The Katie Chronicles: Boy Lessons Edition

The background: Katie has a friend at school named Max.  Max, Leo, Kaelyn, Cameron, and Katie have formed a Spy Club, which apparently involves critical meetings that must take place over the weekend. The setting: My car, driving home after work.  

Katie, who has never independently made or received a phone call in her life:  Mommy, I HAVE to call Max tonight on the phone!  He wants to get together this weekend to talk about the Spy Club and I have to call him. 

Me: Katie, I’ve told you before...if he wants to get together with you, he needs to have one of his parents call or text me.  

Katie:  Mommy, PLEASE.  He keeps asking me and asking me and asking me and he’s going to ask me tomorrow why I didn’t call him.

Me:  Did you give him my phone number?

Katie: Yes.

Me: Well, if he wants to talk to you, he needs to call you.  [smiling now] Sweetie, you’re going to have boys pestering you to do stuff all your life so it’s better to learn now.  If he wants to talk to you, he has my phone number and he can call you.  

Katie, thoughtfully: Oh, OK.