This is our 4 year old Peter retreiving what was left of yesterday's paper from the back seat of our car. He spotted it just as we were pulling away for a birthday party yesterday and said "Oh look there's the Wall Street Journal - daddy left it" and then hopped out and quickly grabbed it. Upon buckling back into his booster seat he asked, "please mom, can I open it? I really want to see the hot and the cold of the world"."Go ahead", I answered hoping his curiosity wouldn't lead to some of the "hot and cold" issues of the world that I am still trying to process myself. But as it turns out he was just interested in temperatures and then read off the high and lows from Mexico to Iraq. He expressed specific concern about some heavy rains headed towards Shanghai and said "boy, I'm glad we don't live there".
I was able to glance through the paper a bit this morning and thought how great it is to be a child when your biggest worries are the weather and whether or not it is too wet to play outside.
As for kids reading the paper, there's really no avoiding it in our home as you can see in these other really funny pictures.
Our hot and cold are quickly going down. We even got frost last week.
ReplyDeleteScott used to bring the journal home, and Jerome and I enjoyed it the following day. He doesn't anymore and I miss that.
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ReplyDeleteCaroline always looks at the weather for her fashion choices and Jake and Natalie fight over the comics. I hope one day they will look at the current events.
ReplyDeleteOh that is so cute! I love hearing what kids come up with and their own unique ways of expressing their thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThose pictures are so cute! We don't even get the paper. I just do all my reading online now, but I am very interrested in starting to really coupon so maybe I will get the Sunday paper again.
ReplyDeletePriceless Alison. Love the post.
ReplyDeleteI never did find out what the temp was in Beijing..cool that he can read it..also cool the Clara, < 2years old, taught herself the letters with associated words.
ReplyDeleteLove, Dad