Oh the difficulties of being a brunette trying to raise a blonde. It really is hard work. My dear sweet little 6 year old blond how I love you and your sweet sincerety. You are my jewel. You are the only child who more often then not will actually listen to your not so patient mommy and most often does what I ask without much fuss. But despite your caring way, your sensitive heart, we have focusing issues.
(Now, yes, she is 6 I KNOW...but really, does everything HAVE to go in one ear and out the other?)
So one issue we face is Rhyming. Now in my old, wise, 31 year old mind this should be fairly simple. However, Emma gets confused with rhyming words and words that start with the same letter for example.
In Emma's world Jar rhymes with Jacket.
In my world Jar rhymes with Car.
Emma can rhyme: Pen, Pencil
I can rhyme: Bat, Hat
Come over to my world Emma-Jean!
So even though we can spend a lengthy amount of time rhyming and singing rhymes and playing rhyming games, she'll get it! And less then 2 minutes later, she's back to her world, and Im still in mine.
"I got it mom! Table rhymes with Top, right?!"
*sigh* I suppose we can stay in our own worlds, because in Emma's world despite the rhyming difficulties she seems to hold a natural talent for math. If she were to come into my world that natural talent would quickly diminish. So I guess despite the color of our hair roots, despite the fact that my little girl will more likely have natural blonde hair forever, if she can stick with the math maybe she won't fall into the "dumb blonde" mold. However, we'll keep practicing on that rhyming!
And in the background brennon's yelling "fountain, mountain"
3 comments:
wow brennon ... you are impressive ... :)
and emma ... it's ok ... i love blonde hair :) tell your mom that dr. suess probably wasn't a rhyming pro at 6 either!
AND tell her that she should dye her hair because blondes have more fun.
Hate to disillusion you about the blonde thing, but her dad was almost white at age 6 and look at him now!
Grandma
HAHA this is soo cute :)
tina
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