Another fun post inspired by the innocent things that children say.
When my middle son was due to start school, he was very excited.He went with me to meet his teacher. When we returned home and his dad asked what the teacher was like, he told him,
“She has hair here and hair here,” while touching each side of his head. The teacher had a middle parting in her long hair, which sort of made sense to me. My husband told me that he was imagining a woman with the opposite of a Mahican!
My eldest son would describe people by the colours they were wearing. Visiting the library he told me, “It’s a blue lady today, not a green one like last week.” when referring to the librarian behind the desk.
A girl that I used to child mind said that she didn’t want to go to the toddler group that she usually enjoyed because ” there is a scary lady there” I couldn’t think who she would think was scary as everyone was lovely. It turned out to be one of the nicest ladies I know, who had simply asked her to help put away some toys at the end of last week’s session.
Another child said rather loudly when we were at the park, ” Here comes little, big mouth” when a friend of mine was approaching ( luckily she hadn’t heard him)
When I told him that it wasn’t a very nice thing to say he replied ” Well she is little and has a big mouth!” I didn’t know what to say to this as she was little in height and did talk quite loudly.
My sons used to refer to a work colleague of mine as Silly Kenny” He was often messing around and was called Ken, so I couldn’t really argue with them.
Please share experiences of children describing others,
As always questions and comments ( which I love to read) are welcome.
Until next time.
Karen
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This blog made me smile, my husband and I have certain names for people we worked with , we still refer to these workmates when mentioning them to each other.
Kids are blunt and honest and I love that about them. I remember my nephew, when he was six or seven, yelling out the window at my mum after a bad hair dye job “Nanna, why’s your hair yellow?”
Except he couldn’t say yellow, so he said it in Welsh. #kcacols
Got to love the thought process and descriptions of a child! #KCACOLS
Kids can be hilarious! My son asked me the other day if I was fat (I’m chubby so not offended) but they are so honest #KCACOLS
With my love of weird hair colours and tattoos I would love to hear hiw kids describe me 😁
Its amazing how the things that we would consider to be the defining physical characteristics of a person they sometimes are completely oblivious to. Completely different perspectives #KCACOLS
My kids used to describe people by their shape and height rather than how they acted #globalblogging
I love the way children’s minds work! #abitofeverything
This is so sweet and innocent, it really made me smile! We forget sometimes that tact has to be taught don’t we?! And yet sometimes it’s the obvious things the children don’t even pick up on when describing someone. Ahh, the innocence of youth hey? #TriumphantTales
Popping back from #KCACOLS! I always cringe when we have to ask our class (mine is year 1, age 5/6) to draw a portraits of us, the teachers! The one of me that went up on the school website was cringeworthy! #KCACOLS
This post has really made me smile! I have a little book to write down the cute or funny things my children say and I look back through it sometimes which always makes me smile! #KCACOLS
My eldest used to shout out ‘there’s a bald’ when he spotted anyone follically challenged: very embarrassing! Thanks for linking up with #globalblogging
I love kids’ honesty! #KCACOLS
I love the innocence of kids and the way they are so matter of fact! Brilliant! If only we could get away with it! Thank you for sharing this with #TriumphantTales. Do come back next week!
Popping back via #abitofeverything!
This made me smile! I love the innocence of children and I really wish we all (or most) of us didn’t grow out of it! #KCACOLS
I love the description as adults as colours! My son was always really honest and would call people by names but then ask them why they had a wrinkly face or big bum. Luckily people often took it well 🤣 #KCACOLS
My mum was a teacher and one of her colleagues was drawn, hairy legs and all! Remember what is on a child’s level… Thanks for linking up with #stayclassymama