Aug 06 2008
Infallable Logic
This morning, Grace came into our bedroom at seven am on the dot. This is when she is “allowed” to wake us up. She came in holding two of the last three glow sticks.
In the past, I have controlled how many and when she gets to activate them, so as not to have 25 going at once. This time, however, she helped herself to the three remaining sticks (and kindly gave one of the three to Ava).
She said to me “Dada, the tube [holding the sticks] was empty and we needed to throw it away, so I turned these on.” We call the logic Effect and Cause, and it works great when time is going backwards or you are four years old.
That’s one smart and unselfish cookie…wish I had been able to come up with logical Effect and Cause excuses when I was little. Unlike telling my mom that that my next-door neighbor was the person who overfed my fish. Doesn’t sound any more plausable now then it did to my mom back then…