Get me out of here!

The other evening, Jonah was FURIOUS with Ken and me.  I can't remember what the catalyst was but certainly it was some grave injustice we heaped upon him.

Full of the righteous indignation common to the tween set, he loudly proclaimed, "I am about ready to SAH-KEED!"

What?!

When we asked him what he meant, he responded,
 "Don't you people know ANYTHING?  Don't you even know HISTORY?  . . . SAH-KEED!
Do I have to spell it out? . . . S-E-C-E-D-E!"

OH!  The mood was NOT lightened by my bursting out laughing!  It was just so funny!  His "declaration of independence" was thwarted by mispronouncing a word he's probably only seen in writing.

And, by the way, I love that he knows about this chapter in American History and used this term more or less accurately.

I hate to break it to him that most teenagers want to "secede" from their families.