Conversation with a four-year-old
Kid: Hey, listen, hey, are you the boss who wrote the letter saying not to bring a lunch box to camp because you would give us snacks?
Me: Uh...
Kid: [pointing] Hey, listen, those kids have lunch boxes.
Me: That's because their stomachs are different. See? Andrés and Carlos can't eat sugar and the cookies we have today are made of sugar. So they had to bring a snack from home.
Kid: But hey, listen, hey, I don't like these cookies. I don't like sugar. And now I look like a fool.
Me: [trying not to laugh] Why do you look like a fool?
Kid: Because! Listen, hey, If I eat sugar I'll have to go to the dentist and they'll have to put a tube in my mouth to take the sugar off my teeth.
Me: [loving this kid] Ok, ok, you have my permission to bring a lunch box tomorrow.
Kid: Hey, listen, I don't care! I'm angry. Angry! I look like a fool!
Jun 30th