Frustration. I can't even begin to estimate the amount of frustration Lucas and Eli experience in the course of a day. Eli takes his frustrations in stride most of the time. He shrugs and says he will learn, whatever the subject is, later. Lucas blurts his challenges at random and spontaneous times.
One night this week after baseball practice, he plopped on the couch beside me and with a huge sigh said, "How do you learn the words? You know the big ones. Did you go to kindergarten and they told you all the words and you remembered them? I didn't go to kindergarten here so I didn't get those big words told to me. Where do you get them?"
Wow. I asked if there was a particular word he'd heard or was it a matter of not having a word for what he was trying to say. Nope. He said he just got to thinking and he decided that "we all" must have learned every word we know in kindergarten.
Eli, ever the supportive brother, chimed in, "Dude. Just go with it, make it up, it all sounds funny when we say it any way." After I stopped the inappropriate parental laughing, I explained that everyone has to learn little words and then over a long time we all learn bigger and more complex words.
What did I receive in response to my improvised English lesson? "Huh." Guess Lucas is staying with the little words as they express what he thinks pretty clearly.
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