A story:
Adi was doing homework on subtraction with double-digit numbers. I came to check her work and saw that a few problems were wrong, and helped her redo them.
A few minutes later I check in again.
Me: Adi, how's your homework going?
Her: Good. N and D are helping me.
Me: Honey, N and D can't really do this kind of math. (On a good day, N and D can count to 20.)
Her: Nooo, they aren't doing the homework. I'm doing the homework.
Me: Oh. OK.
Her: They're just checking my answers for me to be sure I got it right.
A danger:
So, very exciting news: a friend of Viggy's is engaged.
More exciting news: N and D's ganenet (early childhood teacher) is engaged.
Mind-blowingly awesome news: they are engaged to each other! Yay!
But there's one problem, and that's N.
See, to N, her ganenet is the closest thing she knows to a Higher Power. To her, whatever Ganenet says is like what God says, except way more important.
And now, said ganenet is going to be a bride, which to N (and A, and D) is by far the coolest thing that anyone can be ever (I don't know where they get it. Don't blame me, when I was their age I wanted to be a paramedic who could also beat up bad guys and talk to animals, like a normal kindergarten girl).
So... what happens when N finds out that the person she most admires is about to become the thing she most worships? It'd be like finding out that the president is also the messiah is also Batman. I'm not sure a 4-year-old's mind can safely contain that kind of awesome.
(But seriously - I'm very happy to hear the news, and I'm sure that after an hour or so of hysteria N will be just fine, with no lasting effects other than making Ganenet and Groom-to-be the latest characters in the never-ending game of Princess Wedding that she and Adi and their friends have going on.)
Adi was doing homework on subtraction with double-digit numbers. I came to check her work and saw that a few problems were wrong, and helped her redo them.
A few minutes later I check in again.
Me: Adi, how's your homework going?
Her: Good. N and D are helping me.
Me: Honey, N and D can't really do this kind of math. (On a good day, N and D can count to 20.)
Her: Nooo, they aren't doing the homework. I'm doing the homework.
Me: Oh. OK.
Her: They're just checking my answers for me to be sure I got it right.
A danger:
So, very exciting news: a friend of Viggy's is engaged.
More exciting news: N and D's ganenet (early childhood teacher) is engaged.
Mind-blowingly awesome news: they are engaged to each other! Yay!
But there's one problem, and that's N.
See, to N, her ganenet is the closest thing she knows to a Higher Power. To her, whatever Ganenet says is like what God says, except way more important.
And now, said ganenet is going to be a bride, which to N (and A, and D) is by far the coolest thing that anyone can be ever (I don't know where they get it. Don't blame me, when I was their age I wanted to be a paramedic who could also beat up bad guys and talk to animals, like a normal kindergarten girl).
So... what happens when N finds out that the person she most admires is about to become the thing she most worships? It'd be like finding out that the president is also the messiah is also Batman. I'm not sure a 4-year-old's mind can safely contain that kind of awesome.
(But seriously - I'm very happy to hear the news, and I'm sure that after an hour or so of hysteria N will be just fine, with no lasting effects other than making Ganenet and Groom-to-be the latest characters in the never-ending game of Princess Wedding that she and Adi and their friends have going on.)
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