Voting Day
It was after trying out a music class. I was getting Tiny all buckled into her car seat…
Tiny: So, where are we gonin (it’s always nin, instead of ing)?
reanbean: We’re going to go vote.
T: Is it gonna go on the wada (water)?
r: Is what, honey?
T: The boat. Is it gonna go on the wada?
r: No, not a boat, honey. Vote. With a /v/ sound. We’re going to go vote.
T: What’s that means?
r: Voting is what grown ups do to help make choices.
T: Like what you want fo yo breckin (breakfast) or dinna?
r: We vote to make choices about who we want to make big choices for us- it’s kind of complicated. But it’s very important.
T: Oh. When I get big, then I will do that. But right now I’m little. My body is still grownin, and when you get big, you stay big. And Mommy want me to be little for a while.
r: That’s right. I don’t want you to get big too fast. You can have fun and do lots of things while you’re still little. But one day, when you get big, like cousin A (now a freshman in college), then you will be able to go and vote.
T: Yep.
Minutes later, we pulled up at the middle school, our polling place.
T: What’s this place, Mommy?
r: This is where we vote.
T: Oh. Is it gonna go on the wada?
Love it! Not sure I’ll ever be able to vote again without thinking about going “on the wada”.
so cute!
This conversation reminds me of a session you taught your class one time when I was out to visit. One of my many wonderful visits. Won’t be long and they will be in a class like that.
Oh, what a gem to have recorded that conversation! Priceless! (And maybe Tiny can use an excerpt in some way for extra credit in her high school government class one day…HA!)