Child-centred, not parent-centred examples, but still had to include them:

DS23mo and I met a gentleman from Sri Lanka today, so I showed him where Sri Lanka was relative to us on a map. Fast-forward to a conversation later this evening.

Me: We met a man from Sri Lanka today, didn't we, DS? Sri Lanka is just south of the tip of what country?

DS (*without hesitating for a second*): India!

DH was astonished. That doesn't happen too often.

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He also used the word "panoply" correctly and spontaneously-- "Look Mummy, I have a panoply of trucks on my pyjamas!" And he proceeded to name them. Cement mixers were today's darlings.


What is to give light must endure burning.