“How can Wal-Mart sell things so cheaply? Why do people want stuff so badly? Why do they call it Black Friday?” She can’t get the questions out of her mind.

“You’re not going to like this,” she began another conversation at bedtime. I thought she was going to tell me she’d hidden candy in her pillowcase. “But I bet if you went on YouTube you could see what happened at Wal-Mart.”

“Oh no,” I said. “I’m sure you can’t. I’m sure the surveillance videos have been taken by the police and are being studied carefully and are going to be entered as evidence.” I thought this sounded good.

“I don’t mean the surveillance videos,” she said, speaking delicately, as though in deference to my more tender sensibilities. “I mean if someone had had a video camera, they’d be able to show what happened.”

I don't usually read parenting pieces, but I find the 8-year-old girl in the above excerpt really cute in an interesting way. Read the full piece here, from NYT via funny girl.