conversations with a teenager
Jun. 27th, 2014 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Watching the nightly news, as an article about the Commonwealth Games comes on ...
Lilygirl: What's the Commonwealth Games?
Me: Like the Olympics, a bunch of countries compete - the ones that are part of the British Commonwealth. Like Canada, England, etc.
Lilygirl: And that's all? That's not very nice, to be all exclusive like that for no reason.
Me: No, there is a reason ...
Lilygirl: Oh yeah, just because you're not in their little gang, they won't let you join? (severely) That's just not on, Mother.
Me: ...
Lilygirl: What's the Commonwealth Games?
Me: Like the Olympics, a bunch of countries compete - the ones that are part of the British Commonwealth. Like Canada, England, etc.
Lilygirl: And that's all? That's not very nice, to be all exclusive like that for no reason.
Me: No, there is a reason ...
Lilygirl: Oh yeah, just because you're not in their little gang, they won't let you join? (severely) That's just not on, Mother.
Me: ...