I had my five year-old daughter fill out a March Madness bracket and explain each pick. Her logic is impeccable.
My oldest daughter turned five last year, and with March Madness coming around, I had the usual good memories of filling out the bracket with family. Despite the fact that she doesn’t know anything about basketball, it seemed like a fun idea.was certainly excited at the prospect, so I thought hey, why not start a tradition AND get a blog post out of the effort?
Well, it turns out that asking a 5-year-old to make 63 game picks gets pretttty tedious after about the fifth pick, but she rallied again and again and somehow soldiered on to the end. I gave her the school name and the mascot, and she saw the logo for each team on the screen. My recorder was rolling; here’s how it turned out.over AMCC/SMO – “Hey!” she shouted when she heard the word Alabama.
over San Diego State – “Charleston,” she said. “I’m picking them by their cool names.” She had this to add before we moved on: “I wish there was one that was from Japan. Ninjas! I like ninjas a lot.”over Virginia – She picked Virginia first, until I realized I should be telling her the nicknames. As it happens, “Paladins” was too much to resist. “Actually the other ones, the Paladins,” she said, adding that she liked the diamond logo and how it sounded like the word “palace.
over UCLA – “Just because ash. The word ash.” I don’t press, but make a note of it considering the magnitude of this upset. At this point, she thought we were done, and was near despondent when I told her we had just finished the first round. I gave it all the pep I could in explaining how exciting and fast the rest would be, which
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