I thought we could have a good laugh by adding fun stories to this thread. Here's mine:

You know you have a 2e child when they have a mime visit the classroom who assigns each child to "become" an object ("be a tree" so the child stands and "whooshes" his arms back and forth like a tree blowing in the wind) and your child is assigned to "be a cork" but becomes a "quark" instead...as in a neutron particle. And he's then proud because "nobody could guess what I was, Mom!"
missing the point of the activity entirely!

I don't know whether to laugh or *sigh*

Age-Gap parenting a 2e 12-year-old and an 8-month-old