Assignment 9- Caili Harris

As children, we stack our little blocks, until the kid next to us knocks them down. What’s next? Well, if you’re my cousin, you throw a block at that kid to show him who’s boss. This then leads to the other kid throwing a block, and before we knew it my cousin Freddy and this other kid- we’ll call him Danny- were flinging blocks left and right. Nothing could stop them. Every once and a while, these kids exchanged names such as poopyhead or booger. My Aunt, Uncle, and Danny’s parents tried to intervene, but they became trapped in the crossfire. Eventually the fighting ended because both sets of parents realized they could sneak up behind their children without taking a block to the face. My Uncle, Aunt, and Danny’s parents scooped up each kid, and forced them to apologize to each other, and the conflict ended. Because Freddy and Danny are about 3 years old, they still require time to develop their speaking and communicative skills. Five years later if some similar happened, these children would be more likely to talk out the issue, rather than waging WWT (World War Toddler). What’s funny is how fully developed world leaders lack the audacity to use the communicative skills eight year olds often possess and end up launching battles before sitting down and discussing the issues at hand. War is avoidable. No reason appears to justify the loss of life we see in modern warfare. Political leaders allow their childish anger to justify unnecessary conflict with other nations.