I take my daughter (18 months) to the local library for toddler programs. Everything from singing and dancing to baby sign language. Today the teacher was teaching some basic animal signs, dog, cat..etc. Anyway the teacher was holding up pictures as she was going through various animals, and she flipped over a picture of an elephant and goes "now kids will not be able to pronounce this word until there older, but here is the sign for it". Before she could get to the end of her sentence my daugher yells out "ELEPHANT!". And then shouted out the colour of it (which was purple). The teacher looked amazing and said she was so surprised a child so young could say such a word.
I sat there and was beaming inside. Thought to myself fucking right on!
Then I though, big deal, she can do tons of animals, and there sounds, and tell you the colour. Made my day (nice to get outside praise on how well your doing!). Not to mention when the program first started some of the ladies in the class were insulting men's parenting skills and I heard one of them question if a stay at home dad was a good thing. Eat that!
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