It started with rabbit child. Hasenkind is a picture book for the little ones. It gets its hair washed and the child is encouraged to help with it. An empty tub is waiting, and the reader and the child have to call out: “Haaasenkind!” Zack, it’s already sitting in the tub. It goes without saying that soon every bath was called for the Haaasenkind.
Bobo, the cute dormice from Switzerland, soon found its way into family slang. Whoever just closed their eyes had to expect that someone would say the sentence that comes at the end of every Bobo story: “Bobo has already fallen asleep.” Later, Michel from Lönneberga was the justification for all sorts of smacking and slurping noises at the table. In the book, Michel replies to his mother’s question as to whether he has to slurp like this: “Otherwise you wouldn’t know it was soup!” A glass of water was then quickly exed, slammed onto the table and shouted: “Huh!” – a legendary habit of little pirate Captain Sharkey and his friends.
Confusion when one day the children were wriggling under the sofa. “Will you help us find it?” they asked. When asked what, it was: “To Atlantis!” The little dragon Coconut had already found the sunken city.
At the moment, however, magazines are en vogue that mum and dad still like to read: comics. Since then, the kitchen has sometimes heard: “Maaamaaa! When will we have wild boar?” (Asterix and Obelix). It’s also harmless if “Knuff, boom, zosch” is suddenly called out to accompany a fight between siblings. When it suddenly said the other day: “Shut up, Everell” and “I’ll kill him, I’ll kill him!” (Lucky Luke), the dad seemed to be starting to have concerns and wanted to address the issue. “I’ll beat you up!” was the answer (Obelix).
Didn’t the brilliant Ludwig Wittgenstein say: “The limits of my languages are the limits of my world”? As nice as it is when the world of the little ones grows big – the next few evenings it might be better to read something else. rabbit child!