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“Why can’t we jump in the puddles? It’s more fun than walking around.”
“Remember what happened when you jumped in the puddles yesterday?”
A mumbled answer.
“That’s right. You walked dirty footprints on the carpet. Mommy told you off, didn’t she?”
A nod.
“We’re guests in mommy’s house, okay? We have to follow her rules, even if it means we have less fun than we do at home.”
A sigh. “Whatever would I do without my little voice of reason?”
Alexis is only six, but she recognises a rhetorical question. She answers anyway. “You’d probably walk dirty footprints everywhere, daddy.”