Thomas made a paper plane for Grace at school today and when she took it out into the garden she was worried it was going to fly over the wall. Donné says to her, “Grace, it won’t fly over the wall, there is no way that it will go over.”

Grace, in the wisdom of a 5 year old, says, “Yes it will go over,” marches up to the wall and throws it over….and then has a meltdown that the paper plane has gone over the wall and is lost forever. Sigh.

Fortunately it was pretty easy to get back. Unfortunately I’m unsure if life lesson sank in, even though we did try to emphasise how she decided to do something silly and hurt her own feelings. My words to her were, “Don’t be stubborn to the point of hurting yourself.”