The kids and I go for a walk around the entire town every morning. It takes about an hour, which is good because they get into much less trouble when they're moving. On today's walk we found a dead smashed crab on the side of the road and I took the trouble of pointing it out to the girls so they would know what would happen to them if they ran out in the street. I recognize a good teaching moment when I see one! Well, Rivka's brow furrowed and she thought about that poor crab for a few blocks and I was wondering if maybe the analogy was a bit too gory for her. Then she asked me:
"Do crabs have chin eggs?"
"I don't know honey. What are chin eggs?"
"Its when they split open."
"When what splits open?"
"The chin eggs!" (She was pretty exasperated that I wasn't getting it.)
"You never told me what chin eggs are."
Sigh. In a condescending tone- "When the little crab eggs hatch out they split the eggs open like chins."
"Ohhhh... you mean like when you split your chin open?" (I'm a little slow.)
"Yeah, and so do crabs and eggs." (She then rolled her eyes at me like I was the dumbest person in the world. The logic of a three-year-old takes me a while to grasp.)
On a different walk a few days ago we passed by the local high school while they were have P.E. Some kids were playing soccer and the rest were running laps around the field. Then I noticed that about half the kids weren't wearing any shoes. And most of the shoeless ones were girls. The only thing I can figure is that all of them can only afford one pair of shoes and girls usually wear sandals- not tennis shoes. If it were me, though, I would rather run in my flip flops than barefoot.
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Rivka is very bright to put all that together. Good you wrote that conversation all down. She is going to love reading it when she is older!
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