Nariah was talking on the speaker phone to grandma and granddad tonight and wanted to play make believe. The topic was about being on a ship and mermaids. I’m putting away her clothes and listening to her and all of a sudden she breaks out into a song about mermaids. My first instinct is “oh cool, a new song!”
Here’s what followed:
“Here comes a mermaid… swimming in the sea
here comes a shark… and eats up the mermaid
here comes another mermaid swimming in the sea
here comes the shark again, and eats up the mermaid…”
I’m feeling a nervous silence over the phone and think to myself what a violent song this is. So I try to jump in for damage control.
“Umm, Nariah, is this a new song you learned?”
“Its a new song, I’m making it up now…”
“Oh… Well why are the sharks eating up the mermaids?”
Nariah looks at me sideways as if to say, “Helloooooooooooo” and says:
“Because that’s what sharks do!”
Helloooooooooo, I guess I don’t need to question her anymore.
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