Mary Poppins...

[Mouse House Mama]

Yeah she got that name because she got Married and she Pops her umbrella open all the time.

According to one of my children that is why they call her Mary Poppins.

 

[barkley]

i love it when kids come up with this stuff-and even moreso when they have misunderstood/misheard something and it colors their belief.

we still give ds a bad time b/c of what he came up with when he misunderstood the lyrics on one of his chipmunks cd's. he came up to dh and i one day and asked "why is the man in the song so attached to a shellfish?". we were like "what shellfish, what song?".

ds was instant that the lyrics to "my darling clemintine" were-"she's a LOBSTER, gone forever, dreadful sorrow clemintine"

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Too cute. See my screen name!!

 

[bumbershoot]

ds was instant that the lyrics to "my darling clemintine" were-"she's a LOBSTER, gone forever, dreadful sorrow clemintine"

My brother thought that the Doobie Brothers were singing about "mama being taken to the 5&10" store. We went there often, and in the lyrics it says "pretty mama gonna take you by the hand" or something like that, and he thought it was 5&10.

I thought that Kenny Rogers was singing about his wife having left their 400 children and a crop in the fields.

I also HATED the Blue Bayou song b/c I thought she was leaving her *baby* behind, like her baby-baby, not her boyfriend-type-baby.


On the other hand, sometimes we ignore ugly lyrics and our kids catch them!

I didn't sing many normal lullabies to DS b/c they just didn't work. I've basically been singing the tune of "frere jaques" with "little cowboy, little cowboy, I love you" as the main lyric, changing it up with "big cowboy", sometimes going totally different with "buzz lightyear, buzz lightyear, I love you" etc etc, and I've been doing that since he was 2. I finally got bored with those, and tried "Rockabye baby". He was all cozy and cuddly, and as I went further into the song he sat up, started looking at me, then had this look of utter disgust in his eyes...he said (he was 5 I think)..."WHAT are you SINGING to me?????" I realized what awful lyrics those are, and immediately stopped and said "I have no idea, what was I thinking?" and moved back to "big cowboy".

And some months ago I was singing Darling Clementine, and I got the same look. What the heck? "She was gone and lost forever?" Who came up with that as a lullaby to a child???

So..."big cowboy, big cowboy, I love you, I love you, you're my biiiig cowboy, you're my biiig cowboy, I love you...I love you..." forever and ever. Not trying anymore lullabies!

 

[superme80]

 

[Mouse House Mama]

2 minutes ago........"Dad! Can we get a jackhammer?"



I swear this house is comic relief 24/7.

 

[simba20]

I was student teaching one semester.....wait, let me back up.

Okay, this is in Southern Georgia, well Southeast GA, but a Southern accent is a Southern accent, and for the natural born and bredit gets quite thick. My parents are from California and The North respectively, so while I have picked up an accent during my 30 years living here. I can drop it or rarely affect it.

So anyways....I am student teaching, and one of the categories we got marks on during observation was Student teacher uses and models proper English and elicits clear communication." It wasn't a huge category to earn marks, but it was always there....and sadly there were student teachers who dropped g endings from -ings ending words, used "country grammar," or afflicted such a thick accent they were hard to understand.

So one day, I am in front of the class teaching and after I was through with my lesson, my university supervisor asked the class how they would grade me on my teaching (he had already given his marks). So he listens to the class about what I do well, and he gets to the "communication" section when the students all agree that I sound like Mary Poppins -- all because I did not use my Southern accent and talked "good" as the kids replied. I had to laugh.

Also in that class we had a boy who had moved from Birmingham, England and I always loved to have him talk or read aloud because I loved his accent. The fact that he also was a doppleganger for Harry Potter (I am a huge HP nut) was also fun. Most of the kids thought we were related, because they thought I sounded like him. I can not affect an English accent -- of whatever dialect -- to save my life, oh how I wish though.

 

[gerberdaisy1234]

i love it when kids come up with this stuff-and even moreso when they have misunderstood/misheard something and it colors their belief.

we still give ds a bad time b/c of what he came up with when he misunderstood the lyrics on one of his chipmunks cd's. he came up to dh and i one day and asked "why is the man in the song so attached to a shellfish?". we were like "what shellfish, what song?".

ds was instant that the lyrics to "my darling clemintine" were-"she's a LOBSTER, gone forever, dreadful sorrow clemintine"

My DS sang the song from the first recent chipmunk movie... "Taco body, taco body, taco body..." I believe it is suppose to be "Talk about it"