“Prince Maggi Tessa?” asked My Little Boy

“Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella and she had two ugly stepsisters…..”
“Amma,” my little boy interrupted before I finished reading the first line of his first fairy tale.
“Bootifu? Huggy?” he wanted to know what ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’ meant. It was a difficult subject to deal with a kid, so I just pointed to the Cinderella and her stepsisters in the picture as I said ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’.
I was sure he wouldn’t get what they actually meant. In fact, I didn’t want him to.

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