Are mermaids real – part 2
I find it amazing how people, especially kids, can hold to completely contradictory ideas in their minds and believe both of them utterly. My daughter knows that Father Christmas isn’t real, that mummy and daddy “help” him with the presents, that the Father Christmases you see in the shopping centres are not the real Father Christmas, and so on. And yet, she does still believe in him and wonders how he knows what she wants for Christmas.
She knows the Easter Bunny isn’t real – but is quite terrified by the idea that he might come into the house to leave the Easter eggs.
She loves fairies, leaves things out for them in the backyard. But the other day she announces to me, “Fairies aren’t real you know, dad.”
I wonder how they day it. What wonderful, elastic minds they must have.
