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This morning Sasha got up early to go with Mamma to his preschool. Being not quite awake while dressing, I noticed he put his shirt on backwards.
"Ok" he said as he took it off, checked the tag, and made sure it went in the back this time.
Then he put on his underware. Again they were backwards. I pointed it out. He said "OK" then took them off and checked for the tag to make sure it went in the back.
"You are so tired this morning," I said. "Maybe you are putting your clothes on right, but it is you who are backwards."
He looked up at me, confused for a moment. Then he looked down at himself, his underware still at his kness.
"Come on daddy." he said in the most patronizing tone imaginable. "My pee-pee is my tag," he pointed it out. "and its right where it should be. My tag is in front so I know I'm not backwards."
He proceded to get dressed by himself. I was too busy in the next room, laughing.
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Wow he's learning English so fast! Is he just picking it up at home or is he also doing some kind of EFL program? Are you doing anything to try to keep him from losing his Russian? It would be awesome to grow up speaking two languages.
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Maybe that's why he puts on his clothes backwards. He expects the tag to go in front.
You know, that is one of those stories you get to embarrass him with when he brings girlfriends home. Posts: 9871 | Registered: Aug 2001
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This is the English he's picked up from us, and talking with other kids.
Sasha claims to not remember any Russian. While this may be so, there is also a common tactic some young adopties use. They are afraid that if they speak their native tongue they will end up back in their orphanages.
We will get him into a Russian language class when we can. We've seen three of them, but none let anyone under 6 enroll.
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My niece spoke fluent Hungarian as a two year old, but no English. She wasn't adopted; just spent all day with her Great Grandmother who spoke no English; only Hungarian.
By the time she was 5, her English was perfect and she was still fluent in Hungarian, yet she refused to speak Hungarian to anyone other than her Great Grandmother. Her mother speaks Hungarian too, but she even refused to speak to her mother in Hungarian.
At eleven, she will speak in either language upon request.
Does Sasha have contact with any Russian speaking, non-English speaking people (or at least he doesn't know that they speak English)?
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Sasha was adopted last June from the city of Astrakhan in Russia. Its been a great year for us since.
We don't know anyone who speaks only Russian. He doesn't get along to well with the Russian speaking teacher, bet whether that's because she speaks Russian, or because she doesn't cave into his big brown eyes and innocent looks, I am not sure.
Raven is not my real last name. It is much more generic, which makes using it as a computer name impossible without the addition of a five digit numeral at the end.
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When my 10 yo was little he decided he was half a tiger (too much live Jungle Book) and told us that was his tail. "See I am half a tiger, I have a tail" Posts: 1132 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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