Learning to say yes, er, yeah
Kids can say the darnedest things sometimes. Sometimes they say the absolutely wrong things at the wrong times. And sometimes they say something completely contrary to what they want to say without knowing what they are saying because they just haven't learned to say what they mean to say.
Take my son for example. No, don't take him. I mean, consider this about him... up until this past Monday, when he intended to say yes, he would say no. When he intended to say no, he would scream no loudly into your face until you understood that he meant no. Then on Monday life as I know it changed.
My son said "Yes" when asked a question. Whoa man, that was odd. I thought for a second the Earth had stopped spinning. Just to be sure I asked him the same question and he looked at me, smiling, and replied "Yes". Hot diggity, the boy is learning!
But then something happened the boy did not intend. The boy learned almost immediately to say "Yeah". WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
Sure as sheep are white, this evening I asked him something and he replied "Yeah".
If ever there was a challenge to the theory of evolution, this is it. He went from not knowing "Yes" to knowing it to growing out of it in a day. At that rate, if we really did come from monkeys, all the monkeys in the world right now would be astrophysicists or something like that.
And they would all be saying "Yeah".
