The Fonz is having a great year in 2nd grade. He’s never been so excited about learning and corners me throughout the day to tell me about the solar system or compound words. Of course I was happy to see how enthused he was about learning, but my happiness began to fade this past week as he’s gained the confidence to start correcting me
when he thinks I’m wrong. Even as I was writing this post, he came in to my room to show me how much money he had saved up, and I told him I was entitled to a certain percentage of his earnings as his dad. He refused to turn any of his money over as he insisted, “I earned this money fair and swear!”
I told him the saying was supposed to be “fair and square,” but he corrected me again and again that the phrase should be “fair and swear,” and I never quite broke through to him. Is this what teachers are teaching kids? To stand up to adults? If so, I don’t like it!
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Optimist Prime is a bit more willing to take correction. His mother corrected a grammatical error he had made, and he answered, “But I don’t make as many grammackeral errors as I used to.” If only his errors were limited to the grammackeral.
Mrs. Good Greatsby worked with him on the correct pronunciation of grammatical, but he still doesn’t quite have it.
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Today I found the following in my search terms:
educlaytion and the good greatsby are training attack bears?
This rumor is only partially true. Yes, we’re training bears but those bears are just as afraid of you as you are of them and will only attack if provoked. Or if commanded by me or Clay.
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Only one day left to submit a caption in the caption contest. Remember that ex-boyfriend who said you’d never be able to submit a caption in a caption contest without him by your side? Now is your chance to prove him wrong!
The Good Greatsby 
ichoosehappynow
November 12, 2011
Fun and easy read that I can totally relate to, except for the bear. My 5 year old often says, “Mom, you are wrong…” He then corrects me with something.
Have a great Saturday.
Cheers,
Louise
Kathryn McCullough
November 12, 2011
How phunny!
Chase McFadden
November 12, 2011
My children began pointing out my shortcomings much earlier than I anticipated. And they show no signs of slowing down.
xmichra
November 12, 2011
Kira is eight (grade three) and this year instead of just correcting us, she has a lovely way of presenting her thoughts in the form of “ACTUALLY, mom, Liam saw it on the tv and his dad ACTUALLY helped with the building of the war machine that is going to the united of states.”
Of course I will sh*t my pants if that ever happens. But I’ll hold off warning the millitary for now.
winsomebella
November 12, 2011
And then one day you become old enough that your grown children kindly defer to your aging and ignore the grammatical and context errors that you begin to make.
thelifeofjamie
November 12, 2011
that is quite the odd combination of search terms…what kind of bears? Sun Bears, Panda? They don’t have a ton of options in China.
educlaytion
November 12, 2011
It’s true. We haven’t ordered a bear attack since the last time. I also received a search bomb. It said, “educlaytion and the good greatsby whispering at strangers together.”
It’s not always about whispering though. That’s only for when violence is necessary. We’ve never met a stranger we wouldn’t kill. With our trained bears.
Leanne Shirtliffe
November 12, 2011
God help us all now that you two have teamed up. I’m hiding in my backyard. With a grizzly.
lynne @ gardenmad
November 13, 2011
I seem to remember going through a few years when our boys were younger hearing “You’re not the boss of me” quite a lot. Glad that’s over with. My search term of the week was “young hostas porn”. Gotta make you wonder how hostas, especially the younger ones, are getting on the internet…..
gerknoop
November 13, 2011
My 8 yr. old still calls his Grandpa Crapa….and my daughter (25) used to say Peuwwfume instead of perfume, and my son (21) used to say hangaburbers instead of hamburgers. We still sometimes use those terms with them just for fun sometimes. lol
My neighbors granddaughter told her mom that she was “getting on her nerds” and insisted when corrected that is WAS nerds not nerves.
Robyn
November 13, 2011
Ha ha thats how my daughter speaks AND spells! pursin = person kapewtr = computer lol
nursemyra
November 26, 2011
I used to say “Hopsital” when I was little. One day I made the mistake of telling my children and they’ve never let me forget it.
“getting on my nerds” is wonderful. I’m going to use that one.
Robyn
November 13, 2011
I once asked my son how to spell something. Now he asks if I need help with spelling each time I am required to write him a note for school. Cheeky little buggar is lucky he is cute.
John Erickson
November 13, 2011
“Grammackeral” errors? That sounds kinda fishy….
Todd Pack
November 13, 2011
You’ll miss those grammackeral errors someday. You’ll be going along and you’ll notice he’s saying everything correctly, and you’ll be a little sad. Trust me.
pegoleg
November 15, 2011
You’re so right, Todd! My daughter always said “chester drawers” for a bureau and it was so cute we didn’t correct her. When she was arguing with someone about the pronunciation in high school and found out she had it wrong, she was not amused. But we were sad to lose that little bit of innocence.
Grammackeral forever!
Dana
November 13, 2011
Reminds me of the time when I had to assemble a BBQ and asked my then-boyfriend if he had a “rickshaw” I could borrow… I was trying to sound all construction-savvy, but learned too late the difference between a ratchet and a rickshaw. 😦
Wish I could blame this on the ignorance associated with being 7 or even 10, but alas– I was about 20 at the time. The shame, it burns.
John Erickson
November 13, 2011
Don’t feel bad, Dana, I’m going down your road of wrong words, compliments of my migraines. “Dehumidifier” has become “water-pot”, and the kitchen is now the food room. (My brain tends to skip a track and can’t find the right word nowadays.) So at least you’re close with “rickshaw” – beats the heck outta my “wrench with the turny thingy on the end”! 😀
amblerangel
November 13, 2011
Grammackarel`s not correct?
Binky
November 13, 2011
It’s so sad for the parents when their kids surpass them. Don’t feel too bad. It was inevitable.
pattisj
November 14, 2011
When you get your cut from The Fonz, don’t remember you owe us for being dedicated followers.
judithhb
November 14, 2011
Me thinks Optimist Prime be related to Mrs Malaprop – but making up his own words. May I have Grammackarel please? I am sure I can find a use for it in a blog soon!
nursemyra
November 26, 2011
My friends and I collect the errors known as “eggcorns”. My favourite so far has been “The girl next store….”