My little feminist

[wayfaringwordhack]

 Sprout is really something in a lot of ways, as most parents would likely say of one of their children, but when it comes to her feminist streak...let's just say, her streak is a mile wide or more.

I am reading a book with her called Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook up the World, and while I blubber like a baby at some of the stories, she gets fired up and ready to go to war. It is too late for me to go into a lot of detail about the book or Sprout, but she said something to me today after we watched Aquaman that I wanted to record.

"Mom," she said, "do you want to know what I just made up? The robes of king can fit well on a queen."

To which I heartily agreed.

Then she came back and told me, "Here is another one: In a fight, brain makes more might."

She is in bed, and I can't ask if that second one was her exact wording, but the sentiment is there. 

She might not ever shake up the whole world, but she sure shakes up mine.

Comments

[asakiyume]

She is brilliant. She's already shaking up the world--one parent and parent's friend at a time ♥

Let us be shaken into right and never out of it

[wayfaringwordhack]

She is indeed a brillant, shake-the-world girl. :D

[tolcath]

What a delightful Sprout she still is.

I remember how awed I felt when a friend's child said it was mean that one of the dogs in The Aristocats hit the other dog - something that I'd taken for granted at her age. I was so proud of her realizing that because she was so right.

[wayfaringwordhack]

Yes, children sometimes see so much more than we adults do about wrongs and mistreatment. At some point, a very sad point, that righteous indignation gets ground out of most people or we become slowly inured to it. :(

[rimturse]

Lots and lots of potential there, she might give you a run for your money writing and creativity-wise. :)

[pjthompson]

Mighty Sprout!