Aaron was doing his homework tonight and came across a word he didn't know. When he asked me to define it, I told him to go look it up in the dictionary.
Grumbling, he said, "YOU never had to use the dictionary! Why do I have to go look it up?"
I responded that "Oh, yes I did! You can even call Grandma and ask her." Which he did.
After confirming that I was indeed sent back to the dictionary many, many times, he went and retrieved the book.
After a minute or so, he came back to me- dictionary in hand and informed me that,"I can't use this book. It's copy right date is 1990. That is SO old! It's outdated."
I took a moment to decide whether or not I was going to "smack him" for insinuating that I'm old because I lived in the '90's OR if I was going to applaud his tenacious efforts to avoid his homework OR if I wanted to laugh at his clever, albeit wrong, assumption that dictionaries ever "expire."
I finally responded with this, "Dictionaries, like mothers, are never outdated. Now get to work."
1 comment:
So cute!!! I love it!
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