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Baby Jesus Transcript


 
MOTHER: ((reading)) 'Then they returned to Nazareth where the boy Jesus grew up.'
LYNNE: Is that him growed up? ((pointing to picture of Jesus as a baby))
MOTHER: That's baby Jesus.
LYNNE: Is he growed up?
MOTHER: No, he's a baby.
LYNNE: You say...is he...Mummy is he growed up?
MOTHER: What, now?
LYNNE: Mm.
MOTHER: Oh, he's up, he's up, he's up in the sky.
LYNNE: Who?
MOTHER: Jesus.
LYNNE: How?
MOTHER: Mm.
LYNNE: Is that him a baby? (( points to picture in book))
MOTHER: That was when he was a little baby, yes, but that was a long, long, long, long, long, long time ago.
LYNNE: Mum, why isn't he a baby any more?
MOTHER: Well, you were a baby once but you're not a baby now, are you? Mummy was a baby once, but she's not a baby anymore, is she? She's a Mummy now.
LYNNE: No, you're a little girl.
MOTHER: I'm not a little girl.
LYNNE: You were.
MOTHER: I was once, a little girl, just like you, but I'm big now, and I'm a Mummy, I'm your Mummy.
LYNNE: How did you get big?
MOTHER: You grow.
LYNNE: How?
MOTHER: When you were a little baby, you were only about that big ((mother holds hands apart)), but look at you now...You couldn't speak, all you could do was cry.
LYNNE: And I could say 'Ga-Ga'.

Transcript from:  Tizard, B., & Hughes, M. (1984). Young children learning. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
 


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