Batman: Hobo?
Me: Yeah, you know--homeless guys with sticks and bindles. It's kind of strange that kids dress up like hobos for Halloween. "Look ma, I'm impoverished!"
(awkward silence)
Me: I think Mo-mo's next word should be hobo.
Batman: So that would make the words she knows....mama, dada, hi, duck and....hobo?
Me: But we'd have to teach it so that she'd say it angrily. So that it would seem like she's calling people hobos. When she doesn't get what she wants she'd yell out, "HOBO!"
(awkward silence as I contemplate how to do this.)
Me: I know! Instead of saying "no", we'll say "hobo" from now on. That way she'll start shaking her head and saying "hobo". But we have to start now. And we have to be consistent.
Batman: .....No.
Me: Don't you mean "hobo"?
Author's note: Humor does not equal reality. You probably shouldn't teach your children to say things just for your own amusement, especially in the wrong context.
Thats like the onion child experiments that I want to run. BTW, John Hodgeman is an expert on hoboes. Have you read anythign by him?
ReplyDeleteI have not read anything by him, I'll have to look him up.
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