Maverick_Mom Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 ...your child tells the family cat that she is "as beautiful as Helen of Troy!" ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 That's TOOO funny :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 ...your kids use, "You stinketh like a man from Tyre," as an insult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 (edited) Your 6yo just bought a new toy horse and had to name it Ferdinand since it was going to marry another toy named Isabella. We won't even talk about how excited they both were to find a science encyclopedia at the used book store or how they squealed when they found out the daily special at our favorite restaurant included asparagus as the vegetable. My kids are probably just weird. Edited March 27, 2011 by Karen in CO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauracolumbus Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Your kids just christened your new Honda Odyssey, Penelope. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eletelephant Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 After reading about Osiris and Isis my kids thought that if you married a sibling, you'd turn blue. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 You go to the beach and your children discover a Tunicate. Then take photos and insist all their (bemused) friends come admire it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 When considering a purchase, your son finally says, "Nunc aut numquam!" (now or never) He had to explain it to the bewildered salesman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhudson Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Your son writes everything in roman numerals, requiring the piano teacher to learn them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in WI Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Your boys play Retiarii versus Thracian. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 My son named his toy horse Bucephalus when he was 2. He was listening in when I was teaching his older brother. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalknot Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Your brother (who is watching your son while you're out of town) text messages you this photo, and wants to know what kind of freak kid plays Romans versus Barbarians. With golf balls. For over an hour. Then, when questioned, lectures you for 20 minutes on the various war strategies of each side, even following you downstairs - still yapping - as you try to escape the lesson. My son text messaged me a few minutes later with his own side of the story: "Can you believe Uncle didn't even know or care about the Romans?!? I guess that makes him a Barbarian LOL" :D I love these threads, they always crack me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Your brother (who is watching your son while you're out of town) text messages you this photo, and wants to know what kind of freak kid plays Romans versus Barbarians. With golf balls. For over an hour. Then, when questioned, lectures you for 20 minutes on the various war strategies of each side, even following you downstairs - still yapping - as you try to escape the lesson. My son text messaged me a few minutes later with his own side of the story: "Can you believe Uncle didn't even know or care about the Romans?!? I guess that makes him a Barbarian LOL" :D I love these threads, they always crack me up. :lol: That is hysterical!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLittleWonders Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 These are hysterical! :lol: Mine is ... when your four year old is chanting Latin verb endings while playing with his action figures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeneralMom Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 My son named his toy horse Bucephalus when he was 2. He was listening in when I was teaching his older brother. :) My kids did this, too. Your 6 year old asks "Mom, just how were the gates to the Egyptian underworld built" which necessitates you spending hours on the internet trying to find an answer for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Researcher Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 These are great! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: When your 3yo informs Grandma that he wants to listen to REAL music..."Don't you have Mozart, Grandma???" When your dc play in "The Hundred Acre Woods" one year, and "The Sherwood Forest" the next... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manamana Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 While visiting a new Sunday school class at a new church, dd recites the lesson's Bible verse (John 1:1) to the class in Latin. She forgot to mention it is the only Bible verse she knows in Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 ...your child tells the family cat that she is "as beautiful as Helen of Troy!" ;) Your son thinks the quotation "only a fool laughs at Latin" is worth memorizing. Playing the Boom and Bust music video will bring your kids running. You always look twice at the Latin section in music stores, only to be disappointed. Again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Your kids just christened your new Honda Odyssey, Penelope. Laura We saw a Honda Odyssey on I95 a few weeks ago with the license plate "Illyad". We thought that was pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriwether Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 You tell your Ds6 that you are going to fold the mountain of laundry before he finishes his 100 problem fact practice sheet and your Dd7 says "It's a Herculean task." (Yes, the pile of laundry was that high.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Your fourteen year old believes EVERYONE could benefit from a course in logic. LOL-he might have a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Your brother (who is watching your son while you're out of town) text messages you this photo, and wants to know what kind of freak kid plays Romans versus Barbarians. With golf balls. For over an hour. Then, when questioned, lectures you for 20 minutes on the various war strategies of each side, even following you downstairs - still yapping - as you try to escape the lesson. My son text messaged me a few minutes later with his own side of the story: "Can you believe Uncle didn't even know or care about the Romans?!? I guess that makes him a Barbarian LOL" :D I love these threads, they always crack me up. It took us about 45 minutes to get through the gates of the castle in Nuremberg because we were acting out an assault on the castle and all of the various defenses that would have to be overcome. Of course, my dh also took pictures of the tourists eavesdropping on me while I was explaining the significance of different parts of Strausburg Cathedral. I had no idea that I'd drawn a little crowd. Again, it took about a half hour to actually get through the door, because the doorway was so interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 ...when contemplating a move across country has you dh drooling at the prospect of hitting battle sights ...when the kids are more excited about the science centre and museum where we'll be moving more than meeting uncles, aunts, cousins and great grandma :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homeschooling Again Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 When your ds wants you to read him Bible stories while he takes a warm bath for recess because the stories are "cool." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 My gift to 5yo on his birthday today is Kindergarten. He got a new schedule with his name on it and 2 new books with new files in the school box--also with his name. He could not be happier. When I introduced my children to Pandora Radio, they insisted on hearing the Pandora story. My 8yo likened it to the Garden of Eden story, sparking a discussion of the misogyny of ancient mythology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookfiend Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 When your 8 year old quibbles with his brother over what CD to put in and hotly questsions "Don't I have a right to listen to opera?" When the neighborhood children are coralled into musket drills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberia Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 When this is our favorite family joke: Kid: What's the name of the woman pharaoh? Mom: Hatshepsut. Kid: God bless you. Here's a kleenex. Now, what's the name of the woman pharaoh? Mom: Hatshepsut! Kid: God bless you. You must be getting a cold, mom. Can't you think of her name? Mom: Hatshepsut! and so on... We also get excited when we hear ancient Egyptian, Greek, or Roman names in the news or on TV. "Mom, did you hear? They said something about Aeneas!" Like he's a long lost relative of ours or something. I love these threads. Makes me feel that we're not alone and weird, or at least we're a good kind of weird! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Your three year old hums the hymn from Branagh's Henry V toy his toy knights during battle. The kids memorize Tennyson so that they can recite the Charge of the Light Brigade when they visit the Valley of Death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiana Daniels Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 ....when your kidlets argue over whether they prefer Classical or Ecclesiastical Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michele B Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 when your 5 year old is pretending to be Egyptian, and is asked if she is Cleopatra, and she replies, horrified, "I'm an Egyptian; Cleopatra was a Greek!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelotmom Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 (edited) ...you stick leftover boiled cabbage from making pH indicator into a smoothie with grape juice in order to not let it go to waste. It gave the smoothie a great color - it was grape juice from home grown/pressed grapes, and therefore rather brownish. The cabbage made it "properly" purple, and was mild enough not to be noticed. DD declared it better than grape soda! (ETA: And then a few days later you go into the fridge, and become slightly confused as to which nalgene bottle contains cabbage juice and which grape.) Edited April 6, 2011 by ocelotmom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Dds used to take turns being the rich Roman or the slave scrubbing her back during their baths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 When your two-year-old can :"We're the Mesopotamians Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh." Then the song gets derailed while he and the five-year-old argue over who gets to be Gilgamesh. When your five-year-old asks to study Greek, so that she'll be ready to help translate in case they ever find more of the Rosetta Stone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarreymere Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 OUR cat is named Persephone..........:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simka2 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Oooooh! I have one! Yesterday, in science we were discussing ants and their various roles in an ant colony. We got to the Midden Ants, which clean the tunnels and take out the waste, and my son excitedly announces, "Just like the Untouchables in India!" :001_huh::D Uuuuummmmm, okay. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GypsieFamily Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) When your 7 year old is doing Latin chants while skiing ... When your kids build Jeanne D'Arc's army to go fight the English, and get upset at the toddler for wanting her knight to be William the Conqueror... When the worst insult they can come up with is to call each other Latin words .. Edited April 16, 2011 by GypsieFamily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovemyboys Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Your 6yo just bought a new toy horse and had to name it Ferdinand since it was going to marry another toy named Isabella. We won't even talk about how excited they both were to find a science encyclopedia at the used book store or how they squealed when they found out the daily special at our favorite restaurant included asparagus as the vegetable. My kids are probably just weird. :lol: Upon hearing about the birth of a new cousin, your 8 yo exclaims, "Isabella! I hope she doesn't try to take over Spain! Where's Ferdinand?" Same here for science equipment and office supply products .... not so much on the veggies! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogs4 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 your son nicknames his friend "Charles Martel" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogs4 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 When your 7 year old is doing Latin chants while skiing ... When your kids build Jeanne D'Arc's army to go fight the English, and get upset at the toddler for wanting her knight to be William the Conqueror... When the worst insult they can come up with is to call each other Latin words .. or when you hear your five-year-old riding her scooter saying something to herself. You stop and listen and she's conjugating Latin verbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquinas Academy Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) ...when your 9yo starts teaching the man at the hardware store how to diagram sentences. ...when you 7yo, who was just playing outside, comes running up to and says in a panicked voice, "Mummy, I've forgotten which Greek letter comes after nu!" I love these threads! :D Edited April 17, 2011 by Aquinas Academy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 (edited) When your 2yo gives Mummy-tickles (arms out like a zombie saying "err, arg, tickle, tickle, tickle!") When the worst insult they can come up with is to call each other Latin words .. Have they read "How to Insult, Abuse & Insinuate in Classical Latin"? http://www.amazon.com/insult-abuse-insinuate-classical-Latin/dp/076071018X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303615116&sr=8-1 Edited April 24, 2011 by theYoungerMrsWarde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 When your 8 year old corrects you about whom exactly William the Conqueror tricked with relics. And when the same kid, in response to his aunt asking him why he is naked, says, "I'm not. I'm wearing my scarlet underwear." When the pediatrician asks your 6 year old, "What's new?" and the 6 yr. old says, "Quid novi?". At the puzzled look from the doctor, the 6 yr. old explains, "That's 'what's new?' in Latin." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 ...When your two-year-old says "amabo te" when asking for some apple juice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandi in Ohio Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 These are great!! LOL! Mandi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 When your child writes notes to the tooth fairy, Dear Titania, because of course she has a Shakespearean fairy name. When your 6 yr old brushes her teeth each day by playing a little game where the toothbrush represents the American Patriots and the germs in her mouth are the Redcoats who must be destroyed. When they assign copywork to their dolls during playtime. When they pray in Latin at bedtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 When your 6 yr old brushes her teeth each day by playing a little game where the toothbrush represents the American Patriots and the germs in her mouth are the Redcoats who must be destroyed. :smilielol5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 ...When your two-year-old says "amabo te" when asking for some apple juice. Also, you know you've spent too much time on parenting boards when you make a post like this and then your next thought is "Oh cr*p, people are totally going to judge me for giving my kid apple juice." Judge away. At least he's polite. In Latin. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Oh another one... When your kids like the Corona beer signs in the convenience store because they know it means crown in Latin. They have no idea it is a beer sign!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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