I have a little boy who is my constant companion and ‘yes’ man. He agrees with everything I say in a sweet little gravely voice. I’ll need to fix a book and he’ll say, “Yep. You just need some tape.” I’ll mess up writing and have to cross something out and he’ll say, “Yep. It’s fixable.” (One of our class mottos.)
The other day another child asked me if I wanted to play soccer. I politely declined and said, “Sorry, I’m not kicking balls today.” My yes man amiably added, “Yep. ‘Cause you’re bad at it.”
Hmmph. Accurate. Hurtful, but accurate.
Today I was trying to secure a super-unsafe playground structure we were making and ripped off a piece of duct tape. “Yep. That’s why they call it duck tape. It sounds like a duck when you get some.”
Where does he come up with this stuff?