[Ads-l] Language and children

[Joel Berson]

Both my sister-in-law and her daughter were skillful artists.  One day they were both at the table, drawing, watched by my nephew (aged about 6 or 7 as best I remember), my brother, and myself.  He remarked, "Mommy, you and Jessica are both good drawers.  It must be in your pants."

Somewhat off topic:  This nephew is also reputed (at a somewhat younger age) to have looked down from his 20th-floor apartment room at large, noisy truck on the New York City street below, and asked his father what kind of a truck it was.  Told it was a garbage truck, he asked a second question, "Does it bring the garbage?"

Joel


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When my son was 4 or 5 years-old, the TV evening news was reporting that 'guerillas' were invading some foreign country somewhere (can't remember exactly where). Frightened at hearing this, my son ran to me and asked, "Mommy, are the 'gorillas'  coming to get us too?"  He's grown now and still finds the story amusing, though corny.  
--Margaret Lee

 
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I recall in 1985, I was sitting in my room working when my landlady's son
(about 4 years old) wandered in to snoop around. He picked something up and
said, "What's this, Wawwen?" I said, "That's a shoe horn."  "Oh." Then he
started blowing through a little hole in the handle.

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