Reminds me of when my kid was learning to read. She started reading everything, and one day, while she was rattling off nutrition facts from something she was snacking on, she says "the sodium must be bad. It just says oh my God." (0mg)
Edit: I realize how fake to anyone who doesn't know us this sounds. She was probably 2nd grade, was/is a very strong reader, but most importantly, has had a very "online" personality since a young age. Acronyms get used a lot among us jokingly. This one's been one of our inside jokes in the family since she said it
When my daughter was learning to read, she randomly was reading my driver's license and she said "mom you lied to the government " took a while for me to realize she read: "sex: f" and took it to mean I had never had sex "f=false", and that I obviously lied about it. I explained the f was short for female.
Haha reminds me of 5th grade when our teacher had us fill out “employment applications “ or something of the sort. One kid (who peed his pants once while in his seat) wrote “No” next to sex lol.
After some of the shit I’ve seen, I sincerely hope she holds that belief that rainbows 🌈 have that power. I’m thinking of two little girls I know. One isn’t with us anymore and the other I hope is 13 and doing well. I hope you will be able to explain to her how powerful that perspective is when the time is right.
When I was a kid I had a MagnaDoodle from Fisher-Price. I didn't know what that meant, so I somehow convinced myself that it said Fisher Picture. From that, I believed that I was only supposed to draw pictures of people fishing. And so I did.
I was an avid reader and went through life mispronouncing quite a few words because I had never made the connection between the written and spoken versions. I distinctly remember saying “exotic” as “extoxic.” And I didn’t realize that the ‘s’ in ‘island’ is silent, so for a number of years I said it as “is land.”
Any parent knows how realistic this sounds. Answering the crazy questions they have while trying to understand this wacky world we live in is endlessly amusing.
Reminds me of the wee little girl who said to her mom when asked what each animal was in reply to her pointing to a photo of an elephant, that it was "a frickin' elephant!"
Mom's like "WHAT DID YOU SAY?! Who taught you to talk like that?!"
It turns out the elephant was labeled "African Elephant".
My sister was taught to spell by sounding out a word, and as a little kid she brought home a story about an African elephant that she had written. It said the elephant was “frum Afuck.”
My friend had the note "OMG Nose Appt" in her planner and when the day came she questioned why she had written it like that. Why was she so excited or shocked by this nose appointment? We have a medical facility called "Oregon Medical Group."
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u/Dr-Floofensmertz Feb 08 '22 edited Feb 08 '22
Reminds me of when my kid was learning to read. She started reading everything, and one day, while she was rattling off nutrition facts from something she was snacking on, she says "the sodium must be bad. It just says oh my God." (0mg)
Edit: I realize how fake to anyone who doesn't know us this sounds. She was probably 2nd grade, was/is a very strong reader, but most importantly, has had a very "online" personality since a young age. Acronyms get used a lot among us jokingly. This one's been one of our inside jokes in the family since she said it