What Grandparents Do

[poliphilo]

Odi and Peter came to lunch. I threw a macaroni cheese together. Even before I got serious about my cooking I had perfected the art of  the cheese sauce.

This was the first time we'd seen them since Odi returned home. Ailz  told them they need to talk to one another. I took Fabrizio's disgusting push chair outside and scrubbed it with soap and water and a hard-bristled brush. This is what grandparents do.

Then I sang to him. I'd like him to grow up knowing all the old nursery rhymes and counting songs. They're the key to the culture.

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Nursery rhymes

[methodius.livejournal.com]

When our daughter was about 2 we visited my wife's second cousin who had just given birth to their first child, and his father was painting Disney characters on the wall. He said to our daughter, "Look, there's Goofy", and she replied "Goofy, Goofy gander."

Re: Nursery rhymes

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like that.

I'm not keen on the way the Disney corporation has colonised childhood.