{"id":8494,"date":"2015-05-27T00:05:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T06:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=8494"},"modified":"2015-05-26T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:06:27","slug":"big-people-words-from-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=8494","title":{"rendered":"Big People Words (from Mom)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>For all you teachers, grandparents and anyone who knows and converses with children \u2013 be careful what you ask for\u2026..<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A group of kindergartners were trying very hard to become accustomed\u00a0to the first grade.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on NO baby talk!<\/p>\n<p>You need to use &#8216;Big People&#8217; words,&#8217; she was always reminding them.<\/p>\n<p>She asked John what he had done over the weekend?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I went to visit my Nana.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use &#8216;Big People&#8217; words!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She then asked Mitchell what he had done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I took a ride on a choo-choo.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She said. &#8216;No, you took a ride on a TRAIN. You must remember to use\u00a0&#8216;Big People&#8217; words.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She then asked little Alex what he had done?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I read a book,&#8217; he replied.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s WONDERFUL!&#8217; the teacher said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What book did you read?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>( I love this&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Alex thought real hard about it, then puffed out his chest with great\u00a0pride and said:\u00a0&#8220;Winnie the SHIT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all you teachers, grandparents and anyone who knows and converses with children \u2013 be careful what you ask for\u2026.. A group of kindergartners were trying very hard to become accustomed\u00a0to the first grade. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on NO baby talk! You need to use &#8216;Big People&#8217; words,&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=8494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big People Words (from Mom)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8496,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494\/revisions\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}