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OutaBreath
Thank you OutaBreath. The relief can be short lived unfortunately. I've just been asked what a contortionist is - where that came from on an Easter Sunday, I have no idea. Can you hear my sigh?
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johnmacnab
on April 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM
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thanks for a lovely vignette. Questions of where we are, of relation between this and that, the connect and disconnect of experience . . . Along with the bliss of relief when the grandchild stops quizzing us oldsters about what we know of life . . ha! 
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OutaBreath
on April 1, 2010 at 8:42 AM
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TAPS
I love it TAPS. That is hilarious. Although I don't know what Mr Sladder would think about it.
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 27, 2010 at 5:34 AM
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Azur
Thanks for that information Azur. It's good to be right now and again. I'll let her know; in fact I'll show her your comment - that should open up yet another world for her.
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johnmacnab
on March 27, 2010 at 5:32 AM
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What a cute sweet post. I love the questions that children ask. I'll never forget when my four-year-old asked after hearing the church choir sing "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder",
"Mom, who is Jacob Sladder?" I could only imagine what he was imagining.
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TAPS.
on March 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM
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You can tell her from me
that you were correct - right now it's dark in Australia and it's where the moon is.
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Azur
on March 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM
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majroj
She's already at the 'I don't like it' stage before even trying it. I'd like to know how women do it.
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 26, 2010 at 9:11 AM
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Well, "cute" will pass.
Then she will enter the next stage: "Brand Discrimination".
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majroj
on March 23, 2010 at 12:48 PM
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majroj
...and cute with it too!
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 23, 2010 at 10:14 AM
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CarolBell
I can just remember driving my own parents crazy with the 'why' questions, and I am not looking forward to it.
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johnmacnab
on March 23, 2010 at 10:13 AM
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sam444
You know what will happen now sam, don't you? Every second sentence I read or TV programme I watch will have something about Portugal in it.
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM
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Ah-w-w-w-w!
posted by
majroj
on March 21, 2010 at 10:07 PM
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Cute
Aren't 4 year olds fun? Wait until they start with the, "Why?" after every answer you give them. In the end it gets really frustrating.
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CarolBell
on March 21, 2010 at 9:31 AM
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I loved the end, I wish she were close enough to walk! The stories we would get! What an odd dream, but who knows what may come of it! sam
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sam444
on March 20, 2010 at 6:20 PM
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Re: Ohmigod! The questions have begun...
The scary part is that when I was learning, and teaching my kids, there was no such thing as dark matter, and the solar system had been the same for yonks - I will have to learn all over again.
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johnmacnab
on March 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM
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Ohmigod! The questions have begun...
Now you'll learn some stuff.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 20, 2010 at 7:08 AM
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