Friday, May 27, 2011

The Power of Um

My son likes to stall when it's time to go to bed (or time to do anything he wants to delay, really).  Pretty normal for a preschooler.

Last night on the way to bed, his stalling tactics were all about asking me which books I wanted to read:

"You wanna read... um... Curious George?"

And after he had a few specific books in mind, he sort of trailed off like this:

"You wanna read... um..."
"You wanna... um..."
"You wanna read... um..."

... and that was all he had. I could see his brain twirling, searching for something important to say so that he could stay up just a few more minutes. I smiled and loved him for this attempt.

He has a brilliant use of the word, "um." :)

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