Wonderland Words

heyy what do u mean

I read to my children, but with computors etc, will the children of today be able to read to their children, will they even know the joy of reading classics etc. All they do is plug an earphone in and shut the world of imagination out.

is good for the kids to be able to read a book without sitting at a computer... they love there parents to read to them

I've often thought that there is no single word that describes that moment where you walk towards someone in a corridor - they move the same way as you do, and then the other way, and then back again, and so on. Sort of a corridor shuffle, or perhaps a 'corruffle'.

What about a passuffle for a passing shuffle because it happens in more than corridors?

Our grandkids love being read to, as our children loved being read to when they were young. I don't think the love of reading will ever die out, although we might be reading to children from an ebook!

Nice thought stitchpuzz. You made me think of 'pas de deux' which literally means 'steps of two'. Why shouldn't we ordinary walkers steal a ballet term and use it for ordinary life?!

"leggings are not trousers." I have a pair of treggings from the UK!

My youngest son is allergic to calcium and soy so when he was little we had a word which was unique to our little family. It was teabletje, a combination of tea and tablet(in dutch) because he would have an effervessant calcium tablet in his morning bottle of tea.

I love words and love reading. I recall with some amusement all the silly words my children said as they were growing. I once heard that as children learn their native tongue they actually say a lot in foreign tongues, but their family don't realise it. Has any one else heard this?

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Yes arcticprincess! I'm convinced my 2 year old speaks in Spanish sometimes - perhaps he's watched one too many episodes of 'Dora the Explorer'?

Jessie, our middle son has lived with the name Roo for 30+yrs because his older sibling couldn't pronounce Andrew at the time. He has collected so many Roo things over the years that he now has a bar room, named The Roo Bar.

It would not surprise me if babies and toddlers uttered words from other languages. They all start babbling sounds and then combining them. They also probably manage to say a few words in English that only brilliant wordsmiths and people in highly specialised fields are aware of !

arctic princess if you can find a book by Bill Bryson called 'MOTHER TONGUE' he explains what you are saying.

I always told my children that books are special & will be here long after the computer & TV blows up. I have read to my children since they were born. People said I was crazy reading to babies; they couldn't understand a thing I said, they reckoned. They are 9 & 7 now & I still read to them albiet only once a week but I often catch the younger one sitting in bed surrounded by all her toys, reading to them. That's proof enough for me that I wasn't as crazy as people said.