Work Copied: Pride and Prejudice Chapter 8
I love how kids learn.
The dinner table discussion tonight was rowdy, as usual. Someone commented sarcastically about something, making exaggerated
My little sister put her cup down, wiped her grape juice mustache away, and proclaimed, “This“ (she made quotation marks with her fingers) “means she doesn’t mean what she just said.”
I laughed so hard. It’s accurate. I asked her where she learned it, and she pointed at her older brother. “Dino told me that, when we were playing in my tent.”
He grinned in the affirmative. I was proud of him for passing on that important bit of information. He, at age six, was being a teacher. In my opinion that is the best skill to cultivate.
In other news, my little sister copies everything we do. She gravely informed me that she is “going for a run”, and proceeded to trot down the lane just like her big brothers and sisters.
Maybe if we’d just learn what life has to teach us, it would be easier.