A learning experience with my grand daughter

Every moment spent with my granddaughter these days is like being born again or like some miracle!

She pesters me for stories either with some comic strip or from my own existing fund. The other day it was Buddha's life story as narrated in Ramakrishna Vijayam.

This is a test - how I can tell Buddha's question about life, why people are miserable and how to attain happiness to a five year old! I try to put myself in her place - she is not your normal five year old - and find words to explain! (I can see rolling of eyes, and hear the whisper - "every grandma thinks of her grand kid like that!" ). You can judge yourself after I convey her responses!

I told her - Buddha wanted to remove the sadness of everyone and he found the way. Do you know what is desire (Aasai)? she nodded her read and when I started giving some example she helped me with her own examples;

GD: Like I want the Car toy that Kabir has, right?

Me: Yes, Buddha said that we should not have desire. But can we stop our 'Aasai'? She with her eyes going round and inwards into her thinking world nodded 'no'. Then I said, Buddha advised us to have good thoughts, good words, deeds and so on.

Something urged me to further explain this - Can we simply say, don't be angry'?
GD: No.
Me: Instead, we can try to think of good things, have good thoughts, images in our mind. For good thought, I said ' (நல்ல யோசனை) Nalla yochanai' in Tamil. A bulb went off in her face!
GD: M... I too get nalla yochanai like I should not eat dhusi (dust). Nalla yochanai is like Amma telling me me things - 'sleep early so that you can become strong'. Pch... but the other bad thought also creeps in telling me,"Eat dust, nothing will happen". I feel, 'Ayyo, why this thought comes again and again!
I'm left speechless!
Of course, added finishing touches to the story, but it left me wondering what deep perception she has and what kind of thoughts keep churning in that small mind!