Diplomacy

mljm related a story to me yesterday about our daughter, K, five years old:

K asked, "Does J have bad dreams?" J is our son, who is 18 months old.

M wasn't sure, she replied, but he might.

"I don't want him to have bad dreams."

"Oh? Why not?"

"I don't want him to be scared," she said, earnestly. "He needs to be happy."

Now, before you melt onto your keyboard with the Gosh-Awful-Cuteness of it, less than ten minutes later, K hit her little needs-to-be-happy brother over the head with a plastic fishing pole.

I got to thinking, hey! That's just how international diplomacy works, only faster.

Diplomacy

mljm related a story to me yesterday about our daughter, K, five years old:

K asked, "Does J have bad dreams?" J is our son, who is 18 months old.

M wasn't sure, she replied, but he might.

"I don't want him to have bad dreams."

"Oh? Why not?"

"I don't want him to be scared," she said, earnestly. "He needs to be happy."

Now, before you melt onto your keyboard with the Gosh-Awful-Cuteness of it, less than ten minutes later, K hit her little needs-to-be-happy brother over the head with a plastic fishing pole.

I got to thinking, hey! That's just how international diplomacy works, only faster.