While at table, finishing our well-deserved afternoon snack of a banana chocolate chip cookie:
Toddler: “Mama, I think I need another cookie.”
Me: “Oh? You can have another if you count to 10 in Latin for me.”
Toddler: thinks for a moment and then shakes head
Me: takes another bite of cookie
Toddler: “I think no.”
Me: “Unus….”
Toddler: “I think I just need to have some of yours.”
Me: poker face
Toddler: somewhat panicked, “I think duo….”
Me: shifts eyes up in confidence
Toddler: pauses
Me: “…tria….”
Toddler: “…quattuor…”
Me: “…quinque….”
Toddler: “…sex, septum, octo, novem, DECEM!!!”
There are many ways to incorporate the language of the universal Church into ones mothering, afterall!
2 comments:
WOW!!!!! We have been learning Latin for 2 years now....my you're good and the banana chocolate chip cookie.....unum, duo,.....
Ebeth
Erica- That is a really neat sharing. I would not necessarily call it manipulation. It was an opportunity- a teachable moment. It amazes me that Thomas can do that at his age,but I suspect that these pre-school years are prime for those kinds of rather informal teaching moments. Thank you for being there for him! With my love and prayers- Mom S.
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