Being that my son E- is now firmly 2-and-a-half, the following is the nice version of most every conversation we have with him these days.
J-: Okay E-, it's bedtime.
E- (jumbling up something he's heard us tell ourselves as we serve dinner at bedtime these days): Nooo... it's winner-time!
Me: Did you mean "summertime"?
E-: 'Es.
J- (unmoved by this ingenious ploy): Well, it's night-night time either way.
E-: No it not... (looking out the window, for effect) ...It mornin' time!
He went to bed shortly afterward, under formal protest.
You may enjoy my previous E- conversations, (9YO son) D- conversations, (6YO daughter) M- conversations, and (wife) J- conversations.
2 comments:
I think you're a teen before you appreciate the offer of going to bed rather than fight it. 'Es, 'es indeed.
How long until he fell asleep?
But it is good he works to increase his vocabulary as he tries to make a point. The odd motivations for learning new words.
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