Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Teachable Moments

I'm late in starting, but I'd really like to keep a record of the ridiculous things fathers are forced to say in trying to teach a two year old. Some samples in recent memory, not surprisingly all revolving around the proper use of tools:

"Please take your drill out of my ear."
"No, please don't saw Papa's face."

and just today...

"No! No! No! We don't hammer the cucumbers!"

2 comments:

zack said...

I love that the teachable moments often begin with "we don't....:

nateshorb said...

Exactly, Zack...it's either that or referring to myself in the third person...

That's part of what makes these statements so ridiculously funny and absurd...part of what makes me feel so ridiculously old...