My son called out from across the house, “How do you spell dare?”
Seeing as how this was on Valentine’s Day, I thought that that was an unusual word for a valentine. But I spell it out for him anyway: D, A, R, E.
What I got back was an awkward silence. Then he asked it again, “How do you spell dare?!” So, somehow he knew that that wasn’t the spelling he wanted, or he just didn’t hear me. I asked him to pronounce it clearly. He yelled back,
“Duh! Air! Ruh!”
“Dair!”
Yeah, well, that didn’t help at all. So I asked him to use it in a sentence.
“Dere’s a giraffe over dere.”
Who We Were Then
- David
- Lillian
- Maddie (8 years old)
- Aaron (6 years old)