Words of a Child

Tonight as I tucked the boys in, some brother quotes occured that must be shared! I’m not sure if they are amusing or frightening–you be the judge.

Deep Thinker asked me to give him some division problems. His teacher praised him for asking for extra work. This made him feel soooo proud. Now he forces me to teach him extra stuff so that he can keep doing extra work (the opinion of a teacher goes a long, long way with children…it’s very touching–thank goodness his teachers have all been kind!)

SO, I was giving him division problems like “What’s 36 divided by 6?” and stuff like this. Then Rowdy Rebel needed to join in. He wanted “minus problems.” (Of course, I was dead tired and barely able to keep my eyes open, but you can’t really leave at that point…It would be unfair.)

I said, “Okay, what’s 5 minus 2?” Rowdy Rebel thought about it, but didn’t answer.

So, Deep Thinker jumps in to HELP: “Hey, you got 5 fingers. Ya get 2 of them cut off by a sword. How many do ya have left?”

The really scary part–unphased, Rowdy Rebel yelled “TWOOOOOO!”

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