[M.D. Holloway]

Last night I had a very interesting conversation with our Daughter. I was tucking her in and according to her nightly rituals of reading stories, singing and making up a story she said “Dad, wouldn’t it be cool if you could open up someone’s head and control them!”

“That would be something but I don’t think I would like it much if someone did that to me how about you?” I asked.

“Well, there are things in our heads that control us, like 4 things, they are like viruses but different. Much smaller. They are real small.” She said.

“Huh…what do these things do?’ I asked.

“They control language, the sounds in your head when you talk inside your head and to people. There is also one that is in charge of your emotions – you know what makes you feel happy and sad. There is one that makes you move around. And there is one that takes care of all your memories. They all talk to each other too.”

“Wow, that’s very interesting. Let me ask you this, which one takes care of your heart rate or your eyeballs or your nose to smell?”

“Well… (She paused) there are really 5 then. The 5th one is like a coach. He makes sure all the body stuff is doing its job right.” She explained.

“That makes sense. I think you have it pretty well covered. What made you think of that stuff?” I asked.

“I think of stuff all the time Daddy! I like to think.”

“Well sweetie, I like the way you think.”

“Now let’s make up a story! Give me three random words and we can make one up. Go!”

“OK, Teapots, Crickets and Crocodiles!” I offered

And the fun began…

She is 7 by the way.