toddler math

[rootofnewt]

To address my touched-out-ness, we frequently count to ten or twenty before nursing. It lets me get settled and Ronan enjoys it.

He *can* count to ten, but prefers to repeat after me. If I ask him what comes next, he usually says "TEN! BOOBIES!" Sometimes, though, it's "1, 2, SEVEN!" or last night, "3, FOURTEEN!".

And then he'll count to himself later, nonsensically.

My child, umprompted, counted to eleventeen last night. It comes after twenty, it seems.

*cracks up*

Comments

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Not just man.

I may never count to ten again without adding "boobies!" And I wonder how Ronan will fare in kindergarten or wherever they teach numbers, because the teacher may be a bit taken aback by this addition to the integers.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I'll tell her that he misinterpeted . . . ∞

[dwolfe.livejournal.com]

"My mom has bigger boobies than your mom." is the new "My dad can beat up your dad."

*went to a violent kindergarten*