An online school assignment showed Dorothy three pictures: a shattered dinner plate, a glass of spilled milk, and a burned piece of pizza. She was supposed to talk about which one sounded the worst to her. She identified the images as: "a broken glass plate, milk spilled on a wooden floor, and getting mold on your pizza."
One of Dorothy's podcasts talked about the concept of unconscious bias. Dorothy brings this up about once a week in her own way, such as, "The way I put this leprechaun over here and that leprechaun with the shamrock over there is an example of unconscious bias."
We were discussing the Pledge of Allegiance, and Dorothy noted that it's boring to say the same thing over and over in school every day, "Plus, I didn't even know that a pledge was a promise, so I didn't know that I was making a promise."
I ordered a random chapter book at Dorothy's level from the library, and I was surprised that she wasn't diving into it. Then one night I saw her reading chapter ten intensely. I said I didn't realize that she had been reading the book at all. "I haven't read it," she said. "The first chapter looked boring. So I read the best-looking chapter to see if it's good, and it is good, so I'm going to read the book now."
We were kicking a soccer ball, and Dorothy complained, "I want to kick it straight, but I keep kicking it diangular."
Dorothy likes to play with her words and create spoonerisms, where you transpose the first sounds of two words. This makes us giggle when she crosses words like "slime" and "putty."
Dorothy told me that Aaron is her favorite boy at school. "He's my favorite boy friend," she said. "What do you like about him?" I asked. She answered, "He laughs when I try to do funny things."
Brian took a book off the shelf and said, "Dorothy, you might like this book. It's called Questions Children Ask." "And answers?" Dorothy offered hopefully.