Numerous magazines have said in some form or another kids are much more intuitive than we give them credit for. They may look occupied, but they are still taking in most of what is going on around them. We found this out several days ago when we were all in the car. Hannah had one of her many bears with her, and she was pretending to talk to it. She started saying something along the lines of "You've been very bad. You're gonna have some hot sauce." Ryan and I looked at each other, horrified. Recently there had been a story on the national news about a woman on Dr. Phil who gave her child hot sauce and put him in a cold shower for misbehaving at school. I could have been easily watching this on TV, while the kids were playing in the same room without even thinking about it. We asked Hannah where she heard about the hot sauce, and she told us pretty much verbatim what they said on the news. Wow. She really was listening! I don't like thinking about my kids having such images in their head. I know I can't shelter them from the fact there are not such nice things in the world (I talked to Hannah the other day about what is going on in Japan), but I by no means want them to think that this behavior is acceptable.
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