"Nicholas?""I'm making a clock mom."
"Oh."
"What comes after 12?"
"Um, 1."
(scoffing) "No, it doesn't."
"Yes, on a clock it does. (drawing a picture) See here is 6: wake up time; 7: school time; 8: breakfast time; 9: school work time; 10: play time; 11: clean up time; 12: lunchtime; 1: nap time; 2: play time; 3: outside time; 4: daddy and I pick you up time; 5: dinner time; 6: clean up and bath time; 7: Batman time; 8: bed time; 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 sleep time. And then it starts again."
"But what comes after 12 mom?"
Breezing through the kitchen comes dad: "Well, actually Susan, in military time it is 13..."
"See mom!"
"Really? You really want your children to be mocked by their classmates?"
"What?
(Mock pre-schooler voice) "Well, ACTUALLY, in the military it's Fifteen-hundred right now, which is play outside time..."
"What? What's wrong with that?"
"Mom! What.Comes.After.12?"
"1."
"NO, it doesn't!"
"Well, that's because you put all your numbers in a quarter of the clock. You have to spread them around, and you'll see that 1 comes after 12." (pointing to the to-scale picture)
"Mom. Just tell me what comes after 12."
"13, Nicholas. 13 Comes after 12."
4 comments:
Gotta love that boy's persistence when he thinks he knows the answer but wants confirmation.
Somehow I think peer pressure will not affect the child either. He will mock them back, I think.
Who's on First? Did Nicholas just out-logic you?
I still have to use my fingers to calculate military time.
Hahaha! Whose team are you on, Patric?!!
We use military time at work and I still have to use my fingers too!
So funny that he's "already smarter than" you. What in the world are you going to do when he's a teenager?!
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