Tonight our daughter was eating a small bowl of healthy soup. She asked for cheese and crackers but was told she needed to finish the soup before she could have cheese. A short minute later her plastic bowl of soup crashed to the floor. Mommy and Daddy took instant notice. She piped up and said “Uh-oh” (her usual expression for anything that has wrongfully fallen). Then she clearly piped up and said “what happened” as if she had no idea how this bowl ended up on the floor.
She is surely a bright child. As much as we wish to deal seriously with such situations, we couldn’t help but roll over laughing. Her seriousness in saying “what happened” was severe and clearly she was trying to convince us of her complete innocence. This was quite a spectacular move and she is as gifted an actress as we have ever seen on screen.
The cuteness factor of young children even in the most wrong situations is the downfall of many parensts.
PS… This event did get her a 2 minute time out on the stairs.
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