So last week AJ managed to reason himself out of a pickle and completely stupify both his teacher and his parents. In his preschool class the children are asked not to use toys as weapons- pretend "bang bang you are dead" and really whacking a kid with a toy so it is a weapon. I did notice that while we don't watch particularly violent shows at home he has been playing a lots of "guns" and "you're dead" these days. Figuring it was inevitable, I decided not to sweat it. I mean, he also thought he could fly like superman so we had to address that one before it resulted in serious injuries.
So, I couldn't help but laugh as the teacher recounted this tale last week and began with "AJ is so smart". AJ was nicely building with legos at the table one day and his teacher heard him saying "pow pow" and waving his long stack of legos at another student. She asked him if he built a gun and he said " oh no, I built a telescope". So she let it slide. The next day the same thing happens and AJ insists that he built a telescope. Funny how the telescope was long and had a part you grip with your hand - about what a lego gun would look like if it were built with the skill of a 3.5 year old. But AJ just insisted it was a telescope. While his teacher saw the humor and glimpses of great, though manipulative, intellegence in his approach, she did remind him that a telescope is used to look at the stars in the sky and most likely does not make a "pow pow" sound.
Once I got done laughing at this, I realized just how clever the little stinker is that he found a way to work the system already.
2 comments:
I 'm gonna blame Pete and Uncle Matt for this and ignore the fact I bought him a marshmallow shooter for Christmas. That's my plan anyway!
i would encourage seeing improved fib telling as a sign of growing intelligence.
marshmallow shooters are known to drive children to extreme violence. Manson had a marshmallow shooter.
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