Comments on: That’s Pretty Old

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:59:48 +0000

My 5 year old son: Mum, how old am I? Me: You're five. 5YO: No, I'm four. Me: No, you're five - you just turned five a few weeks ago 5YO: No, I'm ..... ten! Me: Then how old is dad? 5YO: He's one. Me (silently) Well, that explains a few things then...

By: thepineapplehead

thepineapplehead — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:38:32 +0000

This made me smile. Today, on the way back from an outing with my sister’s children she looks after (as a nanny), I was chatting to an animated three-year-old who was obsessed by the number “30″. Thirty miles, thirty pounds, thirty feet tall.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:36:35 +0000

On Alberts comment, if I’m ever asked for a figure and haven’t a clue my “plucked random” is always 12, no multiples or factors of ten. Always 12. As an aside I have a vivid memory of myself and friends in the very early seventies (so I was about 5 or 6 years old) always using dollars as our currency, no suprise as the UK was moving from £sd to decimal currency at the time.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:55:45 +0000

I have a niece who is not twenty one, but twenteen. So she says.

By: Albert

Albert — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:12:15 +0000

Hello I’m 26 years olds and when I need to say a random number I allways use 27 or multiples (270 2700 27000 270000 …) depending on the scale of the problem :)

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:44:49 +0000

Sherri, Asbjørn is right. If you get your daughter a brother, he will happily reconfigure her…

By: Asbjørn Ulsberg

Asbjørn Ulsberg — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:22:11 +0000

Sounds like your daughter is stuck in an endless loop, there, Sherri. Sure she’s properly configured? ;-)

By: Sherri Johnson

Sherri Johnson — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:56:12 +0000

That brought a smile to my face. My almost-3-year-old daughter counts well up to 13….at which point, she gets stuck bouncing back and forth between 13 and 18.

“11, 12, 13, 18, 13, 18, 13, 18…”

By: Scott Minor

Scott Minor — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:59:30 +0000

My three-year-old used to refer to the day before today as “lasterday.” :)

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:49:20 +0000

My oldest daughter applied the number 20 to many things for awhile (20 dollars, 20 minutes, 20 this, 20 that). It’s fascinating to see how the thought processes of little kids develop.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:51:45 +0000

Now let’s not go forgetting ‘eleventy squillion’, which comes right after you’ve run through the twenties & thirties a couple of times (or so my four year old tells me).

By: Michael McCorry

Michael McCorry — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:55:32 +0000

Very cute. How old is “she”?

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:35:49 +0000

My daughter has started saying made-up prices out loud while shopping. I’ll be pushing her in the trolley and she’ll pick up a toothbrush or something, looks at the label and says “sixty pounds, too expensive!” and puts it back, kids say the weirdest things and for some reason its always sixty pounds (GBP) as well.

By: Anne-Sophie

Anne-Sophie — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:55:50 +0000

:-)