Literacy Milestone: Correcting My Grammar
March 05, 2018
Recently my daughter passed what I believe is a new milestone on her path to literacy. She corrected my grammar. She was washing her very dirty feet before bed. I said: "Wash 'em good!". She immediately piped back with "Well, Mommy. It should be 'Wash 'em well.'"
She's not wrong, of course. And I didn't have the energy to explain the concept of choosing to use less than perfect grammar in a particular situation. So I just agreed that she was right and let it go. But I thought that those of you who have been following her progress from first learning her letters would appreciate this milestone: recognizing and demanding proper grammar.
Now if only I could get her to do her spelling homework without an enormous fuss...
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