Boys v. Girls

Gillian is way into gender delineation. It is never just Doctor, but rather a girl doctor or a boy doctor, she has been known to call Granpa "Boy Grandma." The other day she was telling me that Eleanor was a girl.

"How do you know she's not a boy?" I asked.

"She doesn't talk like a boy" was the reply.

"How does a boy talk?"

"Like a chicken, bok, bok, ba GOK!"

Children's efforts to make sense of the world around them makes me so grateful to be as old as I am. I wonder if 80 year olds laugh at the way 30 year olds make sense of the world. Probably.