I had an eye-opener conversation with the Kid and her buddy, let’s call her Doey.*
Come with me, inside the mind of the six year old…
In their 1st grade class, they had just decorated little gingerbread houses (graham cracker, actually) and were back at our house nibbling on various sugary paraphernalia, when Doey noticed the Kid had not one, but two Peep’s Christmas trees on her house.
“Heeeyyyyyy, how’d you get two trees?? We’re only supposed to get one tree each.” She obviously assumed the Kid had swiped one, which I naturally also assumed.
We waited for the confession. Or, for the really lame lying.
“Well, Miss Teacher* had one left, so I asked if I could have it,” said the Kid. *smacks gumdrops in mouth*
“I guess sometimes if you ask for something nicely, you might get it, huh?” I said all motherly, nodding slowly and making eye contact with them. Get the lesson here, young-uns?
“Well, I just beg to get what I want,” said Doey.
*insert sound of record needle scratching vinyl*
“Oh??” I said. Let’s just delve a little further into this confession, shall we?
“Is that what you do with your mom and dad?”
“Yeah. All the time.” Doey bats eyelashes.
Your mom is gonna LOVE this.
“Do you have to beg for days and days and then they finally give in?” I asked. I’m trying to work with ya, parents, worn down by relentless begging been there done that…).
“No. I just beg and I get it right then,” Doey said.
And while silently chuckling, honestly, all I could think was, has some other mom on this island already had this exact conversation with my kid…?
*Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
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Kid sounds like grammy already.