To think this should not be so controversial?

Peter - of course! Who did they think he went eith??????

Well how does the line go?

"Peter and his dad went to the beach together...with a mystery person."?


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Reciprocity... if Peter went to the beach with his dad then of course his dad went to the beach with Peter. He may have also gone with other people but that information is not disclosed so the only definite is that Dad went with Peter.

Can you reproduce the text on here?

Develoomentally 5/6 year olds are just beginning to understand reciprocity. eg if you're my son, I'm your parent etc

Huh?
Can you explain further?

Well unless the Dad in the question isn't the Dad in the story then he went with Peter.
I guess maybe the 6 year old is hearing the question "who did Dad go to the beach with" and assuming it means their Dad. Not Peters Dad.

Maybe Peter was secretly tracking Dad because he didn't believe his claim about going to work all day? So Peter went with Dad but Dad didn't know he was with Peter?

Or maybe the answer is "someone who didn't care about skin cancer, or they would have advised Dad to put on sun cream"?

Can you walk him out into the garden and when you come back in, ask the rest of the family to ask who you went to the garden with? It’s been a long time since I’ve had dealings with six year olds!

Is this a homeschool thing? He is waaay overthinking!

Have a break. Ask your son "shall we go to the park together?"
Then go to the park (and try not to freeze).
Then when you get back ask your son "who did I go with?"

But tbh, if he's as stubborn as my dc is he will never back down, even when he realises you are right!

Together. Peter and his dad went together.

This is the kind of situation where I can almost convince myself that my kids are deliberately winding me up (and actually I'm almost certain that the youngest one sometimes is!).

You ask the MOST LEADING questions ever with monstrous emphasis on the relevant words, try and frame it in diffent ways, act it out, draw pictures, point at the right answer and they STILL keep looking at you at though you're demented!

Peter and Dad are lucky they're not here, that for sure - I want to slap dad's sunburn just from vicarious frustration!!

I voted YABU as I also have a six year old and I am wrong about the whole world (obvs) so it seems only fair that you should be too

Love this thread so much. Wasn't what I expected, but a happy find. Thank you, OP.

It reminds me of the ongoing discussion with the child who hates his hair getting in his eyes, but won't have it cut. Obviously a clip, band, bobble etc is no good. Neither is having it cut, apparently. But it's in my eyes....

Is it a Ladybird book? If so, Jane probably went as well. Mummy stayed at home doing housework.

Ha ha, that really made me laugh.

You've got to keep a dry sense of humour at the moment.

This is the answer.

I just tried that with my ds who's 6 next month. His response was Peter. Reasoning behind his answer is that I said "Peter," a lot of times so it was easy.