Joshua's thinking

I love a six year old's mind! Here are some examples of the reasoning skills of a six year old boy:

Joshua "Grandpa's are always older than Grandmas"

Me "Most of the time, but not always."

J "But Grandpa T is older than Grandma T and Grandpa B is older than Grandma B...and your grandpa was older than Mammie."

Me "yes, but I am older than your dad so when we are a grandma and grandpa, I will still be older than him."

Joshua, thinking very hard about how to solve this issue says, "well, maybe you could miss a few birthdays, then he will be older."

I think he may be onto something really big!

Joshua saw Ice Age for the first time the other day. He wanted to know what was the name of the large elephant-like animal. It was not in his animal dictionary that is about 500 pages thick (I broke my toe on it last week...literally). Anyway, he found the elephant section of his dictionary but there was no Wolly Mammoth to be found. I told him that they lived a long long time ago and were now extinct. He said, "I bet when you were a kid your dictionary would have had a wolly mammoth in it."

Mammie is his great-grandmother. She is 90 years old and his reference point for "old". He asked me this morning if there were dinosaur bones under her house.

Joshua had to move his Behavior Bear to the yellow box at school the other day for talking in the hallway. I asked him what happened and he said he forgot that rule. Not being satisfied with the "I forgot" excuse I pushed him further and said, "Aren't the rules hanging on the wall in your room?" He says, "yes, but my teacher has not taught me how to read so it just looks like a bunch of letters up there. I think by the end of the year I will know what they say." Typically, Joshua would have been devasted at being reprimanded by a teacher but he did not seemed phased talking with me so I inquired about that as well. He responded, "I just don't want my bear in the black box...that means you have to go to the principals office!"