Children Are Renaming Things The Way They See Them And It’s So Delightfully Pure
By Evan Brechtel for percolately.com
My friend’s 5-year-old just saw a crow and called it a “Halloween eagle.”
And a child shall lead us. It is known. This is the new name for the bird-formally-known-as-crow. You know what to do, @MerriamWebster.
A friend’s 5yo was wailing about seeing “flamingo witches” after watching the National Geographic channel. Took a little while to figure out she was talking about vultures.
A friend’s 5 yr old saw a rhino and called it a “Battle Unicorn”. Can we let 5 yr olds christen new species please?
My daughter re-named earmuffs “snow headphones” and it stuck over here.
A kindergartner told me she liked my hand socks…gloves obviously. But now forever hand socks.
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