Things I Never Said as a Five-Year-Old

Growing up as a TCK (Third Culture Kid) gives you a different perspective on lots of things. When I was 7, I thought North Carolina was a far-away place. These kids do, too, but that's because for them it really is! 


Not only are these kids TCKs, but they're also growing up in an era of amazing technology. They've never known life without touch screens or cell phones or flat-screen HDTVs. Combine those two factors, and the result is that we are constantly amazed at the things that come out of their mouths. So, I made a little list of things I'm certain I didn't say when I was their age.

What Did You Say?

• That cloud looks like Mt. Kilimanjaro. (Lee Anna, 7, looking at the clouds one night last week)
• We’re playing airport. I’m the security guard.(Lee Anna, 7, while playing with a friend in America who probably had no idea what she was talking about)
• I want to go back to Kenya. (Sawyer, 5, this October)
• Hey look! I see the pyramids! (Both kids, multiple times all around the city)
• But Mom, I don’t want to go play on the roof again! (Sawyer, 5, this year)
• I think i need a frappuccino. (Sawyer, not quite 3, in the Atlanta airport walking past Starbucks)
• Can’t you just google it? I think the computer would know. (Lee Anna, 6, helping Mom answer a question)
• Mom, what’s a pine cone? (Lee Anna, 6, during a homeschool lesson)
• Look at all those tanks! (Sawyer, 4, driving to the airport during the revolution)
• I want to ride a camel this time. (Sawyer, 5, on a recent outing to the pyramids)
• The princess travelled to Libya. (Sawyer, 5, tonight at supper. We were going around the table making up a story, one sentence at a time. When it was Sawyer’s turn, the princess had just left on a journey, and he said that she was going to Libya.) (I’m pretty sure I was in 7th grade geography class the first time I heard of Libya.)
• Where my iPad? (Sarah Claire, 2, coming home from her preschool)
• crocodile.com (sawyer, 5, doing his handwriting exercise added a .com to the end)
• Those were found the same year G.G. was born. (Lee Anna, 6, looking at some of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a museum in Jordan. The date wasn’t on them, but she had learned about them in history.)(I might have been in college when I learned about the Dead Sea Scrolls.)