Emma wants new bows...

So I love hearing people call kids innocent. So not the case!! I'm completely convinced kids are born with all the same motives as adults have. For example- wanting what you don't have. A woman came in the other day. She had a cute little girl (I assume her daughter) and a nice man (I assume her husband) with her. She had two different types of ribbon. She was trying to figure out how much she needed. She said she needed to make really big hairbows. I said that a yard normally is enough for a bow, but if she wants a really big one, it might take more. I asked her how big it needed to be. She then explained the whole story. She said Emma (the little girl) had plenty of perfectly nice hairbows, but, according to Emma, they weren't big enough. She wanted bigger ones like her classmate had. The mom said this little girl had huge hairbows- ridiculously big actually. For some reason, Emma wanted hairbows like that, not the ones she currently owned. So here was the mom, trying to figure out how much ribbon it would take to make Emma look like this other little girl. It's funny, because this little girl looked too small to have such determined opinions about something like the size of her hairbows. I think the funniest part was when the mom was leaving. She said, "Yeah- so we may have thought big bows were out, but I guess they're making a comeback." Who knew the latest hair fashions would start in a preschool?