working it out

My five year old was holding forth about organized sports in the way that only five year olds can:

"I don't like to run a race because there's cheating."

Taking my motherly, let me explain how the world really works tone, I say, "There doesn't have to be cheating if everyone decides to be a good sport. "

"Yeah, if a mean person is playing sports and they do mean things, they are being a bad sport."

"Unh huh."

"And if everyone is nice and doing nice things then they are being good sports."

"That's right."

"And when I was playing baseball at the YMCA for Daddy, I was a frustrated sport."

Can't argue with logic like that.