Elizabeth Smart

Like, we're going to be there at the bus stop when you get off the bus and we're going to drive you home.

Or, you know, we can walk, but I'm going to be there.

But I'm going to be there.

Yeah.

Or, you know, daddy's going to be there.

Like...

one of us is going to be there.

But like, we take these conversations as they come, because she actually got kind of upset that we wouldn't just, she was like, you treat me like a baby.

And I had to sit down and I had to explain to her, which, you know, it's hard because she gets really, she's very sensitive.

Like when she first learns about new things, she almost like

fixates on it or obsesses over it a little bit.

Like when they learned about fire safety at school, she came home and she was like, mama, is our house going to burn down?

Is our house going to burn down?

Like, when is our house going to burn down?

Like, and so we had to talk about that when I went to a funeral once, um,

She kept on asking me for months and months and months, are you going to die?

Are you going to die?

When are you going to die?

And so these are conversations that, I mean, they're very important to me and very serious to me that I want to help her understand that it's not that I don't think she can or that I think she's a baby.

Well, I mean, she always will be my baby, but...