Sentencing Has Commenced

Up till now, he’s been babbling: lots of words, phrases, fragments. The only sentence-like things he’s uttered has been phrases he’s picked up wholesale, like song lyrics (“I like you”) and titles. But yesterday, our boy strung together a sentence for the first time. Was it an expression of maternal love, of deep philosophical import, of  faith in the future? After a fashion. Because the sentence was:

“I like pizza.”

Well, don’t you?

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About Christopher

Christopher Bonanos is a senior editor at New York magazine, where he works on arts and urban-affairs coverage (and a few other things). He and his wife live smack in the middle of midtown Manhattan, where their son was born in March 2009. Both parents are very happy, and very tired.

2 thoughts on “Sentencing Has Commenced

  1. That sounds like a profound statement that will take him far in life. Mine recently pointed at the television and said, “That is a television.”

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