Can you describe your kids by how they would each answer a question?

[Robin Hood]

I overhead my dd talking to her friend about spelling. Her use of many words makes me laugh when I think of what my other dd would have said.

It made wonder how you would describe your kids in how they would answer the same question. I'll give you an example by starting.

The question was, "Do you like spelling?"

Younger 9yodd: "Yes, I like spelling. I don't really like it. Sometimes it's not very hard and then I like it. Well, I really love it."

Older 9yodd: "I hate it."

or

Me: Did anybody call while I was in the shower?

Younger: I never had to ask the question. She no longer hears water running and skips to door while singing a tune. Knock, knock, knock. "Mooomyyy, Daddy called. I heard the phone ring while I was petting Jasmine so I answered it. He asked if he could talk to you so I told him you were in the shower. Then I walked over the the refrigerator and and got a carrot for Jaz. I asked Daddy how was work and he said he has a lot to do still and then the phone made a noise and I said "Daddy? Are you there?" and he said yes. Then Kali started to talk to me so I told her to be quiet and Daddy said he wants you to call him back."

Older: "Yes. Daddy."

Will you describe your kids' conversations?

[gardenschooler]

ROFLOL on the long-winded one. I have one like that. I want to scream, "Get to the point!!"

Here's my sample question. I enter an argument going on between dd15 and dd13. Witness is dd9.

Me: "What on earth is going on in here? Why are you two always screaming? (Blah blah blah)."

DD9: "M took G's makeup, and G hit M."

DD15: "Why can't I ever have anything? You buy her everything. I have to use my own money to buy my makeup, and then she has the NERVE to steal it. I can't believe you are going to let her get away with this. I can't wait until I can move out in 2 years, 5 months, 18 days and 29 seconds."

DD13: "Yes, I took her makeup. I took it because I had the exact same makeup last summer - remember I got it for my birthday? I put it in my green purse, tucked it behind my clothes in the 2nd drawer. I still have the receipt. I marked it with invisible ink because I knew she would probably steal it. Well, the very next day it mysteriously disappeared, like everything else I own does. I've been looking for it ever since, and now that I've found it, I just need to check it to see if it's mine, but I already know it is. When my $10 went missing last April, G didn't know that I had taken pictures of each and every bill, so I had record of the serial numbers. I caught her red-handed. I can't believe you aren't going to do anything to her!"


(Meanwhile, dd9 has drawn a very detailed depiction of the crime scene).

Oh, wait, we have to have a whole 'nuther conversation about the hitting, after we get to the bottom of the mystery of the stolen makeup. I'll spare you that one. It's exhausting.

[Kate in VA]

you guys are too funny..... these are the downfalls of having an only!!!!

But you did give me such a good laugh! and I needed that! :D

[Lorna in the boonies]

Question: Why are you homeschooled?

DD15: Because Mom's mean and won't let me go to public school.

DS11: Because that way we don't have to go to, ummmm, what's it called? Oh, yeah, public school. Ummm, I like it because, ummm, I can get up when I want to. Uhhhh . . . we learn a lot more than they do in public school. Ummm, I can, ummm, learn at my own pace. I'm in 5th grade because, ummmmm, because I started out in public, ummmm, school and, ummmm, because my birthday was after the cutoff. But, ummmm, I'm doing mostly all 6th grade, ummmm, work. And, uhhhh, when I finish all my work for the, ummm, day, I can play, ummmm, with my Wii. And I can, ummmm, play with the dog. And I can, ummmmm, do all, ummm, sorts of things. Uhhhh, I also, ummmm, like it because it, ummm, gives me lots of time to, ummmm, work on, uhhh, magic tricks. Uhhhh, do you want to, ummmm, see a magic trick?

(The boy is absolutely brilliant, but one would never guess him to be so because he's too busy ummming and uhhhing! Drives me nuts!)

DS6: Because Mommy doesn't want to get out of bed at 6:30 and feed me cereal. It's less work for her to teach me herself. (I actually heard her tell a total stranger that this morning!):eek:

[ELaurie]

Mommy, I learned to breathe like Darth Vader (demonstrates). Now all I need is a Darth Vader suit - ;like this (describes) with tiny little eye holes so I can see out of them :cool:

Later, at breakfast, "Daddy, if God gave us life, and before we we're alive, we didn't have a life, then how did He know we wanted to be alive - we couldn't want anything because we weren't even alive!"

I never know what will come out of his mouth :D

Edited: Oops - that doesn't really answer your question, does it?

[Scarlett]

Scarlett to ds8 just now, 'Ds do you like spelling?'

Ds: "'Oh, its ok. Its not like I love it, but its ok. Its not like I hate (lots of gestures and facial expressions) it ,but I don't love it. I do hate music though.'


And yes, I've been advised of many things by ds while I'm in the shower.

[Virginia Dawn]

Here are my kids answers to the question "Do you like spelling?"

8yo ds: "Why?"
Me: "Just answer."
8yo: "Not exactly."

14yo: "Why?"
Me: "Just answer."
14yo: turns and walks out of room

3yo: "I like spelling. I was doing my spelling and tracing today, but now I'm done. So I stopped."

I predict that my 17yo would also say "Why?"
My kids are very suspicious of my questions. :)

[melissel]

ROFLOL on the long-winded one. I have one like that. I want to scream, "Get to the point!!"

Here's my sample question. I enter an argument going on between dd15 and dd13. Witness is dd9.

Me: "What on earth is going on in here? Why are you two always screaming? (Blah blah blah)."

DD9: "M took G's makeup, and G hit M."

DD15: "Why can't I ever have anything? You buy her everything. I have to use my own money to buy my makeup, and then she has the NERVE to steal it. I can't believe you are going to let her get away with this. I can't wait until I can move out in 2 years, 5 months, 18 days and 29 seconds."

DD13: "Yes, I took her makeup. I took it because I had the exact same makeup last summer - remember I got it for my birthday? I put it in my green purse, tucked it behind my clothes in the 2nd drawer. I still have the receipt. I marked it with invisible ink because I knew she would probably steal it. Well, the very next day it mysteriously disappeared, like everything else I own does. I've been looking for it ever since, and now that I've found it, I just need to check it to see if it's mine, but I already know it is. When my $10 went missing last April, G didn't know that I had taken pictures of each and every bill, so I had record of the serial numbers. I caught her red-handed. I can't believe you aren't going to do anything to her!"


(Meanwhile, dd9 has drawn a very detailed depiction of the crime scene).

Oh, wait, we have to have a whole 'nuther conversation about the hitting, after we get to the bottom of the mystery of the stolen makeup. I'll spare you that one. It's exhausting.

This made me laugh so hard I cried a little :D

[melissel]

Younger: I never had to ask the question. She no longer hears water running and skips to door while singing a tune. Knock, knock, knock. "Mooomyyy, Daddy called. I heard the phone ring while I was petting Jasmine so I answered it. He asked if he could talk to you so I told him you were in the shower. Then I walked over the the refrigerator and and got a carrot for Jaz. I asked Daddy how was work and he said he has a lot to do still and then the phone made a noise and I said "Daddy? Are you there?" and he said yes. Then Kali started to talk to me so I told her to be quiet and Daddy said he wants you to call him back."

And this would have made me laugh if I didn't live with the same child!

[WTMindy]

My older dd would be something like, "I love homeschooling because I love everything in life and if I need a root canal I'm sure I would love that too. My mom is the best teacher in the whole world and life is wonderful."

My ds would be, "Mommy, did you know that I like homeschooling? Mommy, mommy, mommy, did you know that if we went to public school we would spend 6 hours there each day, which would be 30 hours a week. Mommy, what kinds of animals do they have at the fair? Mommy, what is your favorite vegetable? Mommy, did you know that my mouth says every last thing that pops into my brain?"

[Whisperlily]

"Do you like to play outside?"

DD10: (big smile) "Yes, I love the wind in my hair, and the smell of the rain coming on cloudy days! (dreamlike) Oh, and I like the way the sun comes through the leaves in the summer. (expression sours) And, Mom? I don't like it when J whistles when I'm out there, because it irritates me. And can you tell M to stop bugging me when I'm on the swing? I *never* get a chance to sit on *that* chair because K's hogging it all the time."


DS8: "yeah." (with never a thought that I might have wanted more information than yes or no.)

DS5: "Uh-huh, *giggle* I like to sneak up on J, and he never knows I'm there. And I like to put A's jumprope under all the other toys so she can't find it."
Me: "Honey, that's not a very kind thing to do. You should be nice to your sister, she loves you."
DS5: "Okay. But Mom? I was just jooooking..."


DD (almost 3): "Yes. You're right! I like outside. Can I go out there?"

[Paz]

Well I can describe them by how much they talk to me. My ds laughed yesterday and said, "Why is it that I am telling you to get out of my room because you're always trying to get me to talk and you tell J (his sister) that you can't come to her room because you're too tired to talk to her again."

[SheilaZ]

Do you like spelling?
DS#1: "Yeah." Said in a "Duh!" tone of voice then he goes back to reading.

DS#2: "Not really." I have to write the words too many times." Then he goes back to writing his word list because he has dawdled all morning.

DS#3: "Oh yeah. I like spelling. I like the words. I can write all kinds of words. Do you want me to write a word for you? I will write 'ghost' for you. How do you spell 'ghost' anyway? I know, I know. It starts with a g. Gggeeeeeeee. What comes after 'g'?"

DS#4 "I can spell my name. Hey, look a Lego."

[Citrusheights5]

I overhead my dd talking to her friend about spelling. Her use of many words makes me laugh when I think of what my other dd would have said.

It made wonder how you would describe your kids in how they would answer the same question. I'll give you an example by starting.

The question was, "Do you like spelling?"

Younger 9yodd: "Yes, I like spelling. I don't really like it. Sometimes it's not very hard and then I like it. Well, I really love it."

Older 9yodd: "I hate it."

or

Me: Did anybody call while I was in the shower?

Younger: I never had to ask the question. She no longer hears water running and skips to door while singing a tune. Knock, knock, knock. "Mooomyyy, Daddy called. I heard the phone ring while I was petting Jasmine so I answered it. He asked if he could talk to you so I told him you were in the shower. Then I walked over the the refrigerator and and got a carrot for Jaz. I asked Daddy how was work and he said he has a lot to do still and then the phone made a noise and I said "Daddy? Are you there?" and he said yes. Then Kali started to talk to me so I told her to be quiet and Daddy said he wants you to call him back."

Older: "Yes. Daddy."

Will you describe your kids' conversations?



What exactly is my 11 yo doing at your house?????? Ugh.. I so hoped she would have outgrown this by now!!!

Lee

[dragons in the flower bed]

-- with the seven-year-old --

ME: Hey, Verdi, do you like spelling?

Verdi looks at me from across the house. I begin counting seconds silently. I hit thirty, then say,

ME: Hey, Verdi, do you like spelling?

Verdi gets up and walks so slowly from the dining room to me that I wonder if he's coming here or browsing the shelves. Then he looks at me with wide eyes. Then he looks at the computer screen and I see his eyes tracking starting at the top left hand side with The Well-Trained Mind. I put myself between him and the screen and say,

ME: Hey Verdi, do you like spelling?

He turns back to me again, still wide-eyed, and makes one big slow nod with as much severity as you might expect a kid to answer, "Do you want to live?"

--with the 5yo --

ME: Hey Bear, do you like spelling?
BEAR: I'm hungry.
ME: Do you like spelling?
BEAR: No.
ME: Why not?
BEAR: Because I get too tired writing words with four or five letters or six letters or seven letters or eight letters.
ME: Oh.
BEAR: Or nine letters.
ME: Don't throw that!

[Daisy]

Me: Do you like spelling?

Buttercup: (nothing)

Me: Hey, Buttercup! Do you like spelling?

Buttercup: (finally pulling half of her face out of the book she is reading. Still trying to keep her eyes on the written page). "Huh?"

Me: DO. YOU. LIKE. SPELLING?

Buttercup: Yeh, sure, Mom. (annoyed sound) I'm trying to read.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++
Me: Snap Dragon, do you like spelling?

Snap Dragon: What's spelling?

Me: When you tell Mom what letters make up a word.

Snap Dragon: You mean like when you and Dad spell ice cream and you think I don't know what that means?

Me: Kinda. Do you like it?

Snap Dragon: I guess. I don't have to do it now, right? (never wants to do school work now).

[Plaid Dad]

I'm sorry. I can't answer your question because my dd is talking my ear off. :rolleyes:

[TXMomof4]

DS6: Because Mommy doesn't want to get out of bed at 6:30 and feed me cereal. It's less work for her to teach me herself. (I actually heard her tell a total stranger that this morning!):eek:

ROFL! That is what my kids would say.
Actually, it would be,
"Mommy can't function in the morning until she's had at least 4 cups of coffee." Can't imagine where she heard that! :rolleyes:

[Karin]

Me: Did anybody call while I was in the shower?

Younger: I never had to ask the question. She no longer hears water running and skips to door while singing a tune. Knock, knock, knock. "Mooomyyy, Daddy called. I heard the phone ring while I was petting Jasmine so I answered it. He asked if he could talk to you so I told him you were in the shower. Then I walked over the the refrigerator and and got a carrot for Jaz. I asked Daddy how was work and he said he has a lot to do still and then the phone made a noise and I said "Daddy? Are you there?" and he said yes. Then Kali started to talk to me so I told her to be quiet and Daddy said he wants you to call him back."

Older: "Yes. Daddy."



Yes, well, you've almost described the personalities of my dh and me, although I am more focused than your younger! I've learned to get to the point when talking with dh, lol.

As for my kids, yes, I could, but not as beautifully as this as none are of as few words as my dh.