Monday, February 9, 2009

Don't Limit Your Vocabulary

My three-year-old called his sister a miscreant today. I almost fell out of my chair.

ME: Did he just say miscreant?

HUSBAND: Oh, yeah. You've never heard him say that before? They call each other miscreants all the time.

Where did they get it from? Ice Age 2.

So, if you are writing a picture book and you are thinking of limiting your vocabulary, DON'T!

If kids aren't exposed to big words, how are they going to learn them?

6 comments:

Casey Something said...

Oh man. How funny! My two-year-old watches both Ice Age movies constantly. I wonder if she'll pull something out of it.

It's amazing what they pick up. Kind of scary too though. :p

Christine said...

Amen!Those SAT questions aren't going to answer themselves.

Kelly H-Y said...

Oh my gosh, that made me laugh! That is so awesome ... well, not that he called his sister a miscreant, but that he knew the word and used it, uh, appropriately?! Too funny!

Shelli (srjohannes) said...

so true =- you'd be surprised what they pick up :)

Unknown said...

So cute! And so true...don't limit! Don't be afraid that a word/sentence/paragraph/book is too big--there will be an audience for it!

Sherrie Petersen said...

That's awesome! I love when my kids pull words like that out of the air!