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Competing with a child

“How many can you count to little one?”

“Oh lots and lots, mummy.”

“Do you want to tell me,”

“Ok.”

A furious look of concentration takes over her features and she splays out her fingers in front of her eyeline.

In a delicious three year old voice she calls out,

“One, two, free, four, ive, ix, heaven, eight, nine and ten.”

As proud as punch she closes her hands and smiles at me triumphantly.

“See mummy, I am so clever.”

Giving my beautiful baby a hug I murmur in agreement.

“You are not clever, mummy, you are silly.”

Hmmm, the conversation seems to have taken an unplanned turn.

“That’s not nice,” I reply in my singsong voice that I reserve for moments like this.

“But true mummy, and I must. Not. Tell. Fibs.”. The pronunciation on the last line is particularly pronounced – lord only knows where she got that from.

My competitive edge starts to mutter under its breath and although my foe is merely a metre tall I still retort.

“Actually, I can count to 1000.” I boast.

Truth be told I can count much higher, but I didn’t want to make her feel really inadequate.

She fixed me with a glare that could melt glaciers.

“See, you are silly.  Everyone knows 1000 is not a real number, not like 2 or 10.  Now stop trying to beat me and read me a story.”

I literally have no words to response…

So I read the story.

Comments

  1. liveotherwise says

    December 9, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    Haha. She got you there!

    Reply
  2. Katie says

    December 9, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    I’m so with you on the competitive edge, I find it really hard to lose to children on purpose like you are supposed to? What does that teach them anyway?!

    Reply
  3. INotmyyearoff says

    December 9, 2013 at 2:00 pm

    Hehe! Yep show her who’s boss BB!

    Reply
  4. rhian @melbs says

    December 10, 2013 at 9:32 am

    Ha ha
    You? competitive? Surely not!!!!

    Reply
  5. jo says

    December 10, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    If I’d been you, she’d have had to listen to me counting up to a thousand. You are a much nicer (and less needy) mum than i am. 🙂

    Reply
  6. Liz at World Vision UK says

    December 11, 2013 at 10:46 am

    I love this! How can you compete

    Reply
    • Liz at World Vision UK says

      December 11, 2013 at 10:47 am

      Little quick to press the post button then sorry! What I meant was, how can you compete when there is no such number as 1000? 🙂

      Reply
  7. Dan says

    December 12, 2013 at 4:52 am

    Brilliant! I love it when kids come out with stuff like this.

    Reply
  8. older mum in a muddle says

    December 17, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    LOL. The brilliance of childen… I am going to feel quite sad when LIttle A turns four next year. I’ve loved three – what a lovely age – the things they come out with, and still with that really cute voice *sighs*. X

    Reply

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