Our house has rules, and most of them are Hadassah’s.
Shoes off at the door. Hands washed before eggs. And the one I like best: no phone on the morning walk.
I do not know what a phone is for. I know it is a small flat thing that takes Robert’s face away.
Lauren does not like rules today.
“What is it for?” she says, about the shoes, standing in one boot.
“Because I said,” says Robert, who is looking for his keys.
Hadassah says, “Because the floor is where Poedy sleeps, and the field is where the field is.”
That is a reason. A reason is the for, said out loud. I can tell by Lauren’s face.
The rule is a helper.
Every rule in this house helps somebody, Hadassah says.
“Even the phone one?”
“Especially the phone one,” Hadassah says, and looks at Robert, and Robert puts the phone in the drawer, and the drawer clicks, and we go.
A QUESTION TO TAKE INTO YOUR DAY
“Which rule at our house helps the most, and who does it help?”
From the book's “Read it together” prompts.