A noun is a person, place or thing. Verb, that's what's happening. Unpack your adjectives. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here. Watch enough Schoolhouse Rock, and not only are pre-fab MadLibs templates easily completed, but a motivated 8-year-old boy can manufacture his own. Too time consuming to determine the parts of speech needed? Always a work around...
Darren: "What's your name?"
Mommy: "Mom."
Darren: "If something isn't new, it's______"
Mommy: "Old?"
Darren (with mild disgust at my facile response): "What's the opposite of 'isn't used'...."
Mommy: "Used?"
Darren: "That's right. Now, a one-letter word other than I."
Mommy: "A?"
Darren (with faith restored in my intellect): "What do you use to dry yourself off with?"
Mommy: "Towel."
[Uproarious laughter from both twins]
Darren: "Another word for also."
Mommy (with confidence): "Too."
Darren (with renewed disgust at my facile responses): "Noooo. Like combining two things."
Mommy (with a divine vision of Conjunction Junction): "And?"
Darren: "YES! What's the opposite of pee-d?"
Mommy (fully aware of the expected answer): "Held it? Didn't pee?"
Darren: "M-o-o-o-m...."
Mommy: "Okay, poo-ed."
[Uproarious laughter from both twins]
Darren: "What's the opposite of off?"
Mommy: "On."
Darren (beside himself): "What does 'i-t' spell?"
Mommy: "It."
[Uproarious laughter from both twins...and Mom.]
*Morning text corrections made with Darren's able-memoried assistance.
-CRL
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Your kiddos give me so much to look forward to ;)
(I have MadLibs in the drawer in my coffee table! Love em!)
awesome. that is creativity right there:)
Uproarious laughter from MandyE, too...thanks! :) And I hope that one makes it into the scrapbook somewhere!
Too funny. I agree, that definitely deserves to be in a scrapbook. LOL
omgoodness! that is just too funny!!! Where do they come up with this stuff!?!?
My two are already entering the stage of potty humor...oh boy!
Very creative mind-flow going there.
oh very nice....I am laughing too!
HAH! too funny :)
Don't you just love giving "wrong" answers...just to see what they'll say? ;)
Love it, C!
Haha, kids are hysterical! Their age is so much fun :)
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