This morning when we left the house we saw a grandma dragging her grand daughter to the preschool. The old lady was Chinese and she was talking partially in English and part Mandarin. So all together it just sounded like angry shouting by this tiny lady. To my horror my kid decided to walk right behind them on the side walk laughing her head off!!!! When I asked her what is so funny she said that it makes her laugh when other kids are crying. Am I raising a psychopath? Well she went on to explain to me that it makes her feel good when she sees somebody crying, because she knows that she is not feeling as sad as them…
I of course gave her a lecture about compassion and empathy, but I felt that she was so right (in her little bit over the top preschooler kinda way). When I see somebody being miserable it makes me fell good knowing I’m not them 😉
ktojoy 