Posted in Family Life
This is my latest favorite incident.I'm a horrible night owl, and my only time alone is after everyone else is in bed. So my daughter has been taught to get up, feed the animals, have a piece of fruit, and watch a couple of cartoons (we have Boomerang, so she gets all the good old ones!). I get up an hour or so later.
A couple of mornings ago, I came out and sat near her on the couch. She began chattering about the morning's shows, how the dog was behaving, asking what my activities the night before entailed, all the while looking around the room and ignoring the cartoon she had been watching.
Finally, she sighed and said, "I really need to find a book on conversation starters. I just don't what know what to say to you that's interesting."
Oh, my. Poor thing! She just wanted to talk with me, and didn't know what to say!