I had NPR on in the car. Conversations like this are the reason I no longer have NPR on all the time...
Ben: "So there is no war in this state?"
Me: "What do you mean?"
Ben: "There are no battles here. Right?" He sounded VERY worried...
It took me a while to tease out what he had heard... but it turned out he heard that "Georgia is not a battleground state."
I explained the literal and figurative meanings of "battleground" (we have been talking about literal vs figurative meanings a lot recently...). So he was picturing men with battle axes not ads and phone calls.
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What came to my mind was that he had heard about the "other Georgia" ...
That was the first thing I had thought of, too! But it had not been in the news this week... and he kept asking about which states were at war... which eventually made me realize what he was thinking about.
Well, on the other hand, it is good for him to struggle to explain away the meaning of the things he does not understand,or the meaning of the words he misheard or misunderstood. It makes his mind roll. And NPR is not the worse place to start.
Olga
Privet, Katyushka,
May you should tell Ben when the children supposed to learn to read between the lines.
Dad
Have fun tonight trick or treating with the boys.
My comment has nothing to do with anything, except of parenting and press.
In the last issue of the Economist,I just read the cutest thing I have to share. They have an insert "Heard on the stump" (about the campaign) with topics like "Worst makeover", "Worst Obama moment", ""Worst media moment", etc. My favorite was "Best promise"-"We promised them that we'll get a dog." Mr Obama promised his daughters a pet if they have to move to Washington."
I thought it was very funny. Specially funny, if you put it side by side with the sign Tamara found last summer in Colorado shop: "Unattended children will be given espresso and a free puppy".
Olga
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