Yesterday as I was shuffling around the kitchen fixing up some mint tea for myself and my youngest, she asks me:
5 yo: "What does 'losing your temper' mean?"
Me: "It means getting really mad and angry and carrying on in ways we really don't want to be carrying on."
5 yo: "Well, what does 'temper' mean?"
Me: "It means getting really mad and angry and carrying on in ways we really don't want to be carrying on." (see how original I am??)
She pauses for a minute, then asks: "So if you lose your temper, then you're more gooder... right? Because then you don't have a temper anymore."
How does one refute such brilliant 5 yo logic?
Me: "Yes, I suppose if we all lost our tempers, then we wouldn't have them anymore, would we? And I guess that would make us all gooder, wouldn't it?"