Was driving Phoebe to her pony class the other day and having a talk in the car. Our best talks usually happen in the car when it's just me and her. Otherwise, she's always competing for attention. She mentioned she liked the Johnny Depp version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", which we'd watched the night before.
So, I asked her, "did you like Sjakie?" (the Dutch name for Charlie, since we watched the video in Dutch, which made it seem even wierder to me than it probably was). "Who was that?" she asked. "That was Charlie", I replied. "Oh", she said, "he's the one who didn't have any problems". I couldn't have said it better. Charlie may have been short on money + food, but he was long on love + respect.
We hadn't even talked about the movie up until this point, but she was able to come to this conclusion all by herself. I know kids have a sharp intuition, but sometimes we need moments like this to help us appreciate just how together are kids really are.
I loved watching this movie as a kid, but it's even better to watch it now with my own kids. It makes my heart glad to see them enjoying the silliness of it all but also learning an important lesson - like don't forget to brush + floss!
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