I’m so impressed with something that my son did yesterday that I thought I would share it with you.
We had an exended family gathering yesterday for a belated celebration of my birthday. My mum and dad, my brother and his family and my three kids, plus one boyfriend. Oh and me and hubby of course.
Little sam (age 7) had previously wrapped some of his toys in newspaper and wanted to play pass the parcel with these. We had said NO. So sam did a survey and asked everyone in the party whether they wanted to play pass the parcel. He drew 2 collumns on a piece of paper and went round everyone with his clipboard and ticked the various responses. He then came to us and said - look 10 people want to play pass the parcel and only you two dont.
I was very impressed and have no idea where he got the idea to do this from.
AND that calls for an investigation of how many ballots were turned in under false names or the names of dead people. AND if the pencil he used was defective and marked the wrong column.
He doesn’t play with his Action Man, but loves bits of paper (mostly cut up), pens, writing, cipboards, stapelers, etc. Later on in the same party he found it hilarious to throw torn up bits of toilet paper around and shout “it’s snowing”. I wasn’t quite so impressed with that.
Cathy
PS thanks everyone else for your replies, they were hilarious
Never, ever, underestimate the power of a kid’s mind. They are far more capable than most suspect. By five they have learned to speak well and much more, so we should not really be surprised at their other achievements. One lad known to me, at age five, was nightly treated to an application of a bottled clear facial cleanser by his mother. The brand name is Eskinol, and apparently it had a reputation for clearing up all known skin problems. It also had a side effect in that it had quite a nasty sting to it. I suppose rather like after-shave liquid. So although it “was doing him good” he would try to run away and scream as it was applied.
And this continued, each evening he would fight and scream as it was applied.
Then one day his mother developed a couple of facial spots and applied some to her own face. It felt wrong…no pain…and the smell…different.
The kid eventually confessed that he had emptied the bottle a month before and refilled it with water, but for the whole month still went through acting out the pain and the fighting sufficiently well to convince his mother that all was normal.
Quite a well thought out plot for a 5 year old.
