An agreeable disagreement

[judifilksign]

Yesterday, my daughter had a playdate with her best friend.  They had an argument.  This is wonderful, because most conversations with Sparkle are non sequitor in nature:

"Hey, Sparkle, do you want to play dolls?"
     "The doll has YELLOW hair."
"Yes, but do you want to play dolls?"
     "There are TWO dolls with YELLOW hair."

Today, there was a chair, and two girls playing "King of the Castle."  The conversation, overheard upstairs by the moms:

"I'm the King of the Castle, and Sparkle's a dirty rascal!"
          "It's my turn now."
"Okay.  Sparkle's the King of the Castle!  It's my turn now."
          "Queen."
"King."
          "I'm the QUEEN of the Castle."
"Okay, queen of the castle.  But now it's MY turn to be queen, Sparkle."
          "No, it's not.  I am still queen of the castle."
(Short scuffle.)
"I'm the Queen of the Castle, and Sparkle's a dirty rascal!"
          "No, no, no!  You are King of the Castle!  I Queen of the Castle!"
"I'm the King of the Castle, and the Queen's a dirty rascal!"
(short scuffle)
          "The King's a dirty rascal!  And I'm Queen of, queen of..."
"Sparkle, do you want to watch televsion?  Dora is on."
          "Okay."
"I'm the King of the Castle, and Sparkle's a dirty rascal!"
          "Hey!  That's not fair!"


I was so happy to hear them argue in a normal, little kid way.  At some point, both girls turned into Supergirl, and "flew" off the chair in turns, and there did not seem to be upsetitude on either side.
 

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Well that is quite cool. :-)

It sounds like the castle is full of dirty rascals though ...

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Yeah, BFF got the best end of the argument for sure, for sure, but Sparkle followed the arguments, and replied in an appropriate way, so big win on the communication front!

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

:-D

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Hurray for Sparkle!

[needlewomyn.livejournal.com]

And I will say that after Sparkle left, BFF did, in fact, fall off the chair and bang her ankle. As she was warned might happen.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I hope not badly.

Sparkle never seems to learn from bumps and bruises, though. "Once burnt, twice shy," appears to mean for her "Once bumped, I survived, do it again and better."