有天晚上，
我们正聊到复利这个话题。
娃儿突然问：
“妈妈，你今天是不是跟律师聊天了？”
我心想，
这好像不是普通孩子会关心的话题。
我说：
“不是，今天我帮爸爸预约看医生。”
“我前两天已经跟律师聊过了！”
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“那接下来怎么处理？”
娃儿继续追问。
这已经不太像八岁孩子会关心的范围了。
我说：
“接下来，N会向J发一封追讨信。”
“除非J把信丢到垃圾桶，
要不然，
他就得找自己的律师替他处理。”
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“那万一他不理呢？”
娃儿继续问。
我说：
“万一不理，
N就会起诉他。”
说实话，
对于一个八岁孩子知道“起诉”这个概念，
我还是挺惊讶的。
因为他知道，
当年爱迪生也起诉过偷他专利的人。
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“那起诉之后呢？”
他继续问。
我说：
“起诉之后，
法官就会介入。”
“法官会说：
你，不对。
乱开车还撞到别人。
你得赔某某人的所有账单。”
我尽量用孩子能懂的语言表达。
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“什么是法官？”
娃儿问。
“法官就是那个判定谁对谁错的人。”
我回答。
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“那他要是没钱呢？”
娃儿继续问。
我说：
“如果这个J真没钱的话，
我们也没办法呀！”
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结果，
娃儿想了一下，
很自然地说：
“是啊，
生活还是要继续。
比如买车什么的。”
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听完这句话，
我又惊呆了。
他怎么能说出：
“生活还是得继续。”
这种这么有哲思的话呢。
老母亲听了哭笑不得。
说的确实是，不管如何，我们的生活还是得继续。
接着又来了句：
“我知道了，让FBI把他抓起来！”
听到这，我又笑倒了。
婷妈的亲子日常 创作于 2026.06.07
原创发布： tingtingma.com
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Tingma’s Parenting Diary | 281. Life Still Has to Go On
One evening,
we were talking about compound interest.
Suddenly, my son asked,
“Mom, did you talk to the lawyer today?”
I thought to myself,
That doesn’t seem like the kind of question most eight-year-olds would ask.
I said,
“No, today I helped Daddy make a doctor’s appointment.
I talked to the lawyer a couple of days ago.”
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“So what happens next?”
he continued to ask.
This was already far beyond what most eight-year-olds would normally care about.
I said,
“Next, N will send J a demand letter.”
“Unless J throws the letter into the trash,
he’ll have to find his own lawyer to handle it.”
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“What if he ignores it?”
my son asked again.
I replied,
“If he ignores it,
N will sue him.”
To be honest,
I was a little surprised that an eight-year-old even understood the idea of a lawsuit.
But then I remembered,
he knew that Thomas Edison had once sued someone for stealing his patent.
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“What happens after the lawsuit?”
he continued.
I said,
“After that,
the judge gets involved.”
“The judge will say,
‘You were wrong.
You drove carelessly and hit someone.
You have to pay all of that person’s medical bills.’”
I tried my best to explain it in a way an eight-year-old could understand.
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“What is a judge?”
my son asked.
“A judge is the person who decides who is right and who is wrong,”
I answered.
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“What if he doesn’t have any money?”
he asked again.
I said,
“If J really doesn’t have any money,
there’s nothing we can do.”
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My son thought for a moment,
then said very naturally,
“Yeah,
life still has to go on.
Like buying a car and things like that.”
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When I heard that,
I was completely amazed again.
How could he say something like,
“Life still has to go on,”
with so much philosophy behind it?
This mom could only laugh and sigh at the same time.
But he was right.
No matter what happens,
our lives still have to move forward.
Then, all of a sudden, he came up with another idea.
“I know!
Let the FBI arrest him!”
The moment I heard that,
I burst out laughing again.
Tingma’s Parenting Diary
Written on June 07, 2026
Originally published at: tingtingma.com
Written for my child, and for the adults who are still growing.
Unauthorized reproduction is prohibited.
Originally written in Chinese by the author.
This English version was translated with the assistance of ChatGPT.