When kids give you advice...
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Hahaha, all this time I thought "lollies" were lollipops. Melting hard candy on vegetables does sound truly disgusting. But it's quite good with marshmallows!
Yes.
Lollipops are lollipops and everything else that isn't chocolate is a lolly. Except for candycanes. They're candy. And fairy floss, that's not a lolly its... floss? But you guys call that cotton candy.
I love that as of the past week nearly every thread has turned to food.
Lollipops are lollipops and everything else that isn't chocolate is a lolly. Except for candycanes. They're candy. And fairy floss, that's not a lolly its... floss? But you guys call that cotton candy.
I love that as of the past week nearly every thread has turned to food.
Back to the original point of the thread though, just as I was typing that Sasha gave me a 'wonderful' piece of advice.
Thursday-Friday was Beltane in the southern hemisphere, which is a seasonal festival, we usually celebrate our holidays on the weekend they fall closest to, just to make it easier. Anyway, something that some married pagans do on Beltane is renew handfasting vows, which are the vows you make a year and one day prior to your wedding, which we do, which involves standing over a (very small) fire and having our hands bound to each other's. So we are doing that tonight and Sasha just came up to me and said
"My teacher said that fire can burn you"
"Yes it can"
"Oh, I think you should make a drawing of a fire then instead of real fire, that would be smarter. I'm not going to do it for you though, I'm very busy today."
He is having his birthday party this afternoon, but somehow I don't think he's the one who is going to be busy as such, more likely me.
Thursday-Friday was Beltane in the southern hemisphere, which is a seasonal festival, we usually celebrate our holidays on the weekend they fall closest to, just to make it easier. Anyway, something that some married pagans do on Beltane is renew handfasting vows, which are the vows you make a year and one day prior to your wedding, which we do, which involves standing over a (very small) fire and having our hands bound to each other's. So we are doing that tonight and Sasha just came up to me and said
"My teacher said that fire can burn you"
"Yes it can"
"Oh, I think you should make a drawing of a fire then instead of real fire, that would be smarter. I'm not going to do it for you though, I'm very busy today."
He is having his birthday party this afternoon, but somehow I don't think he's the one who is going to be busy as such, more likely me.
Oh now Ash has reminded me of another one of Sasha's pieces of 'advice'.
The way retirement funds work here is that we have mandatory superannuation funds that employers have to make contributions towards in addition to our salary each pay cycle. There are hundreds of different super funds but honestly they're all pretty much the same.
There was an ad on TV about Virgin Super, which of course is the virgin company working their way into yet another market.
"Mum, do you have a superannuation?"
"Yes"
"You should give it to Virgin Super"
"Sasha, what does 'superannuation' mean?"
"It's really good annuations"
The way retirement funds work here is that we have mandatory superannuation funds that employers have to make contributions towards in addition to our salary each pay cycle. There are hundreds of different super funds but honestly they're all pretty much the same.
There was an ad on TV about Virgin Super, which of course is the virgin company working their way into yet another market.
"Mum, do you have a superannuation?"
"Yes"
"You should give it to Virgin Super"
"Sasha, what does 'superannuation' mean?"
"It's really good annuations"
You're lucky to have a kid like that. We should always be open that sometimes we can also learn from our kids. Good day!cybele said:
That's funny, and I tell my kids all the time to watch what they say and do because one day their kid's will do the same thing.