what did he say that was so inspirational...it was on speakerphone

okay...so i have been trying to work on this make new friends for my daughter idea...and i thought she might like going to summer camp...i always wanted to go to camp but, my parents would never send me and i would day dream about how fun it would be if i could go...especially science or space camp...yes, i am a super nerd...i freely embrace this part of my personality...due to tv watching and a wild imagination my kid thinks that camp will be horrible and the kids will pull pranks.. and no way oh, no way is she spending the night but, i was only gonna send her to day camp...i thought i had found one she would like...you get to pick your top 3 favorite activities and you get to do them each and hour a day plus group activities and lunch and snack...she could not be convinced that this was a good idea...i tried reasoning with her and telling her that i was probably gonna make her go but then my parents decided they would pay for her to go for her birthday present...well, she was still dead set against it.

how can you make friends if you don't even try...i told her this would just give her practice making friends and it might be something cool for the summer and hell, it was only one week...five days is not that long...finally i gave up and she was tell her dad tonight on the phone about how she didn't want to go to camp and he told her she would have so much fun and how she would be missing out and how much fun he had at camp when he was a kid...ect, ect, ect....okay so after that call she called my parents and told them that she changed her mind about camp and then called her dad back and told him that he inspired her and she was going to camp.

balls!!!! and wtf?????????????  his two second conversation inspired her to go to camp...i cannot believe this...if this is a taste of what it is going to be like for the next decade i am not going to be a happy camper...at least now i know if i want her to do something and can't talk her into it i am going make her dad talk her into it...but, i just can't believe i witnessed this unfold before my eyes...i just became a non-entity to my soon to be nine year old...wow, i was not ready for this.