Dreamweaverrs Ponderings

Today my12 year old daughter came up to me while she was mixing some brownies to bake. She brought in the concoction in a white plastic mixing bowl and said, “Doesn’t this look like a volcano?” It was a glob of half melted butter on top of the half mixed brown batter. I admitted it did have an odd resemblance to a volcano. She got a real thrill out of her discovery.

Then she continued on.”Remember how I used to think that you could unmix things like cookie dough once you mixed them together?” I did remember that. She was quite upset at the time that you couldn’t take it apart like a building block creation or a clock. “I figured out why I thought that Mommy.”

“Why is that?” I asked her.

“I figured if you can unscrew a screw, you should be able to unmix the ingredients in cookie dough. I thought you should be able to unmix everything.”

This is a child’s abstract reasoning at its best. It made me pause to think for a moment. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could unmix the cookie dough, start over and put in the ingredients back in the right way in our lives when things go wrong?

There are times I think kids should be in charge, not often, but sometimes.