Today is my big boy’s eighth birthday! I was thinking about how different the world is now from the world around me when I was eight. When we went to the grocery store today and he told me he didn’t need to wear his jacket because of global warming, I laughed because that was certainly a phrase I didn’t say when I was eight years old. I thought about a few more words I hear from him that I would have never said.
Eight words/phrases my eight year old says that I didn’t know at eight:
- Jedi
- remote
- voice mail
- “I need to plug my phone into the charger”
- app
- Quidditch
- “Take a picture of this with your phone”
- hashtag
And eight I said back in 1987 that he never says:
- “I have to do my homework” (he’s a homeschool kid)
- radio
- “Wood residence, this is Sandra speaking.” (The phrase I used when I answered the phone. He has never answered the phone without knowing who was calling.)
- Mrs. (he goes most days without seeing anyone he refers to as Mrs.)
- “My turn to sit up front!”
- Saturday morning cartoons
- “Mom, can you curl my hair?”
- She-Ra
