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School is much more fun when you are loud.

Dude - can you go back in time and tell that to my 9 year old self?

I love this definition of a frenemy! Much better than the love/hate frenemies/rivals pervasive in most of the secondary institutions with which I am familiar.

I had a laugh at DS3 and DH last night. DS had requested a pair of socks for bed, and DH was goofily trying to put them on DS' hands instead. After DH had tested out DS' receptiveness to wearing socks on his hands in many scenarios (in space as added insulation inside a space suit, in a parallel world where socks are called mittens, etc), DS curtly replied: "Daddy, stop your nonsense talk." DH burst out laughing and said to me, "He's obviously your son!"

I agree.

I'm not even sure she knew it was already a word with a different meaning. Language is considered to be a favorite play toy in our household, where inside jokes, intentional malaprops, and invented slang are commonplace, so this might be another example of the latter.

In the same conversation, to the surprise of no one, she announced that her and Frenemy were inventing their own language, which so far consists of (unintelligble) and (no idea, really). She's been playing this particular game with every friend she's had since she was at least 5.

Dude-- this is my daughter's test of potential friends and romantic partners to this day-- and she evaluates their worth as friends by how well (and enthusiastically) they can participate.

She loves wordplay. Happily, college is proving to her that a lot of other smart people enjoy it as much as she does, and it tends to be the mark of quirky people with a robust sense of humor.

Dude, I love that she's coming out of her shell. I am hoping for this for our daughter (5). She's an observer and a bit of a hider. She'd rather take it all in than participate much of the time.

Your 3y.o. runs in the room and says, "I just heard about a job where you can study all kind of subjects, like anything you want all the time! What is that called? I want to do that when I'm an adult!"

I'm thinking that's called, "You."

*This thread make me laugh to tears everytime. These stories are hilarious.

Your DD6 knows that "You promised!" won't work (because you didn't promise), so she tries "You gave every expectation!"

when your 6yo doing homework involving patterns, and he came up with a pattern of

AAA B AA BB A BBB

I told him it's not a pattern. He said it is because A's pattern is decreasing by one while B's pattern is increasing by one.