...]

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Bully stories and movies scare me. As a parent, especially a parent of boys, one of my worst fears is that my children will be bullied in school. This fear grew exponentially before my first son (Deep Thinker) was even two! He was so passive that he let other children take his toys, moved out [...]

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