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Thanksgiving for Small Children
We have one. We’re thankful he’s adorable. He should be thankful he’s adorable, too:
I shudder to remember what my kids have used as “finger paints”.
Well done!
You’ve captured the essence of the enterprise.
Indeed!
Just wonderful. Brought a smile to my face.
The adorableness is suitable camouflage for having the ethics of a pirate with poor impulse control. We all had it.
Some of us still need it.
And adorable enough to move you to poetry. Happy Thanksgiving!
But not on Black Bart Roberts’ ship. No gambling, no smuggling of girls, no playing music on Sunday. And lights out at eight.
I have met Zeke, of course he is adorable, look at his parents. Beside their being adorable is a survival mechanism for when they advance to their teens and they become…..less than adorable.
Miss Midget (I lived the South for awhile), one of tags you should have included was “Really wonderful poem.” Because that’s what it is.
However, what is the “ust” in the fourth line? I think I’ve missed something clever.
Kent
Precious. Precious-er. Precious-ust.
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Precious-est?
Kent
Whaddaya want? It’s poetry.
JM, I think Ms. MFR will have to step in and settle this.
Kent
Simply fantastic. It totally tells the real story of parenthood. Very well done.
Doggerel can refer to unintentionally bad poetry, but also to poetry that’s intentionally “bad” for comedic effect.
“Preciousest” is a silly word to begin with, and its final syllable –est, could be pronounced either to rhyme with best or with bust. Since I was using “preciousest” as a silly word to rhyme with “trust”, I wanted to emphasize the “rhymes with bust” pronunciation, and so I spelled “preciousest” “preciousust”. And I broke “preciousust” up with a hyphen to make it look even sillier. Hence
precious-
ust
My daughters are all really cute (even accounting for parental bias), and it’s a really good thing for them. Especially the three year old twins. Faith most of all. She’s got all my stubbornness (mules come to me for lessons), curiosity (all nine lives would be long gone if I was a cat), and views rules as challenges instead of limits. And she’s smart. Being cute is about the only thing keeping her out of trouble, at least until she’s old enough it starts getting her into trouble.
By then, hopefully smart and stubborn take over to keep her out of trouble.
I’d recommend adding “meaner than a snake when provoked” to the list.
If she survives until then. Yesterday while I was at work and while my wife was buckling the other twin into her car seat, Faith climbed into the drivers seat and figured out how to push the brake pedal and start button to start the car. I would not be shocked to hear she’s figured out how to put the car into gear too. She’s three. We are so screwed.