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When I started teaching my son ASL, learning it as fast as I could teach him, I knew that someday, he would go off to deaf school and come home and teach me signs. I always wondered what that would be like. I'm sure every parent goes through this with their kid starts learning things that the someone else other than the parent teaches them.
Well, today I lived that experience for the first time. Ellis came home with a sign I didn't know (I had seen it, but couldn't remember it): Chocolate. He pointed to the big box of hot chocolate mix that I got at Costco today and asked to partake in its delights. I blame school. They did a unit on the book _The Snowy Day_, which included sampling hot chocolate. We don't normally have chocolate around here, so I just haven't really had occasion to use the sign. But my boy taught me the sign for "chocolate" today. Why couldn't it have been "broccoli"?
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He's a chocoholic maybe?? Watch out! LOL.
Posted by: Ann_C | February 12, 2008 11:16 PM
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Oh, come on now! Chocolate is soooo much more exciting than broccoli! And, besides, you have the best excuse ever for eating it.
Posted by: Moriah (Please Pass the Salt) | February 12, 2008 11:44 PM
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George Bush hated broccoli and turned out just fine... (the elder..not Dubya of course...)
Posted by: J.J. Puorro | February 12, 2008 11:47 PM
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Oh boy, are you in for a treat! My "boy" is soon to be 20 this week and he is still teaching his old Deaf mom signs that I never knew existed!
My favorite is his "DUH" sign (knock the D hands together then a U and finally a H hand falling over, with appropriate expression of scorn.)
Posted by: Dianrez | February 13, 2008 02:17 AM
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Don't have chocolate?
Posted by: jeep | February 13, 2008 05:10 AM
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*Chuckle* Sweet. Even my kids teach me new words ad signs still. Fun though.
Posted by: Karen Mayes | February 13, 2008 05:42 AM
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Got Chocolate?
Chocolate are good for you in anyway! You being silly!
Posted by: Steve | February 13, 2008 08:54 AM
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Go buy the boy some chocolate! :)
Posted by: DeafMom | February 13, 2008 09:24 AM
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guess it's time for more chocolate! Too funny!! I have to say, Adelaide has my sweet tooth but I'm so glad she likes her veggies and fruits too!
Posted by: Dawn | February 13, 2008 09:58 AM
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Wait until your boy start to teach you his funny slang signs with his friends. I had plenty that my teachers and my parents had to ask me what are they? When disciplining, I sometimes got flabbergasted to find them using few ones back at me.
Anne Marie
Posted by: Anne Marie | February 13, 2008 10:54 AM
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Last week he signed Juice to me and I knew it was distinct, but I couldn't think of what iy was. About a half hour later I went to get him juice (good thing the boy can nod!) and as I reached for it, I remembered!
Posted by: mom1 | February 13, 2008 11:55 AM
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Congratulations! That's such a sweet milestone.
Posted by: lynnp | February 13, 2008 02:59 PM
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I LOVE that! My E can't have chocolite due to his acid reflux, so I've never learned that sign before.
Posted by: Hetha | February 13, 2008 05:39 PM
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*laughing* And they aren't always patient lecturers, these little ones of ours, are they? Our 2YO has given us some very serious schoolmarmish looks when we haven't caught on to the sign she's using quickly enough.
I'd better learn that sign fast, because I just know that when I want chocolate, I really want chocolate. So if she's anything like me ...
Posted by: Li-Li's Mom | February 14, 2008 05:32 AM