Out of the blue, in the car on the way home this afternoon.
Tim: Mom?
Me: What?
Tim: Did you know that Humpty Dumpty is DEAD?!
Me: trying not to burst out laughing What?
Tim: Yeah, he's dead. matter of factly Haven't you heard that saying?
Me: What saying is that? It's getting harder not to laugh out loud
Tim: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Me: All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Tim: Yeah, that's the one.
It suddenly struck me that I have to be the worst mother on the face of the Earth. How in the world did my kid get to be almost 11 years old and not know the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme? Surely I taught it to him some time ago, like 9 YEARS ago?!
He was serious folks. I think he just learned this Nursery Rhyme and thought he was passing on some important information that I didn't already know.
I AM the worst mother. Now, I'm wondering what else I neglected to teach my children that should have been a given during their childhoods.
Out of the Mouth of Babes
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
2 comments:
This is so funny. Sometime stuffs that our kids tell us is really funny. That's why I love talking to children, something like this might happen and it is fun to listen. Happy parenting
Shawn,
Maybe its easier blaming yourself for failing to tell him that Humpty Dumpty was a nursery rhyme than to admit, your son is a little slow on the uptake... lol. Just chalk it up to kids process information in their own sweet time... some times it just takes longer than others ;)
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