What is Best in Life?

In my last post, I talked about the difficulty in wanting to share favorite things with your kids too soon. A prime example of this is Conan. I have vivid memories of watching Conan the Barbarian when I was probably eight. Some of those memories are probably too vivid. So Conan is right out for my 7 year old, who responds much more strongly to visuals than I ever did.
Oh, but I do love me some Conan. In fact, if Princess Pea had been a boy, we had settled on Conan for the name. Seriously. Of course it wasn't only for the barbarian. It's a solid, obscure Irish name from the Finn McCool legends, and sounds great with the surname, etc etc. But I must admit we had dreams of sitting our little preschool boy crosslegged on a tabletop and asking him, "Conan, what is best in life?"

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(In a side note, this scene draws from the Finn McCool legends, in which the question was often posed to warriors at a feast. The poetry of their answers was as much a measure of the man as their feats in battle.)

Being good feminist parents, we eventually realized that not having a son was a sorry excuse for depriving ourselves of this joy. So we began to teach the line to our girls. The other day Big Daddy picked Wonder Red up at school and the extremely hip first grade teacher Mr Z poked his head out of the classroom to ask, "Did you really let her watch Conan? You guys are awesome parents." Wonder Red doesn't know her favorite line comes from Conan, but her teacher got the reference when she came up to him in class and said, "Mr. Z, Mr. Z, ask me what is best in life!"
I have only just learned how to embed video, and I'm not quite up to trying to post and embed home movies yet. And that's really a shame. Because watching Wonder Red shout, "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women" is a real joy. And if you ask me, the best thing in life to see my little Goldilocks of a Princess Pea answer the same question, "Cwush you emenies!"
Maybe I will have to work on that home movie thing....