The world according to my kids

Kids have a fascinating sense of logic. We don’t have to teach them to think outside the box because when they think, there is no box. Which makes them so fun to talk to all the time.

It’s only when they get educated that this creative thinking gets beaten out of them and we force their brains into tiny boxes. We’re all for education and science and linear, logical thinking, but we also constantly make it a point not to squash their creative expression.

 

While playing hide and seek…

Kirsten: Ok ready.

Tru: Ready or not, here I come!

Tru: *finds her squatting behind a door* Mei mei, I see you!

Kirsten: I’m closing my eyes, you cannot see me.

Tru: Yes, I can still see you, you’re right here.

Kirsten: Ok, you must close your eyes, then you cannot see me.

 

On love and other stuff…

Tru: I love you mei mei!

Kirsten: Um, I don’t love you.

Tru: When you don’t love me, I will still love you ok (it’s something we say to them all the time, and it’s so sweet that he picked it up)

Kirsten: Ok fine…I love you.

Tru: So you must share the iPhone with me.

Kirsten: NO it’s mine!!

Tru: If you never share, then I don’t love you anymore.

Kirsten: I thought you said you love me just now?

Tru: Ok, I still love you, but you must share.

 

Monsters, Inc…

Tru: Quick, let’s hide, the moster is coming! (the monster being daddy)

Kirsten: I will protect you, I have big muscles.

Tru: No, you’re too small, I think we better hide.

Me: But what will you do if the monster comes in and finds us?

Tru: I will fight the monster with my sword.

Kirsten: If the monster comes in, I will say DON’T BITE ME IT IS VERY PAINFUL YOU KNOW. Then I will cry.

Me: Ok Tru, you take plan A, I’ll hang back here with Kirsten and do the crying thing.