The wonders of living in a "literal world"...

This morning my husband was, well, just acting a bit different than his usual.  We tend to say he is "off" on those days, and today fit well.  That made him late for work, as he just could not get it together.  

Because he was late for work, we opted to drive in to work together, and drive our daughter to school (we cannot afford the parking downtown except for special occasions so normally take the bus)  

In order to get my daughter out the door a bit early, so we could drive, my husband tells her, "Honey, you need to cook, we are driving in today and Mom and I are going to drop you off."  She responds "Oh, cool!  Yay!"  

About 4 minutes later she says, "I won't even cook anything too hot for you guys, I do not want to burn myself."  My husband says, "No, honey, I mean, you need to hurry."  Well, I guess that went in one ear and out the other.  I looked at him, and said, "Why did you say cook?"  He says, "The wrong word came out.  I meant jam."

We got into the truck to leave and my daughter says, "I am so excited to cook for you and Momma."  I look at my husband and say, "Oh my goodness, why oh why did you choose cook?"  He explains to me, I was thinking jam, like hurry, and well, a major process of making jam is cooking it, so the word cook came out.

My daughter says, "Wait, I do not get to cook?"

I say, "No, honey, you can help me cook dinner." (thank goodness it is a dinner she can help with)  "But Daddy meant, cook, like hurry."  She says, "Huh?"

Blink, blink...

ROFL...I've never heard "jam" before used like that...

Actually "get cooking" can mean "hurry up" or "get moving".

Oh yeah, I know, but explain that to my 8 year old who is creating Gourmet menus in her head for dinner!  LOL!

Even though it was a bit of a mix up in words, I think it's cool that your daughter is excited about cooking.  Probably would be a good opportunity to cook some things together.  I remember really enjoying helping my mum with the cooking.  Tuna Mornay and Bread and Butter Pudding night was the best. There was bread to break up for the Bread and Butter Pudding and cheese to grate (and eat when mum wasn't looking) for the Tuna Mornay.

She loves to cook.  She is very into science, and I think that the science part of cooking is her main interest.  Most kids want to watch cartoons, she wants to watch FoodTV!

I don't often lol... but right now i am grinning amusedly.

smiling     ----    still smiling  ----

I heard a story today about a 5 year old who complained that her are was really hurting.  Her grandmother said, "why?" and she replied, "I think I need to punch somebody and it would feel better."

that was not my best English...she was complaining that her arm was really hurting.

Cute story .

This is not as good, but it is an example of my son's literal thinking. It's a math problem from 3rd grade:

My son's answer: $0 (nothing). She only babysits evenings and nights, not during days.

very cute outsidelookinNin

I have heard the expression 'what's cooking' as if to say what's going on / happening.
I don't know of the term 'jaming' meaning to hurry. Must be an american term.