The Things They Learn in School

I love it when the kids finally realize school is place to learn and not just to play and socialize. For example: During the first few months of kindergarten the kids come home and say they colored or played with play dough. They got to sing with the music teacher and play ball in gym class and everyone is their best friend. But after a few months they start to ask how something is spelled or what letter makes a certain sound. Then they learn what a rhyming word is, and they begin to rhyme every word they hear. This was the case with with "P" recently. We were in the hair room combing out the snarls after her nightly shower and she begins to tell me rhyming words. Cat and rat, dog and frog, house and mouse. I tell her that is great so she continues. Log and dog, kith and pith. "Wait a minute you can't say that word it's naughty", I told her. She immediately bursts into tears and begins trying to talk through her sobs. "I'm sorry mom you never told me pith was a naughty word, why didn't you tell me pith was a naughty word, if I knew pith was a naughty word I wouldn't have said pith"? I told her it okay (trying not to laugh), but never say it again. She immediately stopped crying and through her lisp she said, "Thit now I have to find another word the rhyme with kith". And so we start again!