I'll Huff and I'll Puff..

I keep trying to remember the kinds of childrens' stories you can tell off the top of your head. But there seems to be a lot of sinister detail in everything from Hansel and Gretel to The 3 Little Pigs, and I have boys who are super-vivid dreamers. If you read them Aliens in Underpants at bedtime you'd better be prepared to go on alien watch at 3am, so wolves huffing and puffing and wicked step-mothers are all out. Anyway. I was making up my own version of the 3 Little Pigs during bath-time and The Boy's imagination was going haywire and he was getting VERY animated at the idea that he has a Mama who can Make Up Stories In Her Head All By Her Own Self. And then he declared himself to have a brilliant idea, and uttered this sentence, which I ADORE for how perfectly it captures the essence of what he sees as his parents' strengths:

"You and Dad could teach us everything you know! So Dad could teach us how to drive cars fast and you could teach us how to read stories! Wouldn't that be a brilliant idea?"

I concurred, and then asked what he could teach me in return, and there followed the most lovely monologue about all the many things he knows about, including trucks and Wall-E and Woody and aeroplanes and cars and running really fast. So that's settled then. We're going to spend the rest of our lives teaching each other everything we know. Not too sure what he thinks I've been doing all this time up until now though?