A few entries ago, I blogged about my son asking some difficult questions related to "The Lion King." It seems now that is not the only Disney movie that's going to elicit questions from my 5 year old's ever-growing and endlessly inquisitive mind. The more he grasps, the less he's watching simply for the pretty configuration of lights and sound emanating from the TV.
Which leads us to this latest practically unanswerable question. He was watching "Aladdin" the other day, and the scene where the genie, in bee form, imitates a plane crashing when Aladdin is talking to Princess Jasmine -- bumbling through his words as he tries, and fails, to woo her.
"Why does the bee have flames coming out of his bottom?" my son asked.
I actually just started typing a recreation of my attempt at a response but then realized that I could be no more coherent on the virtual page here than I was in real life. How does one explain the concept of "crashing and burning" to a 5 year old?
All my efforts were pitiful crash and burns themselves.
"Why is he trying to fly a plane with her?" my son asked quizzically after my first shot at an explanation.
I tried to clear things up and then got, "Oh, so, the magic carpet is going to crash?"
Clearly I'm not getting through.
Plan B: the elimination of all metaphors from our lives. That should go well.
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