That’s An Ironic Name, Isn’t It?

We were reading in A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World that every child deserves to have enough food. We then read about reasons why people might not have enough food to eat. One of the reasons listed was war, and then it had some explanation with it.

Jack then chimed in, “I know about war!”

“What do you know about war,” I inquired.

“A long time ago, there were people in England that liked tea and people somewhere else that didn’t like tea, so they had a war. That’s what Elise, um, no, Emily told me.” (Elise and Emily are sisters, and are members of a homeschool family that we get together with sometimes.)

I figured that I knew what they had probably told him about from this description. So, I told him that it wasn’t really about people not liking tea, and asked if they had told him about an event called The Boston Tea Party.

His face lit up, indicating that was actually what it had all been about. So, then we talked about the Boston Tea Party and some of what had happened and why (I’m just always looking for those teachable moments, I can’t help it).

Jack finally kind of smirked and said, “I think they should have called it the Boston Destroy Tea Party instead.”

Indeed — it is an ironic name, isn’t it?

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