Benjamin was saying "crocodile! crocodile!" in the bathroom but all I could see was a triceratops. I scanned the shlef (SPECIAL KIND OF SHELF) below the morror (LARGE DEEP MIRROR) and spotted a tiny, bright green maggotty toy 'crocodile', about the size of a walnut. "Goodnight crocodile," I said, and patted its softly contoured bumps.
Though anatomically innacurate, somehow it conveyed an essential crocodiley essence to the 3 year old.
At age 3, a child can, among other things:
speak in sentences
be independent to primary care giver
easily learn new words, places and people's names
anticipate routines
be toilet trained
play with toys in imaginative ways
attempt to sing in-time with songs
and
recognise crocodiles
HOW VAGUE DOES A CROCODILE SHAPED IN MODELLING CLAY OR SKETCHED HAVE TO BE IN ORDER FOR BENNIE NOT TO RECOGNISE THE BEAST?
I'm going to try some really crappy sketches on him later on.
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