Age 5 has brought a new level of questions to our house, where answering a why question is no longer enough. Nate, particularly, will push and push for an answer that is "acceptable" to him. Last night the boys were setting the table while I cooked dinner and this conversation took place.
Nate: Can I touch that blue stuff? [The gas flame!]
Laura: You can touch it, but it would burn you really badly. The bluer a flame is, the hotter it is. This is hotter than a wood fire. [Engineering degree, holla!]
Nate: Can I just touch it for a second? Before it burned me?
Laura: It is so hot, it would burn all your skin off. The burn might be so bad, they would have to cut off your finger. Then how would you use a pencil? How would you pick your nose? [Nate has a nose picking problem we are trying to fix.]
Alex: hahahahahahahahaha
Nate: I don't use that finger to write with a pencil.
Laura: Then go ahead and touch it and burn off your finger.
11 comments:
I literally laughed out loud. :)
Make sure you don't teach him the finger through the candle flame trick!
Did he let it go after that, or have some other response?
That kid can think and talk his way out of any scenario!
Baw ha ha ha! I'm going to be laughing over this all day. I think the threat of not being able to pick your nose is the most awesome motivator ever!
Also, it's possible that Michael and I had a discussion about different elements burning different colors last week.
Many of our conversations in the car turn to a line of questioning that often ends with me saying, "If you do that, a police officer could see and you or mommy could get arrested. Do you want to go to jail?" Awesome.
That was so funny! And I think even more so because it sounded like some or other conversation I have with my 5 year olds every day. Some days I just throw my hands in the air and say: "Just go ahead and do whatever you want to do!" Then of course they get all wary and unsure, like I've just thrown them to the wolves!
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY, this is my child as well! I answer the same question at least three different ways before its dropped. Usually though if I say something will send her to the ER, that gets the point across--she is terrified of going to the ER.
Lana is also an expert negotiator. There are always at least 3 reasons as to why she cannot do something when I ask her to. Nothing makes me crazier. Just do it. Because I am the mom. The end.
I started laughing so hard I started choking on the snack I was eating! Too funny!
Yes, yes, and yes. Good lord, NOTHING is accepted without further questioning these days. Holy crap.
Hysterical!! On so many different levels. Mad props on your "holla!!"
Unfortunately, I've always been that kind of mom. Oops.
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