Response to Susana's Junkyard quote 2 (week 1), week 1

I love the originality of what children say. I think that is what makes it almost harder to capture their character on paper than it is to capture what we think is the more complex adult. It's like my nephew, Kade, there are times when he says things that you know are merely parroting repetition of something he's heard his mother, father, or some other adult in his life say. In fact, one day my sister started noticing him saying something that sounded like "damn it," but she had no idea where he would have picked up that language (his family is very careful to watch what we say whenever we are around him), and thought it had to be something else that she just couldn't make out. It was about a week later, however, that he was standing in the kitchen "helping" his grandmother put up dishes out of the dishwasher that my mother dropped a spoon on the floor. In completely plain language, Kade said "Damn it, Bramma, you dropped a 'poon." The occasion of the five year-old boy Susana overheard is probably just like Kade, a repetition of something heard. I mean, how many times do you think both of those twin brothers have probably heard their mother chide them for being cranky? But then, there are other times that a child will say something that couldn't possibly have come from an adult; the language is too new, fresh, and unexpected to have been overheard and betrays and uniquely child-like perspective. It's this kind of material I hope to steal like crazy from my nephew this semester.