fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

Thu Aug 22 13:05:56 UTC 2013

Yesterday, my four year old child said "if I'm talking about myself only,
I'm a children. But if I'm talking about me and Edward, we are childs
because we are two." When I asked him where he heard the word 'childs', he
said 'sometimes you say this is another child's bag'.

Leher

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Tom Roeper <roeper at linguist.umass.edu>wrote:

> Here's a few from my book Prism of Grammar (and from my children):
>
> at 3yrs my son said, when he had a stomach ache:
>     "there's a fire-engine in my stomach"
>
> my daughter said one day:
>      "My mind is very angry, and so am I"
> when I asked my son why he is good at chess he said:
>     "because I use my brain, instead of thinking"
> or his first use of recursion:
>     "I am not as tall as you as Mom"
>
> These allow us to think a little bit,don't they---
>
> Tom Roeper
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Elena Nicoladis <elenan at ualberta.ca>wrote:
>
>> My 3.5 French-English bilingual daughter announced one day (in English),
>> "I have a spicy bum!"
>>
>> Took us hours to figure out that she meant that she meant that she had an
>> itchy bum (spicy = piquant (Fr); piquer (Fr) = to itch).
>>
>> Elena
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Roberta Golinkoff <Roberta at udel.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Great idea! Will you please share when you collect these?
>>>
>>> My grandchild looked down his mom's shirt at her cleavage and said,
>>> "That a butt?" He had a gap that needed filling...
>>>
>>> Best, Roberta
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Bruno <brunilda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I like to use attention grabbers the first day of class in my language
>>>> acquisition courses. I usually mention the fis phenomenon, McNeill and
>>>> Braine on negative evidence, and some fun errors (for example from Erika
>>>> Hoff's and Eve Clark's books, with attribution). Students laugh and become
>>>> really interested in figuring out why kids say the darnedest things.
>>>> I was wondering if somebody can share examples that can be used this
>>>> way or if people have some favorite ones they use.
>>>> Thanks all.
>>>>
>>>> Bruno
>>>> Bruno Estigarribia
>>>> Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and
>>>> Literatures
>>>> Research Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science Program
>>>> Affiliate Faculty, Global Studies
>>>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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>> Elena Nicoladis
>>
>> "Since all the sciences, and especially psychology, are still immersed in
>> such tremendous realms of the uncertain and the unknown, the best that any
>> individual scientist, especially any psychologist, can do seems to be to
>> follow his own gleam and his own bent, however inadequate they may be. In
>> fact, I suppose that actually this is what we all do. In the end, the only
>> sure criterion is to have fun."
>> Edward Tolman
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