The latest flash point for Charles is dandelions. Charles has acquired a strong fondess for flowers and this is most easily satiated by picking dandelions. Of course, if Charles does it Alice thinks it is cool too so we naturally have fights over the picked dandelions, which end with Charles in tears and complaining “Alice broke my flower!”.
It’s a bit of a challenge because most people suppress dandelions, it’s still early and the spring has been cold. This leaves not all that many actual blooming blossoms. We spent quite a bit of time at the last soccer practice scowering the grounds for good blooms. Here Charles is unsatisfied with the quality of what we found, although that happened so many times I don’t remember precisely what was wrong in this case.
At home, of course, we have blooms in profusion. It’s For The Children™, after all.