How to Argue With a Pre-School-Aged Child (And Lose) #22

P=Parent
C=Child

P: (singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in its entirty, ending with "You'll go down in his-to-ryyy!"
C: I don't want to go down in history.
P: Why not?
C: Because. The history books will eat me.
P: Why would the book eat you?
C: I don't know.
P: I don't think a book will eat you.
C: The reindeer will eat me!
P: Nooooo.... reindeers eat carrots!
C: Why?
P: I don't know, I think because they ate carrots in the cartoon?
C: Reindeers eat carrots!
P: Yeah!
C: Bunnies eat carrots too!
P: That's right!
C: Why?
P: Because, carrots are yummy. Are you cool with going down in history now?
C: No.
P: That's too bad. But it's really out of your control.
C: Why is it out of my control?
P: Because it's up to the people of the future what they write in the history books.
C: I don't like history books.