catyrpel

[MAC]

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Some of the best conversations....

Are with my three year old daughter
Today she found a caterpillar

She asserted.
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"I'm gonna keep it."
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I explained that she should turn it loose.
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"It lives in the oak tree behind our house."
"The wind blew it out."
"It feels secure there."
"It eats the leaves."
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I figured that covered the whole topic.

She replied
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"Well, I'll feed it"
"It can stay with me and be my caterpillar."
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Darn. Determination.
I further explained.

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"It will turn into a butterfly"
"You like butterflies."
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Gotcha.

She looked at me sideways and retorted.
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"There are lots of other butterflies"
"It can just stay a caterpillar."
"It can make more caterpillars."
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Touche`.
I answered the later first.

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"It has to become a butterfly to make more caterpillars"
"And it can't stay a caterpillar any more than I could make you stay a baby."
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Dead silence

She frowned.
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"Oh"
"I'll put it on the tree and it can go way up high."
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She did.
Then we did puzzles.

Only through teaching do we truly learn.
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[Lady Sianna]

<FONT COLOR="purple">ahhh...the wisdom & wonder of the children! great conversation.

<u>hope for the flowers</u> sounds ideal for your little flutter-by! cute book, great message.

thanks for sharing...it made me smile! http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/smile.gif</FONT c>

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<FONT COLOR="red">it is a great wind that stirs my soul...</FONT c>

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[Kayla]

i like you make your daughters voice/font small and petite, while yours is big and powerful...do you do that on purpose?

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Your such an inspiration for the ways that i will never ever choose to be

[MAC]

Size is relative.

Understanding is metamorphic.



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Don't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

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...fuzzy memories by jack "the MAC" handy....

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