Grammar first, campaign trails later...okay?

Yesterday morning "in the country," while watching The Princess (now 5) stir the pancake batter that would eventually become our breakfast, her mom and I talked politics a bit. Occasionally our chef looked up as if mildly curious about something one of us had declared, then returned to her work without comment. Finally I asked her, "When grownups discuss politics, do you know what they're talking about?" Unconcerned, she looked at me, responded, "No!" with a little shrug, and continued stirring. I thought the matter was closed, then she looked up again. "But I know what punctuation is! You have a question mark, and a period, and an exclamation mark!"

Comments

[Tamara]

Out of the mouths of babes. Talk about telling everyone what's really important. I'm a grown up and I still don't understand how the whole process really works.

[Melody]

I'm learning more and more about the process, but I'm far from "getting it" and why "it" works the way it does. (And why we don't change a few things that would make it make more sense to my own little brain.) The Princess, though? She's full of good insight...