I don’t think Grimm’s Fairy Tales were necessarily written to entertain little children, but I think they may have been written BY them…<\/p>\n
The grandboy and I were having a safety discussion after I found he’d unlocked and opened the front door.<\/p>\n
This was our debriefing: “Ok now why do you never unlock and open the front door?”<\/p>\n
Him: “[Excitedly] Because then the bad mommas come in to the house and and and they eat everyone [sadface] and my momma will be sad.”<\/p>\n
Ok, not quite the answer I was looking for but it’ll do, for now ;p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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