Friday, February 22, 2008

How you can lose your voice

When reasons and explanations with children become exhaustive, it's fun to divert a bit from the facts.

Like today's conversation I had with my eldest son.

His voice became hoarse last night, symptoms of an imminent sore throat and trouble broiling again. (Damn the hot weather!)

He asked me why his voice became like that, I said he must have lost his voice. "How did it get lost?" I said, "you must have dropped it somewhere, exactly how you like to drop your MC, school badge and what else. So careless of you, now you dropped your voice as well!"

"Huh?" Scratching his head, he queried further "How did I drop it?"

"You must have shouted too much la... Told you not to shout so much, that must have caused the voice to fell down!" *grin*

He gave a confused look and began to ponder deeply.....

Hehe.. so mean of me, huh?

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