Right now, Maisie and Daphne are playing in a "tent" I made them in the living room. I moved two pieces of furniture around and attached the "roof" ie the plastic My Little Pony tablecloth... Who knew that's all it took to give me a break to do my lunch dishes and a quick post!
Actually it was never my intention to post today, with the way my home looks, I could use all my spare moments in the next month and still not be quite caught up...BUT when your child says something like what I am about to quote, one just has to share!
Like I said, I haven't evaluated this comment completely and it could be broken down and used as a teaching moment. For now though, let us just laugh at it's innocent ironic nature.
With complete pleasure with their new "game" complete with ponies, dolls and complete enthusiasm...Daphne says to me:
"Hey, Mom...we're playing that we're homeless...except we have money!"
All I can think is that she views homelessness as sort of an adventure like camping, but she knows we all talk about it with sadness in our voices and occasionally give money and food to the cause. So, here leaves her and Maisie pretending to be without a home, but still capable of buying all their wants!
Oh MY!!!
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I think it's great that your girls know about homeless people and "get it" enough. You know? Most kids have no clue.
Really, Daphne was born several decades too late...she should have been a star with Art Linkletter on "Kids Say the Darndest Things."
That is so funny Stef? My kids play the same sorts of games all the time. They'll come up to me and say, "Hello we are two orphan children. All that we own are these 4 stuffed animals. Could you spare some food?"
I think that the whole Boxcar Children type of idea really is an adventure to them.
Jill
Oops, my punctuation is off!
I meant to say that is funny Stef!
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