My four year old granddaughter is a sage. Wisdom for the ages.

[TBA]

We were swimming and she asked if we could race each other to the end of the pool.
As were were about to start the race she said; "Granny, grab my hand and hold on so we can win together".

That is what we Dems believe. In this world, maybe we need less competition and more "winning together".

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Thank you. And give your granddaughter a thank you hug from this grampa

[SharonAnn]

24. Should be rquired reading "The Case Against Competition" by Alfie Kohn.

It's an excellent book. I read it 25-30 years ago and it really opened my eyes to the disservice we do to others by making everything a competition where "winner takes all".

[LT Barclay]

28. And ourselves. I enjoy sailing and was able to

convince my wife that 2 boats are a necessity for life; and one is fast and the other is not. I often toy with the idea of racing the smaller, faster boat, but I realized that I can enjoy going fast without being bound up by comparing myself to others through competition. If I can be sure that I can compete without being disappointed in myself, my crew or my boat I may try it.

[KT2000]

29. This is why I love theater

in the schools. Putting on a play requires cooperation an support of others. The prop person is as important as the lead actor - if the phone rings and the phone is not on stage - big mistake.
I have seen so many students push themselves farther than they thought possible.
By the end, they experience comradery.

[TBA]

39. My grandson is in middle school theater. I agree.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Thanks for the book rec ... here's one in return.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/329317/the-winner-take-all-society-by-robert-frank/

It always seemed to me that one of the biggest problems with competition is that it leads to redundant efforts, with inevitable waste. It's worth remembering that evolution only functions by killing off less successful organisms at a prodigious rate. Corps and exculpatory pundits praise "free market competition", but as soon as they make it to the top they start fixing the laws (by paying the lawmakers) to make sure no new competition to their own monopoly can ever succeed. So the beauty of the free market is that someone else has to go out of business.

[Pinback]

38. Thanks - link:

https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/case-competition/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Ds and Rs have the same values but Ds add one

Ds and Rs love their families.
Ds and Rs love their country.
Ds and Rs love justice.
Ds and Rs love their religions (or freedom from religion).

Note: Ds and Rs view those things through different lenses, where for example, Rs sometimes see pardoning Jan 6 violent mobs is "justice". This is mostly because maga is largely "miscalibrated from reality".

What Ds add is a love for the wider community that exists in a range between "family" and "country". It is because Ds have more empathy, which is a set of feelings most often derived from more intelligence. Hard to be less blunt.

Your granddaughter is intelligent.

[MIButterfly]

3. Out of the mouths of babes!

What a sweet thing to say. And it's true, Democrats think of "we" - what's for the greater good. Republicans think of "me" - what's in it for me?

Thank you for this post. It really warmed my heart.

[TBA]

6. You are welcome. I think about what she said often.

[malaise]

4. Lovely OP

Rec 😀

[Festivito]

5. A truly just cause.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. I loved this! Your granddaughter is a smart cookie with a big heart.

Thank you for sharing this!

[3catwoman3]

8. Spot on.

That wisdom would make a good T-shirt logo. 🩵

[3catwoman3]

9. Spot on.

That wisdom would make a good T-shirt logo. 🩵

[anciano]

10. Wonderful post!

👏

[angrychair]

11. That is beautiful

I absolutely love it. It's easy to dismiss phrases like this as not being sincere. We need to be a little less jaded and look at issues and people with the open heart and pure soul of a child.

[NBachers]

12. I love this. It warms my heart and makes my day better. Thank you for posting it.

I wish my granddaughter would say that when we were racing to the car to see who gets there first, but I guess there’s a limit.

[PJMcK]

13. Hope for the future

Thanks for sharing this wonderful story.

[BurnDoubt]

14. Sweet!

I weep for the Babies.
Shame on us for leaving them such a hateful World.
Competition, Tribalism, and Jealousy have made their World toxic physically, emotionally, and Morally.
DO BETTER.

[mcar]

15. She is brilliant!

My oldest grand girl will be 4 next week. They are the best!

[OMGWTF]

16. Democrats care about people. Republicans care about money (and hating people).

[LoisB]

17. She is going to be a wonderful adult.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. A thousand years ago

Art Linkletter used to have a show on TV in the 50's called: Kids Say The Darnest Things...... Great show

My four year old son and I were driving by a hospital, and I said to him: "Look there's where your mom's father practices medicine".......
he replied," he doesn't practice dad, he does it for real".........LOL

My grandson and I, when he was about five, would watch dinosaur train......a disney? show about dinosaurs. The guy who ran the show made some statement about dinosaurs and my grandson said "that's actually a hypothesis"..............(His mother is a biologist and scientist) I thought I would call him on using that word and I asked him if he knew what a hypothesis meant. He said sure, it means a theory, but it has to be proven by running a lot of scientific experiments.

LOL

I think kids and animals are a lot smarter than we think......

[Upthevibe]

19. TBA...........

That is SO cool.....

[multigraincracker]

20. I would say she may be a Taoist Sage.

Opposites define each other. With no winner there is no loser.
With no losses there is no winner.

They both arise together.

[Cha]

21. Beautiful wise words from your

granddaughter, TBA!

Mahalo for sharing!

[littlemissmartypants]

22. ❤️

[niyad]

23. Awwwwwww, snifffff. .that is no doubt the sweetest thing I will see today.

Thank you, and your loving granddaughter.

[PittBlue]

25. This truly made my day.

❤️

[barbtries]

26. sweetest thing i've ever heard.

definitely it is time to let the younger generations start leading.

[H2O Man]

27. Beautiful!

[ElementaryPenguin]

30. Fabulous!!

[Clouds Passing]

32. Win together should be the Dems new motto. Your granddaughter is most certainly a sage 💖

[wryter2000]

33. So we can win together

Lovely

[whathehell]

34. Out of the mouths of babes...

Such a wise and adorable little girl, and YES, this is what Democrats believe.

[a kennedy]

35. OMG!!!!!

[Jrsygrl96]

36. Adorable!

Bruce Springsteen always says, “Nobody wins unless everybody wins.”

[BobTheSubgenius]

37. That is the loveliest thing I have read in AGES!!!

Not only is that little girl a complete gem, the people in her life must be great, as well. Hugs and a few tears for everyone!

I'm always very reluctant to post something in a thread as rare and precious as this.....oh, changed my mind, so I won't. I think it deserves its own thread, even though it won't be seen by nearly as many.