Thursday, December 09, 2004

Is this a sentence?

We've been tryign to teach Otter that not all men are daddies. He meets men mostly through our friends with kids and through other daycare fathers dropping or picking up their kids, all of hwom he hears called "daddy." So I've been telling him, no, not a daddy, a man, when he does things like post to the absolutely gorgeous guys in the Hanna Andersson or LL Bean catalog and says daddy.

The whole thing seems relatively innocuous, until you meet some friends in the supermarket and he points straight at the man in the couple and says with glee "Daddy!" Funny but also a bit awkward.

It isn't easy for him to grasp that daddy isn't a generic term, especially as one of his grandfathers goes by Dad-dad. With women it's easier, as the women who work at his daycare are NOT called mama or mommy, and thus he gets that not all women are mamas.

But I htink we're getting somewhere. This morning he looked at his father and said "Daddy... MAN!."

I think that's one of his first "sort of" sentences, communicating two concepts and linking them.

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