funny things your kids do & say

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My 9 yo recent was picking on a boy, and we were talking about why it was wrong later that evening. I was explaining to him that "you need to put yourselve in so&so's shoes" he looked at me and said "mom, I don't understand what you mean"


I then realize, he is thinking to "literally" put this other boy's shoes on, which are way bigger than his.

Oops, I forgot about literal thinking.

Someone mentioned Amelia Bedelia!! We have her books here at home, and my oldest loved them when she was younger. I tried reading them to my son - who is an Aspie. He didn't get it. To him, the book was very much how he thought in real life anyway - so it wasn't nearly as funny. In fact, if I remember right - he was insulted!


Just yesterday I was sitting here talking on the phone to a friend of mine, and we were talking about my son. All of the sudden my son comes into the room, creeps up over next to me and says very quietly and primly "Are you talking about me without my permission?" I laughed because I've never seen him do that - he usually doesn't care what I'm talking about. (and I've asked him about how he feels when I talk to my friend about him and he told me he doesn't care) He ended up laughing in the end, but I have a feeling the rules around here regarding whom I'm allowed to talk to about him are going to change soon.


We were on vacation recently and we were listening to the radio in our truck as we drove along (we were going from California up to Yellowstone National Park). The Beatles were on, and I was talking to my daughter about the band and how there's only two surviving members when all of the sudden my son speaks up and says "Mom, of course there's only two left. They are bugs - they get squashed!" After I finished my hysterics, I explained that the The Beatles are a musical group, and he looks at my with a horrific look on his face and says "What a stupid name for a band, Mom. They named themselves after BUGS. That's dumb. Obviously they'll never make it anywhere. And now there's only two of them. How dumb!"