This morning we were reading the picture book of Beauty and the Beast. I read how Gaston wanted to marry Belle. After looking at the pictures we had the following conversation
Grace - She can’t marry him, she’s just a girl!
Tim – Why do you think that?
- ‘Cause she’s got long hair
- So, girls have long hair and women have short hair; is that right?
- Yep
- Is your mum a woman or a girl?
- She’s in between ‘cause her hair isn’t long and it isn’t short
Tim – Aunty Charlotte is getting married in three days. Is she a woman?
- No, ‘cause her hair’s long
- Is Cousin Esther a woman?
- No. She a girl ‘cause her hair is very long
- Are you a girl, Grace?
- Yep
- But your hair is short
- Oh, yeah. I a woman
- What will happen when you get older, like Maria, and your hair gets longer?
- Then I be a girl
I’ll be interested to hear her views on Samson, Rapunzel, Marge Simpson, and Benjamin Button
