Kid Logic

My daughter needed instruction recently on how to clean off her horribly cluttered play table.

I advised her to just put away 17 items every now and then, when she had a moment. Then it wouldn't seem like such a big, impossible job.

"But Mom," she said, "what if at the end, there aren't 17 items left to put away?"

Isn't that a perfectly gorgeous example of how kids think? I caught myself almost getting exasperated, but then I smiled and thought how cool it is to be sharing space with a youngster to keep me guessing with her fabulous kid logic.