Tonight at dinner, while each of us talked in our typical overlapping-everyone-talking-at-once style, I mentioned that I had not seen the notice that the school said they sent home about road safety around Sophie's School. Sophie quickly responded (at a pitch that I am convinced our good friends in West Van can hear) that the school probably didn't send the note home with the younger kids and only with the older ones who had "those bad things starting in their heads". Huh??? There was a pause in the action while everyone tried to figure out what Soph had just said. "Soph, what do you mean the older kids with the bad things in their heads? "you know Mama, the bad things that teenagers get in their heads - the things you told me about"....hummm...stumped on this one and clearly irritating Sophie by not remembering what I had told her.
"Maaa-maaa, the things that make teenagers crazy and make them do crazy things and not like their mummies and daddies"...OH, I remember now. "Soph, are you talking about hormones?". "Yes, that is what it is. You told me about those bad things that teenagers get in their heads that make them act crazy". "I did, you're right. But what does that have to do with you not getting a certain note from school about road safety?"
Logically - "Well, the school probably only gives the note to the older kids who are just starting to get their hormones and just starting to do bad and crazy things. You know, they would be the kids who need to know about road safety because they probably can't think about that with all the hormones taking up all the room in their heads. The little kids like me know all about road safety so we don't need the note. That's why I didn't get it I guess." Right. Of course. Its all about the hormones.
