One of the fun things about being a parent is the chance to see the world anew through the eyes of your children. As adults experience the world, we clump together experiences, ideas, and languages into rather large chunks. On the one hand, this allows us the ability to make sense of a complicated world. But on the other hand it can be difficult to get out of the same mental paths we always tread.
For example involving language, I turn to a conversation that took place in our house this week. One of Peter’s toy wooden boxes broke and Terri told me to fix it with wood glue. Peter heard this and said, “You should use superglue.” Terri replied, “Peter, I don’t think superglue would work for this.” To which Peter politely insisted, “But its super!” I now imagine superglue being to ordinary glues what superheroes are to ordinary heros.
