Attention please! All those parents who think their children will preserve their baby-like state and behaviour forever - beware! Those little cheeky monkeys are picking up on everything we use in our social interactions. Every single one of those tools and tricks: the undertones, sarcasm, double-meaning - the lot!
Just this morning, having gobbled up a breakfast worthy of a XVth century Scotsman, Clément sweetly asked for his "dessert" on top of that: "Mummy, you choose: the other sweets or not the other ones." And I said to myself, this is exactly the tactics I use when trying to persuade him to eat his veggies: giving him a choice, but that containing solely the options I approve of. How on earth does a 4-year-old process this in his tiny head?! Even General Suvorov would have been inspired by such effortless strategising and plotting.
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