The cheek of it! My daughter knows how to write a list! I mean, she has list writing genes!
Since then - of course, wouldn't you? - I've been secretly turning her into a proficient list writer. Shopping list needs jotting down? Get O to do it. Gift lists for Christmas need compiling? Get O to do them. Never again will a teacher say that a child of mine does not know how to write a list!
However, I now think I may have been taking things a little too far.
I came downstairs, bleary eyed, yesterday morning to find this stuck to the mantlepiece:
She had been inspired by one of her favourite TV programmes on CBBC at the moment, Gimme A Break, a programme in which the children draw up the family rules....
- No ballet
- No walks
- No veg
- No accents of any language
- No moaning
She explained to her querying parent, that 'No ballet' meant no ballet by anyone in the house other than her. I don't think we meet her high standards.
'No accents of any language' is apparently for me and C who enjoy conversing with each other in whatever amusing and entertaining alternative accents we can think of. C is going through a Jamaican phase and my specialty is Southern Belle. Can't really see what the problem is there.
'No moaning' was one that I approved of, but then she explained that it didn't mean children weren't allowed to moan - it meant that parents were not allowed to moan about the house rules.
just get her to write a list for her teacher - that will show her!!!
ReplyDeletelove the accents comment, K and E get really cross when J and I pretend to talk french to each other, which of course we can't we just use a silly french accent - drives them bonkers!!!
priceless! love her list. i am terrible at accents but still enjoy messing around as do luckily my girls. i wonder what they would put on their list... probably no singing even though i think i am ok at singing they totally disagree.
ReplyDeleteHave a good week.
ginny x
Hysterical, love it!G (my G, not yours, obviously...!)and I have been talking in french accents today also-his son was going crazy, he hated it! how odd.x
ReplyDeleteharrrumph. O makes a list as good as anyone, or better. I love her list! :)
ReplyDeleteAnn
PS Imagining (or is that remembering?) your Southern Belle accent takes me back to Roanoke!