Patterico's Pontifications

2/18/2006

Even Other People’s Kids Say the Darndest Things

Filed under: Real Life — Patterico @ 8:09 pm



Apparently I’m not the only person who likes to blog conversations with my children. Stuart Buck does too. His son sounds like my daughter — which stands to reason, since they’re both six.

6 Responses to “Even Other People’s Kids Say the Darndest Things”

  1. Gotta love those 6-year-olds.

    DRJ (3c8cd6) — 2/18/2006 @ 8:47 pm

  2. LOL

    My twin grandsons are now three and really becoming chatterboxes. Sometimes they come out with stuff that has us howling for days.

    Darleen (f20213) — 2/18/2006 @ 10:07 pm

  3. Hey, I’m a professional artist and I have to agree with the six-year-old: Black IS a color! There are many varieties of black: Lamp Black, Ivory Black, Mars Black and Jet Black. Tell that father he owes the kid an apology.

    Diana Magrann (5b73ea) — 2/19/2006 @ 1:19 am

  4. Diana

    Curious. Could you tell the difference between all those black colors in a room completely, utterly devoid of light?

    Darleen (f20213) — 2/19/2006 @ 9:08 am

  5. Darleen — by using a “blacklight”, of course! 😎

    Bill M (4f48a9) — 2/19/2006 @ 10:44 am

  6. Bet your average three-year-old could answer that question: In a room completely, utterly devoid of light you could not see ANY colors at all!

    By the way, if you google ‘black color’ you get 100,000,000 results.

    Some day the little tykes will learn how light is refracted to produce colors, and then they will learn that white is composed of colors while black is the absence of color. But for all practical purposes, black IS a color. Just look at any catalog which gives the consumer a choice of colors. Black is listed as a color, not as the absence of color.

    I think the father was being unnecessarily legalistic in his definition to his young son. Have a heart — they will grow up soon enough.

    Diana Magrann (5b73ea) — 2/19/2006 @ 8:09 pm


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