On a sunny day in summer this may be a common question to hear your 5 year old ask....but hearing it whilst snuggled at bedtime reading his story kinda threw me! He was pointing at a closed bracket symbol in the book and asking if it was the 99! Huh? I explained about brackets and how the words in the middle tell you a little extra information about what you're reading about when he asked where the 99's were?
I was very confused.....then he offered a touch of clarification when first he pointed out a question mark and then to some double inverted comma's at the start of a phrase I was reading and informed me that 'there were the 66's'....just as it registered he also clocked the elusive 99's at the end of the phrase.....
It's amazing how the small mind works. They really do say it as they see it!
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