I don’t have the energy to write but watching an couple of episodes of reality tv featuring children does make me wish I could write more about TNBT baby Kitty exhibiting the wild chaoticness of the average four year old.
Like, imagine Kitty going to Reception and Jane has spent hours and hours teaching her to hold a pen and sing the alphabet song and write her name and stuff- standard stuff. And Kitty has enjoyed learning it and been really proud and excited to show it off, and then Jane picking her up at hometime and the Reception teacher gently asking that someone work with Kitty at home to help her learn her letters.
Jane, proudly, tells the teacher that she knows them.
The teacher firmly tells Jane she clearly doesn’t.
Turns out Kitty has decided to just pretend not to know her alphabet and has been substituting random song lyrics to the tune of the alphabet song.
(She has also decided to pretend not to know how to count for reasons known only to herself. Even once she counts more normall,y she displays a complete aversion to the number nine and goes straight from eight to ten.)
Then she won’t do up her coat at playtime because she ‘can’t do up buttons’.
The teacher suggests Jane get her a coat without buttons.
Jane wearily explains she CAN do her buttons. Kitty interjects that she CAN’T do them up, not at all, she can’t honestly! (It turns out this is because she wants a Paddington-bear style duffle coat with toggles instead.)
Kitty also goes through a phase of spelling her name with a ‘Curly C, not a Kicking K’ because she objects to the idea that any part of her name is kicking anything.
