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Heard Today

Posted by Deb on Monday May 1, 2006 at 10:36 pm

Jack isn’t allowed to play out at the front of our house without someone watching him, and I always make sure one of the others knows he has full responsibility, because if two or more share it, they all think someone else will do it. That goes for everything, not just watching Jack. But anyway.

Today Freddy volunteered. A minute later Jack came through the house to get some sidewalk chalk. No problem.

A minute after Jack went back out the front, Freddy came in. “Where’s your brother?!” we exclaimed. Freddy turned to go back out the front, saying “well I drew a chalk line on the driveway to keep him in…”

Right. Because everyone knows that four-year-olds are not physically capable of stepping over a chalk-line on the ground. What could we have been thinking?

I think the following two comments, made over the last 24 hours, sum up much of my life right now:

To Scratchy, when we were about to start dinner and various children were whining about geting the “wrong” colour cup, and Scratchy had just knocked a large cup of orange juice all over the table, chair and floor whilst trying to pour someone else’s drink: “Would this be a bad time to say I think I want another baby?”

To anyone under the age of 12 who was listening today: “Go and play outside now – and if you’re really lucky, we won’t lock the door behind you.”

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