5 year old wisdom

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:14 pm

It's been rather windy today, and the winter chill is already starting to rear it's ugly head here in the North Country...yuck! Despite this, I made the kids go out, just because. About 30 minutes after I sent them out, Finbar comes in the back door. I asked him why he was in and he said:

"I can't stay out there! That wind is DIABOLICAL!!"

Where he got that word, I will probably never know. But there you have it, North Country wind is diabolical, so sayeth my 5 year old son.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:44 pm

Kids say the darndest things! I love it. We had some wind here last night that wasn't quite diabolical--maybe just around the edges.

Susan

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:46 pm

Very good. I like that kid.

He may have gotten it from a subversive relative. For example, when my 6 yo nephew was disgruntled with his dad, and was viewing it from a cartoon-like perspective, I suggested he could refer to his PhD father as the "Diabolical Dr. Dad."

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 5:16 pm

emmline wrote: I suggested he could refer to his PhD father as the "Diabolical Dr. Dad."

I like that one. The alliteration-ness really makes it.

The word diabolical just has the nice edge to it. Like in reference to the wind. He could have said it was windy, or even that it was a mighty wind. But diabolical just gives it that extra oomph that it needed. Even when it's only around the edges

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 5:48 pm

It was cute enough to go on the Art Linklettuce show, for sure. You may want to disabuse him of the notion that he is anywhere near the "North" though.

djm

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:04 pm

djm wrote: You may want to disabuse him of the notion that he is anywhere near the "North" though.

djm

Hey, we're practically Canadians up here in the Frozen Tundra!

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:30 pm

What's the kid saying about the market?

missy · Post by **missy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:56 am

Izz, when my oldest was a toddler and "learning" body parts, we did the normal "eyes, nose, arm", but we also add "clavicle" to the list.

It was a riot to have this little 1 1/2 year old saying and pointing "clavicle".

I won't discuss the time he brought up the term "hermaphrodite" to his first grade teacher..........

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:52 pm

Izz, my granddaughter, who's five never ceases to amaze me with the stuff she's picked up.. A couple of days ago, she was looking at a picture of Lincoln on one of her mom's books.

"Wow, look at the black eye on that guy" she says.

"No, that's his big eyebrow, if you look closer at the picture you can see his eye under it. That's Abraham Lincoln, a president a long time ago" I said.

"He was our 16th president, but you know George Washington was the first one."

this from a five year old?

Remember the old saying..Little pitchers have big ears.

fyffer · Post by **fyffer** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:45 am

He probably got his $5 word from the Cartoon Network, or the like. All the evil scientists and their henchmen are diabolical.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:18 am

For a minute I thought this was a thread where you'd dug up one of my wise posts from five years ago.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:37 pm

That would make you 10.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:53 pm

It depends on how you interpret the thread title.

Is it "Wisdom that is five years old" or "Wisdom spoken by a five year old".

We now know of course.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:59 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:Is it "Wisdom that is five years old" ...

There's no such thing as five year old wisdom. True wisdom is ageless.

Munk · Post by **Munk** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:01 pm

There's no such thing as five year old wisdom. True wisdom is ageless.

Last week, my partner set about making pancakes, and my five-year-old son decided to help by writing out the recipe for her. He emerged a few minutes later with a sheet of notebook paper in hand, on which were scrawled some black wiggly lines. He carefully explained to her what each one was .... "butter," "egg," and probably something about root beer in there. So she hung his "recipe" up on the cabinet, the way she hangs real ones, and pretended to go by it to make the batter.

I got home from work shortly thereafter, and found them in the kitchen, stirring batter. My partner explained about the paper hanging up, so I decided to play along. "Ah, a recipe for pancakes!" I said to my son. "What does it say? Can you read it to me?"

He looked at me like I'd sprouted two extra heads and said, "It's just a bunch of lines."

Pardon me!