While I shopped at our neighborhood farmers market this morning, Heidi walked over to the adjoining playground to get a drink for Lucy from the water fountain. She found the basin filled with plastic cups of sand and water, and as she lifted one to clear the bubbler, two tiny girls ran over from the play structure, fixin' for a fight.
"What are you doing with our cups?" they demanded, little hands on tiny hips.
Rather than tell them off, Heidi went full-Socratic on the pre-schoolers. "Do you think it makes it easier or harder to use the water fountain when your cups are there?" she asked them in her best kindly teacher voice.
They thought about the question a minute. "Harder," older girl answered.
"Don't we want people and animals to be able to get water to drink if they are thirsty?" Heidi continued.
The girls nodded. Heidi handed them their cups, and they ran off to play while she filled a bowl for Lucy.
"Well look you just spreading social skills where ever you go!" I teased her when she told me the story on the walk home.
"It's my service to the community," she agreed, modestly.
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