Jackson’s on spring break this week so this will probably be my only update, to tell you that there won’t be any updates.
Jackson (during opening credits for an Iron Man cartoon): “What does that say?”
Me: “It says Marvel. That’s the company that owns the Iron Man comic books.”
Jackson: “Marvel TM.”
Me: “Trademark.”
Jackson: “TM means it can’t be interfered with.”
Me: “You can’t interfere with Iron Man?”
Jackson: “We learned that on the science museum field trip.”
When Jackson was a baby, I knew everything he knew because I’d taught it to him. First grade and that’s ALL OVER.
Damn right no one interferes with Iron Man. Unless he’s on one of his drunken binges.
Just wait until he’s 15 and you take him to Los Alamos Laboratory’s Museum in New Mexico for Spring Break. He’ll know more about the events and timelines of World War II and wil be able to describe it with great clarity and confidence. At least that’s what mine did.
Somedays, I still can teach him a thing or two…
Yeah, knowledge is sometimes a bad thing but in this case it makes it one of those priceless moments.
Totally funny! I don’t know how many times my 7 year old has told why something is the way that it is, and I’ve been all, “wow, really?!”
‘Round here we don’t like to be out-knowledged by the five year old, so when he spouts off about things like “the Earth’s axis is tilted 26 degrees to its orbital plane,” we just say “suuuurrre it is, son.”
My daughters are 10 and just completed a city police department DARE program. (The Canadian equivalent to JUST SAY NO in the US I would imagine).
It is truly humbling to have your kid question your use of alcohol. Just you wait.
I am so sorry. I should have warned you of this fact. ;o)
And then you vacilate between relief that you don’t have to know everything and sadness that someone else is filling your kid’s head with garbage…er, knowledge.
Isn’t that last line the truth??!! Haha.
Too funny. When our five-year-old asks him an question and I answer him, he always asks, “How do you know?” I always says, “Mommies know everything.” But darn it if the questions aren’t getting harder already!
“When Jackson was a baby, I knew everything he knew because I’d taught it to him. First grade and that’s ALL OVER.”
That’s the good news AND the bad news.
I just had to delurk to say, Oh, YES! My twins are 6; my nephew just turned 1 and my sister is already mock-dismayed with the changes.
But 6 is still young enough that when one of my daughters was lecturing me about something she’d learned about a certain woodland creature, she kept referring to ‘chick-munks.’ Made me happy.
That’s scary and wonderful all at the same time.
homeschooled kids do the same thing. Kids might know more trivial things than we do but they don’t know nuthin’ until they can make dinner, do laundry, breastfeed, bake bread, talk on the phone and blog about it all at the same time!
God, I still remember that moment and my son is now 34.