Tuesday, May 27, 2008

How to explain?

My special baby, pointing to litter on the way to kindergarten this morning: "What's that?"
I: "Trash."
"Why's it there?"
Not wanting to just say because people are stupid, I said, "Because some people in Klaipeda don't respect themselves or the city they live in."
"Why??"
"...because they're stupid."

Come on! How am I gonna explain to a three year old why people don't respect themselves or their city? They're disenchanted with life? They spent so much time living in the Soviet Union? They're too lazy? I don't see any end to the string of whys that would follow any answer I can think of.

1 comment:

Rachel Croucher said...

Hahaha, so now the "why?" stage has begun, you are sure as hell going to have fun with this one :-)