You learn a new vocabulary when you become a parent. Suddenly you live in a world where you use odd words like ‘onesie’ and ‘bouncer’, and can describe your kid’s poop with ten different adjectives and a straight face.
Parenting a toddler also requires some linguistic modification. Instead of new words, though, this new phase involves sentence construction through the apposition of words that I never thought I’d use together.
· Is there pee on that towel?
· Don’t be scared; flies are happy!
· Underwear goes on first.
· Bath water isn’t for drinking.
· Take that bread off your foot.
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Ian Frazier said it so well in his exposition "Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father": "Neither drink of your own bath water, nor of bath water of any kind; nor rub your feet on bread, even if it be in the package; nor rub yourself against cars, nor against any building; nor eat sand...lest you be cast into quiet time".
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