Our son has developed a strange obsession with punctuation. It's not like we tried to teach it to him -- it happened by accident. One night before bed we were reading our "Family Car Songbook" (actual title) which had become a pretty regular staple in the before-bed ritual. He enjoyed hearing us sing the songs and would join in whenever he felt like it. That was before his puctuation obsession.
Then he noticed the song titles in big bold letters across the top of the pages and one night asked,
"What's this Mama?"
"It's a comma."
"What's this?"
"That's an apostrophe."
So now, every night, instead of reading stories, or even singing songs, he selects the book based on how much punctuation it has. He can now identify a period, a comma, an apostrophe, an exclamation point, a hyphen, a question mark, parentheses and just yesterday I heard this:
"MAMA COME HERE! AN ELLIPSIS!!!"
Low and behold, there it was in all its glory...the ellipsis.
He is so going to get beat up one day.
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