Here's a revealing conversation I had with my 4-year-old daughter M-, when I absentmindedly vented my brain of the potentially hazardous buildup of Christmas songs stuck in it:
Me: "I don't want a lot for Christmas / ..."
M- (interrupting with an important point, while gesturing slightly to herself): I do.
Me: Oh you do, do you??
M-: Yes. Do YOU want a lot for Christmas?
Me (really overselling my angelic virtue): No. I just want everybody to be happy.
M- (brow furrowed in earnest reflection): ... Well, I want a lot for Christmas.
You may enjoy my previous M- conversations, (7YO son) D- conversations, and (wife) J- conversations.
2 comments:
Honesty. She knows she will be happy if she gets a lot for Christmas so then you will be happy, too. See? It's all good.
And I bet she got a lot for Christmas, too. Spread over days. Does she know her wish came true?
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