Comments on: the tadpole interviews #1

By: petite

petite — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:04:50 +0000

It’s a scary thrift shop toy, bought by the beloved nanny. Unsurprisingly, she prefers playing games on my MacBook…

By: parisian cowboy

parisian cowboy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:51:22 +0000

Where did you find that thing, hum, computer ? Does it come from Russia ?

By: Viviane

Viviane — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:42:07 +0000

How lovely of you to post an audio clip of the two of you.

I put my stepdaughter on my computer when she was 7. She’s ask where a letter was, and I’d point to a key. She found the Petz community and was very active in that. I think her first blog was when she was 10.

Now she types around 105 and is off to the Univ. of Leeds in the Fall.

By: PJ Carz

PJ Carz — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:58:12 +0000

Thanks for posting another Tadpole picture with sound. She is quite glamorous, you realize, even with those brows furrowed in concentration or consternation, whichever.

I’m content in my life with my decision not to have children (it’s too late to turn back now!) and yet, once in a while, I meet a friend’s child or grandchild who melts my heart, and gives me the fleeting “I wonder …” feeling. Your Tadpole is one of those children.

Good for you on getting her the ghastly cake you knew she would adore. Good mummy!

By: rivergirlie

rivergirlie — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:35:06 +0000

love the way she gets her reflexive verbs and preceding direct object pronouns straight from french.

By: Sally Lomax

Sally Lomax — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:10:36 +0000

Happy Birthday Tadpole!

By: Milk & 2 Sugars

Milk & 2 Sugars — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:24:19 +0000

Whenever you post a photo of Tadpole, I find myself wondering what Mr Frog looks like.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:49:45 +0000

Her voice’s so cute !

By: tillylil

tillylil — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:47 +0000

I wonder what her blog name for you will be?

By: LostInBrittany

LostInBrittany — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:55:54 +0000

The thing that amazes me is how she speaks à good English !

I’m Spanish, and the mother of my tadpole is Spanish too. My tadpole is 5 years old, and while she speaks a wonderful French and jokes about my thick accent, she isn’t able to speak Spanish as fluently as Tadpole speaks English. She understands it perfectly, but when I speak to her in Spanish, she prefers to answer in French. It has been like that since she began school, she only makes an effort to speak Spanish when she speaks to grandparents.

How have you done to make your Tadpole speak English?