From the Mouth of Children - Awareness

Kids say some of the coolest and most hilarious things. Joshua has often kept things light in our house. So want to share some things with you for a couple reasons. First, I hope they lighten your day and second because I want to remember. So here is the first of what I hope to be a lot of "From the Mouth of Children" blogs.

We have been teachings Joshua boundaries. An example of what this often looks like goes something like this:

Joshua: "AHHHHHH" (yelling at the top of his lungs)

Parent: "Joshua, we don't yell inside, only outside" (spoken in a gentle, corrective, serious manner)

Joshua: "Only outside. Ok." (in a serious two year old voice)

Joshua: "What is this mama?" (as he is grabbing a breakable item)

Parent: "Joshua, we don't grab that item, we only look at it" (spoken in a gentle corrective, serious manner)

Joshua: "Only look. Ok." (in a serious two year old voice)

So we were eating supper the other day when we were with my family. Joshua enjoys eating ketchup so he grabbed the ketchup bottle and started to lick the top of the lid. So the correction went as follows.

Elissa: "Joshua, we don't lick the top of the bottle." (spoken in a gentle, corrective, serious manner)

Joshua: "Only the bottom!" (Spoken in a serious two year old voice)

Yes, son, we only lick the bottom of the Ketchup bottle :o)