Conversations With a Seven-Year-Old

This is so funny! My 9 year old boy also uses cologne before bedtime..and always more than it’s needed, haha! Also- I love him with uncut, long, covid hair and I don’t want him to grow up ever!

I was teaching my just-turned-8 year old daughter how to play MASH. We were making up options for my imaginary future and she was HARSH in the most hilarious ways.
My future hobby: “holding up Trump signs” LOLOLOLOL (she knows we are not Trump supporters, and was totally trolling me)
My future pet: “A poisonous snake that doesn’t like people”
My future spouse: “An old man with so many germs”

Oh my goodness, it was so hilarious!!! But then I catch sight of her little round cheek from the side and it pinches up my heart in the way only growing children can.

Spot on on 7 year olds! Mine said the other day (he wanted to be left alone at the playground for a few hours!!): “Mom, i’m basically a Teenager. I even had my Pimple already!” haha

My boys are the same ages as yours and I feel the same way. My 7 yr old tries so hard to keep up with his 10 yr old brother and be “like a grown up” that I think it’s happening to fast. Then he does something silly and his dimples come out. Melts me every time. Lately he’s wanted to spend more time one on one with me. So we started playing catch. It’s been so fun to chat and catch and be together in the moment.

My daughter was explaining to my little grandson how people and dinosaurs did not live on the earth at the same time. He says . . . . What about Grammy?
Ouch!!

Joanna, if it’s any consolation my boyfriend is a grown man and he still has a sprig of hair like that if it gets too long :) so you may get lucky with Anton!

My 10-year-old sister recently asked me, “Why do you always have to explain everything?” I told her that since I’m a teacher it’s my natural instinct!
She still lets me tuck her into bed every time I visit though ♥️

My five year old has been around when I’ve watched the news this past year so she has picked up on my opinion of Donald Trump. The other night we were playing Wise Owl (a more female-friendly name for Old Maid) when her dad won and then my very disappointed daughter threw a bit of a tantrum over losing. She ran back into the room and we asked her what was wrong and she furrowed her brow, crossed her arms and huffed “I’m being like Donald Trump!” Aka a sore loser.

Ohhh, that rumpled hair got me too! My kids are currently rocking grown-out pandemic haircuts (i.e. their Dad did it), and my 5yo now has a mullet straight out of the early eighties that kinda melts my heart every time I look at him!

Mom. I just need to get a liiittle bit taller, and then I can marry you.

Aww, I’d love that! But what about Dad?

…he can…go to the dump. Or take a nap.

I love stories about Angon, he is so cool and cute! My husband has this hair thing too. We have a photo of him as a fat smiling baby with exactly same piece of hair sticking from his head as it still does every morning after 50 years.

Thanks, Joanna, for these sweet posts. They are some of my favorites. The other day while wiping herself, my two year old declared, “My vagina is not a sammich.” No idea where that came from but I was cracking up.

My other recent favorite is “I love you too much.” Conflating I love you too and I love you so much. Sometimes if I ask her how much she loves me or daddy, she’ll respond “two!”

Picking my daughter up from school, one of her teachers left with us the other day. As we walked down the block she suggested my five year old tell me about the apple store. My daughter shook her head. So the teacher explained that she had broken her phone and was feeling sad about it when my daughter came up and said, “Megan! Did you know there is this store called the apple store? But they don’t sell apples; all they sell is phones.”

My three and a half year old when I told her all we have is regular tap water: I won’t drink that! It’s old fashioned.”

Time to wean off the soda stream, I suppose.

Today I was wanting to take a picture of my 6yr old dressed up in a fancy red dress complete with red wings and superhero mask, she says to me “No pictures. No autographs.” haha well ok then!

My son likes to say he never did something. Scarfed down a bowl of oatmeal, but I put oatmeal in front of him the next day and hear, “No! I neber eat oatmeal!” He does this all the time!

My sons are both in their early 20s, so we’re well past that stage. But they still things that can just move the earth for me, like: “Mom, I can’t wait for you to meet her.”

Cutie! That is a cowlick – if he’s anything like me, he will spend a lot of time as a teenager trying to smooth/tame it and then sometime in his 20’s he’ll admit defeat :)

My husband and I don’t have any kids, but my husband is very young-at-heart and is constantly having water fights/snowball fights with the kids in our condo complex. They actually ring the doorbell and ask if he can come outside and play (he’s 45). We found out how unaware they are of his actual age when one of the boys said to him “I’m telling your MOM!”, which they did. To me.

We were talking over dinner about what time of day we were born. My 14 yr old was born at 3.33am… so my 7yr old asked “when was I born”, I said “at about 7/ 7.30pm …”.. she did the bedtime maths and replied “ so did I have to go straight to bed?” ?

It’s going to be Mother’s Day in the U.K. on Sunday, so I’ve been prepping my kids to make sure I actually get a present this year. My 5 year old says “I’m going to get you an apron, flowers and a beautiful flower dress”. That’s his go to present for the women in his life.

At bedtime, my 6 year-old will hold on to me really tightly as I’m trying to extricate myself from his bedroom, and will say, “I’ve got you in the Mommy trap!”
Another great one from a couple years ago – “I can’t eat that (leftover dinner from the day before)! It has a bit too much yesterday in it!”

When his food has too much of a kick, my three year old says, “I don’t like it. It makes me spicy!” We’re never going to correct this one.

I am always kicking myself for not writing down more when they were younger, they were so funny then. They’re now 11 & nearly 13 and what I love about this age are their conversations ranging from deep to absurd in a matter of minutes. Maybe I should record them for posterity. And we watch comedians together! Certain punch lines have become running gags in our household which I love. My son recently asked me if I ever had any regrets about having kids. But I can honestly say I never have because having these wonderful humans made life so much better !