Smart flowers
Jun. 12th, 2006 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dtmEveryone always tells Katherine that she's pretty/cute/gorgeous/etc. She's picked up on this. For example, she will want to run out of the room after I get her dressed in the morning to "go show momma I'm a pretty girl". Or she'll just tell you, flat out, "I'm beautiful" (pronounced "boo-tiful" for extra cuteness). Now, I suppose this is much, much better than having her tell say negative things about herself, but it started bothering me that Katherine was picking up the language of valuing herself through how she looks, so we've been trying to push other positive adjectives on her as well: smart, strong, big, etc.
I think we may have been pushing the other adjectives in too formulaic a manner. This weekend we were at a friends' house and when we left Katherine was given some small flowers from the yard (daisies mostly). Katherine was happy to hold them as we put her into the car. Then, in the car, the conversation went like this:
Katherine: Look, mommy! I got four(*) flowers!
Jennifer: Yes Katherine, aren't they pretty?
Katherine: Yeah.
Katherine (quieter, to herself): Yeah, the flowers pretty. And smart, and (unintelligible), and strong, and boo-tiful.
(*) "four" is the latest word that means "more than one". She'll hold up two cups and say "look, I got four cups". She used to use "three" (pronounced "fwee") for this. Inflation, I guess.
I think we may have been pushing the other adjectives in too formulaic a manner. This weekend we were at a friends' house and when we left Katherine was given some small flowers from the yard (daisies mostly). Katherine was happy to hold them as we put her into the car. Then, in the car, the conversation went like this:
Katherine: Look, mommy! I got four(*) flowers!
Jennifer: Yes Katherine, aren't they pretty?
Katherine: Yeah.
Katherine (quieter, to herself): Yeah, the flowers pretty. And smart, and (unintelligible), and strong, and boo-tiful.
(*) "four" is the latest word that means "more than one". She'll hold up two cups and say "look, I got four cups". She used to use "three" (pronounced "fwee") for this. Inflation, I guess.