A Play on Words

I often sit staring at a word and thinking about its meaning and what other things I could do with the letters that have been used. How many other connecting words are hidden in the main or parent word. With pen and paper in hand I jot down all the other words I can find and try to connect them with the parent word and that is when the fun begins.

Please feel free to add any you can think of, not just to my parent words as I call them, but if you find a good parent word then please share it with us.

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Paternal – meaning like a father / related through the father

Pater – meaning father - origin Latin - a rather informal British name for ones father, now out dated.

When I view the word PATERNAL I think of the red TAPE involved when one becomes a father. There is a PAT on the back for a job well done, laughter as to how the TRAP was set and how one is now well and truly caught in the NET.

As one starts to LEARN about being a PARENT it is hard to imagine the LATE nights and exhaustion that so easily become PAR for the course. To be a PART of a child life, to wipe away a TEAR, to bounce a baby on one’s LAP. To sit together quietly in REAL time and share a favorite TALE.

LATER, to PANT along beside the first bicycle ride as a small voice calls out, “come on PA.” AREN’T these the things that make paying the RENT or the RENTAL of the same movie five weeks in a row worthwhile?

We may RANT about missing an afternoon NAP, or hair falling out and the signs of a bald PATE but somehow we seem to hurt when we are APART.

As we guide our children down life’s LANE we endeavour to keep them safe from the tragedies of life, things like RAPE that can so easily cause a flickering of the TAPER of their lives.

To follow one’s PATERNAL instincts is often all a father needs to do to achieve PARENTAL perfection!

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