4yo Q & A
Degree of Difficulty: Easy
Q: Mom, is this a berry?
A: No, that’s rabbit poop. Please put it back on the ground.
Degree of Difficulty: Medium
Q: Mom, why couldn’t the old man get up in the morning?
A: Because if you bump your head, you need more sleep.
(Not a word about how drunk he must’ve been to bump his head AFTER he went to bed. Wow, I don’t know anyone who got so drunk they fell and got a concussion. Oh, wait, yes I do. Ah, college. Good times. And no, it wasn’t me. You know who you are if you’re reading.)
Degree of Difficulty: Hard
Q: Mom, what is ‘killed’?
A: Um, where did you hear that? Oh, the Disney movie we watched yesterday? (Grrr.) It means your body gets hurt so badly that it can’t get up.
(Hmm, maybe the old man wasn’t just sleeping it off.)
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I always wonder about that poor old man who bumped his head. Is it “he bumped his head, and he won’t be up in the morning” or “won’t be up ’til the morning”? I’ll let G_ ask that when get gets to that phase.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I know it as “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. Went to bed, bumped his head and couldn’t get up in the morning.
But the first two parts of the second sentence probably should be reversed. It’s likely I’m remembering them wrong.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
same here… “went to bed, bumped his head”
I’m thinking he bumped his head AS he was getting into bed, which is why he couldn’t get up in the morning (headache!).
March 27th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Alternately, he could have gone to bed, fallen out and bumped his head, and been sleeping off his hangover and a concussion. Ah, children’s nursery rhymes. So violent and weird.