My three and a half year old granddaughter watches it every night Sinterklaas news. All kinds of political matters are secretly ridiculed here.
When her nine-month-old brother is being changed, she comes over and wants to help. That doesn’t work out so well for a while and I say to her: “I know a task for you, maybe you can start dressing yourself?” She responds with: “Will I get a position elsewhere now?”
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A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of December 3, 2021