Recent Vignettes

In the car:
a: What do you do daddy?
D: I am a scientist!
M: And daddy is a teacher too!
a: WOW Daddy, you are both, you're super good!

At the house:
a: Mom, dinosaure bit me!
M: Well he must go on time out now, because we don't bite in our house!
a brings the dinosaure to our time out spot, and says: 'Dino, we don't bite in our house, you are on time out, 2 minutes' (all of this with perfectly mimicking her mom's tone when she puts her on time out)!

At the restaurant:
D: hey pingulinho, que voce quer beber?
a: Chocolate milk daddy!
M: Comment on demande dans notre famille???
a: Chocolate milk, please daddy!!

Conclusion: we have established that toddlers can implement strategies when consistently exposed to them >1 million times...

'Building confidence' might need to be revisited...

a: Mommy, one kid today at school got poop on her finger!
M: Oh really, so she cleaned her hands with a teacher right?
a: Yeah!
M: Oh good, it can happen you know, anyone can end up with poop on their hands...
a: No no mommy, not me, because I am super good!

Amélie's musical (mis)education

I was thinking today that, although it is sure to introduce some confusions in her brain here and there, our little Amélie is overall quite lucky to be exposed to quite a wide variety of music styles, including:

Brazilian kids songs:



Francophone drinking songs:



American folk songs through her nursery school (abiyoyo is currently her favorite):



She also likes classics such as 'we are the world':



Hard life I am telling you!

Practice, Practice, Practice!

We have been having a lot of conversations with Amélie about how when we try something, sometimes we need to practice, practice, and practice some more before we can do that something well.

This strategy is working super well, case and point:
M: WOW Amélie, you ate all of the edamame, great job!
a: Yeah, I practiced a lot!

We will definitely use this approach to learning other things too, just like Po Bronson advises!