This week I have been noticing more often then normal all the funny things my kids do and
especially say. So I wanted to jot some down to remember them.
Josie- Last Sunday at church Josie's Primary Teacher came up to Jon and told him this story.
Josie was
using the color yellow to color a picture in class.
Teacher " I like your picture Josie"
Josie "Thanks, I'm using a church color"
Teacher "A church color?" not understanding
Josie "yeah, yellow is a church color. I learned about it in school. The art teacher told us."
Teacher, still not understanding, leaves it be and moves on to realize a moment later what she had missed. Yellow is a "primary" color. So in Josie's mind that knows primary as being a class in church
naturally connected the primary colors she learned about in school to her church primary. I love little kid logic.
Tressa-
Tressa found a disposable waterproof camera , that we used while we were in Hawaii, the other day and started playing with it. Which reminded me that I still need to have the pictures developed, so I told her not to play to much with the knobs just in case they could damage the pictures.
So she started asking how to see the pictures.
I told her I had to get them developed.
She asked how she saw them in the camera.
I told her you can't see the pictures in the camera
because it was a film camera.
She then told me to go load them on the computer.
I told her I can't.
She asked if Dad could.
I said no, that the film had to be developed.
She asked why.
Finally I realized that she didn't get what a film camera was. So I tried to explain how the camera's I grew up with worked. We even showed her some negatives. I don't think she really got it since every camera she has ever sat in front of has shown the picture in the screen on the back right after it was taken. In fact the most common phrase at our house when a picture is
taken is "Can I see".
It is odd for me to think how much the
world has changed in my short 27 years that my very bright daughter wouldn't understand how things in my childhood had worked.
As I am writing this I
realize how
often the confusion on their side takes an epiphany on my side in understanding where they are getting confused or where their logic is coming from to fix the misunderstanding, instead of the other way around. Almost every time what they are saying makes
sense from there perspective and I have to figure out what that perspective is so that I can
explain the
difference. Sometimes I think my kids are too smart for their own good, but most of the time I marvel at the way their brains work and the
conclusions they come to on their own. Even when they don't get it right-or maybe I am the one that is wrong. After all yellow is a church color in many ways.
