Saturday, November 22, 2008

boys and their ... oh, whatever


Appearances to the contrary, Thomas (5) is not a particularly violent child. But you wouldn’t know it when you hear his performance poetry. The other day he was playing menacing “chords” on the piano, with a voice-over which went something like this:

"Burn – slash – treefall – poison – sword – gun – lava – rock – slime – hit – punch – kick – fire – electricity – slash – destroy … "

Boys. Different from girls from birth.

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