resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
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Tonight in our reading we encountered the word "chaos." I said to the kidlet, "Do you know what 'chaos' means?"

"Yes!" they say happily. "It's a whole bunch of kids all screaming at the same time! And they're all twins and you've told them their birthday is tomorrow! And some of them are doing backflips! And some of them are knocking over lamps! That's chaos!"



edited 2019 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns

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Date: 8/25/05 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] c-regalis.livejournal.com
*snicker* Well, that seems like a perfect definition of chaos to me. *g*

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Date: 8/25/05 01:45 am (UTC)
ext_2233: Writing MamaDeb (Default)
From: [identity profile] mamadeb.livejournal.com
Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Smart kidlet.

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Date: 8/25/05 01:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eliade.livejournal.com
That's about it, all right. *g* That's so cute!

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Date: 8/25/05 01:48 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
There's a pretty wide gap between the kidlet and teenage stages, where answers like that are cute, but turn into, "What, you think I don't know what chaos means? You think I'm stupid, don't you? Why are you all against me? *wails* You just don't understand! " I have two cousins, one in each category. And I still want children *ponders* -j

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Date: 8/25/05 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misspamela.livejournal.com
Ha! That's adorable! "And they're all twins" is my favorite part.

your kidlet

Date: 8/25/05 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kormantic.livejournal.com
is the very best one. Save two of my cousins. (g)

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Date: 8/25/05 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raucousraven.livejournal.com
Now there's one kidlet who will never be at a loss for words. Colour me impressed *g*

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Date: 8/25/05 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bethbethbeth.livejournal.com
She's brilliant! And absolutely correct. *g*

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Date: 8/25/05 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] julad.livejournal.com
Heee. I keep meaning to tell you about a friend of mine whose kidlet wanted to know what a porn shop was. And friend coughs and clears throat and eventually manages to explain that it's a place where grown-ups buy pictures of people with no clothes on.

Kidlet: That doesn't make sense!
Mother: Let me see the book.

... pawn shop. *g*

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Date: 8/25/05 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] celandineb.livejournal.com
Well, that's one of the best definitions of chaos I've ever seen!

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Date: 8/25/05 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imkalena.livejournal.com
Your kid really has the Zen Of Chaos. She'll make a great teenager. :)

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Date: 8/25/05 03:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurelwood.livejournal.com
Between the kidlet, the spouse, and the stuff you overhear, I think you've cornered the market on great quotes.

You know what would be really cool? A calendar that featured 12 different word definitions (with accompanying illustrations!) by your kidlet.

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Date: 8/25/05 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marksykins.livejournal.com
That needs to be in dictionary.com. :D

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Date: 8/25/05 04:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ficklememeer.livejournal.com
I don't really have anything to say except...BLAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's all. ;-)

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Date: 8/25/05 04:07 am (UTC)
celli: a woman and a man holding hands, captioned "i treasure" (Default)
From: [personal profile] celli
*grin*

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Date: 8/25/05 04:41 am (UTC)
northern: "northern" written in gray text across a raven (Default)
From: [personal profile] northern
That's the best definition of "chaos" ever.

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Date: 8/25/05 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nel-ani.livejournal.com
Hahaha! So true.

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Date: 8/25/05 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] firesprite1105.livejournal.com
Both your kidlet and your icon make me grin. :)

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Date: 8/25/05 10:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/
She can do "chaos", why can't she do my easy ones!


*hearts*

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Date: 8/25/05 12:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] reginagiraffe
LOL! Sounds about right to me.

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Date: 8/25/05 12:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] saba1789.livejournal.com
Heh, fabulous explanation!

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Date: 8/25/05 01:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com
AHHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(see, in our n. am. accent, that wouldn't work at all. hee!)

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Date: 8/25/05 03:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] fullygoldy.livejournal.com
I love it! And Res, as long as the kidlet keeps answering questions as completely as she did this one, she's going to sail through school. The boy at my house just learned this past school year that even a yes or no answer expressed as a full sentence earns extra credit. I'm hoping he remembers that as he starts middle school....

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Date: 8/25/05 06:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lattara.livejournal.com
Best. Kid. Ever.

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Date: 8/25/05 06:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] grum
Unfortunately, that depends completely on the school (and/or on who the teacher is)

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Date: 8/25/05 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tealin.livejournal.com
That was adorable. Sounds like you have a budding writer on your hands, too, or at the very least a kidlet with a great imagination. :)

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Date: 8/25/05 09:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brynwulf
Did she hear that somewhere or make it up? My goddess, if she made it up....

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And ICON LOVE! I forgot just what a cutie Garrett is.

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Date: 8/26/05 07:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neery.livejournal.com
I remember something similar from when my nephew was still a kidlet: He asked us what a "frostitute" was, and only after a long and awkward explanation about what prostitution is did we find out that the people in the tv show where just making a pun on the fact that the woman in question sold ice cream. *g*

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Date: 8/26/05 09:56 pm (UTC)

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Date: 9/1/05 03:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com
She is obsessed with twins. But aren't they all.

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Date: 9/1/05 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com
We think she's better than other kids, but of course we don't spread that around.

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Date: 9/1/05 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com
Well, she comes from what might charitably be called a voluble family. She has to babble just to keep up.

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Date: 9/1/05 03:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com
[laughing wildly]

You eventually learn, when you get a baffling question, to say cautiously, "Why do you want to know?"

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Date: 9/1/05 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com
Oh, yes, we are so looking forward to that. She's 6 now and already thinks she knows everything. The spouse sometimes says to her, "You know, you weren't literally born yesterday, but close."

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Date: 9/1/05 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com
One of the reasons that we've kept her in the Montessori School of the Well-Meaning Vague People is to postpone, for as long as we can manage it, the day when she finds herself with one of those teachers who labels any kid smarter than him/her "an attitude problem."

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Date: 9/1/05 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com
Hee! Well, naturally, we think so ...

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Date: 9/1/05 03:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com
She did make that up -- though I'm sure that's the context in which she usually hears the word from us: "Speak up! I can't hear you! It's chaos in here!" (She was reading the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, where there's a cat named Chaos.)

They were adorable, weren't they?

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