How happy are you when you see a tough, leather-jacketed, tattooed man running across the street grimly – with pink dolls and expansive stuffed animals in his arms. Being a parent sometimes brings tasks and responsibilities that you never dared to dream of before. And because children are usually quite persistent in their hobbies, over time they become experts in their own niches – and the parents are forced to do so with them.
Interest in dinosaurs, to be honest, wasn’t very strong in the family just a few years ago. But when the daughter, then about four, began to deal with the extinct land vertebrates, terms like deinonychus, velociraptor or iguanodon buzzed through the house. Granny was mercilessly corrected when a dinosaur’s name was read incorrectly. And no, the one with the horn is not called Parolophus, but Para-saurolophus.
As much as one tried to bring up the children without role clichés – the first son then dedicated himself to the excavators at the age of two. Even in the day care center, he taught everyone else who wanted to know or not, about the differences between wheeled and crawler excavators, compact loaders and hydraulic excavators. Instead of going to the playground, we went to the construction site, and if there was an excavator somewhere, the little one wasn’t far. For hours, grandpa had to wait with him in front of the construction site, it could rain or snow – excavators, excavators, excavators.
Who is surprised that the smallest of the bunch now says “Baga!” as the first word. released. The siblings’ experts don’t always accept the “Baga”, which is actually applied to everything that can be driven at the moment. “No, that’s a wheel loader!” they say boldly. But because the reptiles and construction machinery area has slowly been grazed, the older ones have now looked for something new: sea creatures and volcanoes.
Already in the morning you can hear calls from the children’s room: “Mom, is Mauna Loa still erupting?” Or dad is asked: “How long does Yellowstone sleep?” Parents do not always know the answer to the questions. Yes, actually they quite rarely know one. Fortunately, there are clever books that can help. And it can only be a matter of days before the little one will say “Lava”.