Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The Boy Stops Me Cold
The Wife: DD, get in here!
TW: You want to handle this one? (Points to The Boy)
TB: Why doesn’t grandma live with grandpa? Grandmas need grandpas.
DD: Well, they used to, but it made them sad. So now they live apart.
TB: Why did it make them sad?
I have no idea how to explain that to a four-year-old.
Bless his short attention span, he somehow segued to a monologue about volcanoes.
I know this is coming in my family too, since our kids have seven grandparents. I'm feelin ya.
In general terms, I tell my child that a divorce is not the worst thing that can happen to a marriage.
Also, that it's better to think of a marriage's end as the completion of what it had to accomplish, not as a failure.
These are not necessarily points for a 4-year-old, of course.
My 3 year 9 months old is asking pretty interesting questions lately too...