Two things involving children.

[elisi]

Happy Birthday quietpoet! Hope your day is everything you could wish for! *hugs*

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Then something I've been meaning to share for a while. This is from one of the Cherub's library books, and keeps cracking me up. Clearly someone thought that it was time to update this particular fable for the iPod generation:

"So who'll fetch the flour?" asked Heidi the Hen.

"Not me," said the dog.

"Nor me," squeaked the mouse.

"Oh I'll fetch it myself," muttered Heidi the Hen, and she nipped to the deli and bought it.

(In her little red car. WHAT HAPPENED TO PLANTING CORN AND HARVESTING IT AND TAKING IT TO THE MILL??? Anyway, then she bakes herself a birthday cake which then runs away, is nearly gobbled up by a sly crocodile as it rows the cake across a lake, and is finally caught and eaten by Heidi the Hen and all her friends... Two fables for the price of one!)

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Also, this afternoon, in my front room. (Miss M is 12, Impish Girl 9)

Miss M (musingly): Why is it always the girls with the most make up who scream the loudest?

Impish Girl (dismissively): It's because the girls with the most make up are the stupidest! (Then, contemptuously) Girls with the most make up like Justin Bieber!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You are clearly raising your children correctly. :)

Molly

[promethia_tenk]

Miss M (musingly): Why is it always the girls with the most make up who scream the loudest?

Heh. That is very true. I suppose a lot of makeup is like visual shouting. The basic message is the same: PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

In her little red car. WHAT HAPPENED TO PLANTING CORN AND HARVESTING IT AND TAKING IT TO THE MILL???

The times they are a changing...

Miss M (musingly): Why is it always the girls with the most make up who scream the loudest?

Impish Girl (dismissively): It's because the girls with the most make up are the stupidest! (Then, contemptuously) Girls with the most make up like Justin Bieber!

Hee!

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

Girls with the most make up like Justin Bieber!

*gigglesnort* Impish Girl is wise beyond her years. *nods*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

(Then, contemptuously) Girls with the most make up like Justin Bieber!

So right - that totally is proof absolute of their stupidity.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

Sensible girls. Thankfully mine (also 12 and 9) have the same attitude to Justine Bieber, though they are more into Primeval than Doctor Who. :)

[adoxerella.livejournal.com]

Oh how your children rock. I applaud the dismissal of too much make-up AND Justin Bieber.

I attribute the modernization of children's fables to the same people who thought that The Chronicles of Narnia needed to be reorganized in chronological order because apparently kids can't understand them otherwise. Funny, I didn't have a problem, did you?

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

::loves impish girl::