Hello Dr. Laura,

I took my 5-year-old daughter to see her first play, "Cinderella". She has never seen the movie version so on the way to the theatre, I outlined it for her. I told her at the end of the story Cinderella and the prince marry. In the stage version we saw, the story ends without the audience witnessing the wedding. It was just assumed because most people are familiar with the story.

Later that evening, my husband who had stayed home with our 3-year-old son was talking to her about the play. I was in an adjacent room listening to them chat. He asked her to "high and low" the play for him. She said her "high" was the ball scene. Her "low" was she didn't get to see Cinderella marry the prince. My husband told her she didn't get see the wedding because Cinderella and the prince had just met and they needed to date at least two years before getting married. She accepted that as a reasonable answer and I quietly smiled to myself.

I hope you are smiling too, Dr. Laura.

A very thankful wife and mommy,

Heidi