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May 11, 2007
A Digression on Spiders and Things
A brief personal digression. Was sitting here moments ago and the five-year-old came in to chat for a second before leaving for school. The following dialog resulted:Him: Daddy, I love you a lot.Good to know where I rank in the insect/human pantheon.
Me: Oh, that's great. Thanks for telling me.
Him: I love you 100-times more than spiders. I wanted you to know.
Me: Oh ... thanks, I think.
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"100-times more than spiders." You are doing pretty well, Paul. I've been compared to a cute hamster. Hard to say who's on top, except to say that such classifications are grounding, to be sure.
I see an important mental development taking place, rather than spiders vs humans, in that the child's mind is learning proportions. Neat.
Parenthood is humbling, isn't it? :-)