I hope that I can be a little like the father in this story: http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm
Kids are smart if we let them be. If my kid ever asks me for the “wood tape” or any other nonsensical item, I hope to have the patience to go along with their plan, no matter how outlandish is seems.
In my line of work, I don’t really get to use the word “no” and that is a great thing. When confronted with a challenge, the answer should never be “no”. I hope to respond with “what are we really trying to do?” or “how else can we accomplish this?”
Kids can seriously teach us a few things about doing the impossible or looking at things in a different way.
Kids are not asses. It is not possible. So at what age do we become eligible in ass-ness?
Drew still calls it a "turning signal". I love that, and somehow I don't feel the need to make him say turn signal. It is to signal turning, after all. With my noun lack, I have been known to call a calculator an "adder upper thingy." Have you read The Help? The maid tells her charge everyday: You is kind. You is sweet. You is smart. You is important." Now that's valuable to a child.
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