scripts and scraps from my real-life parenting sitcom
[Scene: | I just walked into the living room and found Beth, age 6, sitting on the floor in a lotus position, hands elevated, with the dog facing her, and they are staring at each other in silence]
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Me: | [starts laughing] "What are you doing?!"
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Beth: | [quietly] "I am meditating."
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Me: | [still chuckling] "Oh? What are you meditating about?"
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Beth: | "I am meditating on the dog."
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Me: | "The dog? Why?"
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Beth: | [breaks into a big grin] "Just to make you laugh, Daddy."
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Me: | "It worked!" |