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Date: 30 July 2008 19:50:47
Toddler doesn't like showers. He and his little sister have baths. With lots of ducks. Plastic ducks. And occasionally sharks. Imaginary sharks. I've not quite figured out where they came from. He's never seen a TV programme or read any story books with sharks in. But sometimes they appear in the bath. They're aren't very scary. In fact, it's the sharks that are often the ones suffering. For some reason the sharks are often sick in the bath. Toddler does some very realistic sound effects for them.
Yesterday we were talking about showers and baths and Toddler mentioned his friend Flower who likes to have showers instead of baths. Toddler was certain that the reason for this was because Flower didn't want to be eaten by the sharks. I tried to suggest that there weren't actually any sharks in her bath. Real or imaginary ones. But he wasn't having any of it. Sometimes Toddler is very clear about the difference between real and imaginary. Sometimes the divide gets a little blurred. Sometimes he's just being stubborn. On this occasion it was certainly the latter. I changed the topic of conversation...
Today we were having a wet walk through the park. Toddler had his boots on. He was splashing in puddles. I was trying to avoid the splashing. And trying to stop him falling in the stream that runs alongside the path we were taking. Toddler keenly explained to me that he wasn't going to fall in because the stream was where the fishes lived. And the sharks. I tried to explain that there were no sharks in the stream. That sharks live in the sea.
Then I quickly added that they were a long way away in the deep sea. For fear that we'd be repeating the whole 'there are sharks here' thing on our next trip to the beach. Sometimes it feels like I just can't win. Toddler logic rules.