Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We had a whirlwind week last week taking our granddaughter places and making sure she saw her aunts, uncles and cousins.  I even connected her with my foster granddaughter who just turned 14.  I had to be sensitive to a teenager's moods and interests as well as my preteen granddaughter, so we saw kittens at the pet store, shopped and bought smelly things at the cosmetics store, and I purchased earrings for them at a candy store with apparel in the back.  Then we had dinner at a pasta shop, and they both ordered exactly what they wanted, as the sauces and pastas were mix and match.  Then we hit the ice cream place, and headed back to drop my foster granddaughter off at her home.  I could see my foster had to struggle being around a "little kid", and her developmental narcissism was in evidence, as she touched her face, adjusted her hair and basically, and typically for that age, was focused on herself.  She will grow out of it and my granddaughter into it.  Thank goodness it's a temporary phase.  I could tell my granddaughter knew to be careful around the foster, and had a lot of tact and sensitivity.  And bless her heart, my foster granddaughter has been raised right and did the same.  Four years ago they were flower girls together at my younger daughter's wedding.  But the times, they are a-changing.