One day in January, my 4-year-old granddaughter arrived home from school with a big announcement. She excitedly told her mom, my daughter, that her class was going to have an “Old Ladies’ Show.”
Old Ladies’ Show? What could that possibly mean? Then my granddaughter corrected her story. “No, not an old ladies’ show. I meant we are having an Old Fashioned Show.”
Still, my daughter was bewildered. With further conversation and description, it was determined that the children were creating Valentines Day vests out of paper shopping bags. They would decorate them with hearts. Then in February they would invite families in to watch them model their Valentines vests.
Ah! The story finally clicked. They were planning a “FASHION SHOW!”
With 4-year-olds’ language, sometimes you need to ask a lot of questions and dig deeper to understand. In order to speak “four year old,” you have to realize just how literally they think.
“Old Ladies’ Show” had morphed into “Old Fashioned Show” and finally into “Fashion Show”- what she came home escited about in the first place!
*The author, Theresa Young, is Grammy to this little sweetie plus 7 other grandkids. She is also the owner of Lenape Kiddie Kollege, a well known nursery school in Medford, NJ.
www.LenapeKiddieKollege.com