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Children below the age of 8 are from another planet.
I was watching two children tonight. Nadene, who is 6, and Lucas, who is 5.
I was sitting in my room just reading an old magazine and petting pepper when Nadene storms in, shuts the door and proclaims that the room is “Girls Only” that being said she informed me that her brother could not come in because he was a boy.
She enlightened me with other interesting facts I was not previously aware of. Apparently my cat, pepper, likes to get his tailed pulled and that hissing means he’s happy. I did not know these things.
Lucas entered the room. I thought that maybe a quiet game would calm them down so I took some pennies from my dresser and I said that we would have a competition to see who could stack the highest tower. This didn’t amuse them as much as I had hoped and instead they began throwing the pennies against my door whilst screaming “TARTAR SAUCE! TARTAR SAUCE!” They told me to join the game and I did despite the fact that I didn’t understand the rules.
Nadene said she wanted to draw Ooboo. I thought I had misheard her so I had asked, “You want to draw an oboe?” I gave her an orange marker and she began to draw. All pictures drawn by children at age 6 tend to look the same. A cow looks like a duck and a duck looks like an boat and a boat looks like a picture of their mom. So, when she showed me the picture she drew of Ooboo it looked like a blob so I took a wild guess and said, “Is Ooboo a cat?” She looked at me like I was crazy and said, “No. Ooboo is my favourite character. He’s a blob”…well alrighty then, I guess her picture did look like what it was supposed to look like.
Anyways, I gave piggy-back rides, played hide-and-go-seek, had a tea party and was referred to as “the girlfriend” a couple times.
I was watching two children tonight. Nadene, who is 6, and Lucas, who is 5.
I was sitting in my room just reading an old magazine and petting pepper when Nadene storms in, shuts the door and proclaims that the room is “Girls Only” that being said she informed me that her brother could not come in because he was a boy.
She enlightened me with other interesting facts I was not previously aware of. Apparently my cat, pepper, likes to get his tailed pulled and that hissing means he’s happy. I did not know these things.
Lucas entered the room. I thought that maybe a quiet game would calm them down so I took some pennies from my dresser and I said that we would have a competition to see who could stack the highest tower. This didn’t amuse them as much as I had hoped and instead they began throwing the pennies against my door whilst screaming “TARTAR SAUCE! TARTAR SAUCE!” They told me to join the game and I did despite the fact that I didn’t understand the rules.
Nadene said she wanted to draw Ooboo. I thought I had misheard her so I had asked, “You want to draw an oboe?” I gave her an orange marker and she began to draw. All pictures drawn by children at age 6 tend to look the same. A cow looks like a duck and a duck looks like an boat and a boat looks like a picture of their mom. So, when she showed me the picture she drew of Ooboo it looked like a blob so I took a wild guess and said, “Is Ooboo a cat?” She looked at me like I was crazy and said, “No. Ooboo is my favourite character. He’s a blob”…well alrighty then, I guess her picture did look like what it was supposed to look like.
Anyways, I gave piggy-back rides, played hide-and-go-seek, had a tea party and was referred to as “the girlfriend” a couple times.