(Benjamin comes out in jeans on a day where the high is over 80 degrees)
Me: Benjamin, it’s too hot for jeans, go put shorts on.
Benjamin: No!
Me: Yes! It’s too hot for jeans! You need shorts!
Benjamin: No!
Me: (thinking: I am NOT washing those jeans AND shorts when he realizes how hot it is outside later and wants to change!) Yes! Why do you want to wear pants when it is so hot outside?
Benjamin: Shorts make me hot!
Me: No, shorts are cooler than pants! There’s less material! You’re wearing less! The less you wear, the cooler you are!
Benjamin: No! Shorts make me hot!
Me: No, sweetheart, shorts do not make you hot! Why do you say this?
Benjamin: I am always hot in shorts!
(Pause)
Me: Oooooooooooh. Honey, you are always hot in shorts because I always make you wear shorts when it’s hot out! It is the weather that makes you hot! You’d be even HOTTER in pants! Now GO PUT SHORTS ON!
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Have you gotten inside the head of a three-year-old lately? Had a rare moment when you actually understood their logic? You just can’t help but smile when it all clicks and you realize the reason behind the insanity.
LOL!! This conversation could totally have happened in my house. Litlle minds make so much sense when we stop to figure them out!:)
Ha! This is absolutely a conversation I would have with my just-turned-4-year old! Funny!
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Yup, sounds like a conversation with Sasha.
Although, he says shorts make him itchy.
He has a pretty bad grass allergy so if he is wearing shorts when he plays in the lawn, the poor kid is covered in welts anywhere his legs were bare.
I tried to tell him it wasn’t the shorts, it was the grass. Grass makes him itchy. That’s why Mommy says stop sitting in the lawn (we have other places).
He really thinks it’s the shorts.
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Ha ha! I love it! Thanks for bringing a smile to my day!
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That’s so precious. I only have a 4 1/2 month old but look forward to those conversations some day. Thanks for making me laugh! Shannon
Oh, and I’m from IN too and it is HOT today. He’s right!
Ah, the beautiful world of causation vs. correlation [smile]. Unfortunately, I think even I get mixed up as to how those relate to each other from time to time (not the shorts/heat thing, but the cause/correlation thing [smile]).
~Luke
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