There is a saying about children that says that "children are born knowing Latin." I believe that, rather than knowing it, the poor people clamor it, and it is we, the adults, who teach them to decline and to dominate it.
A few days ago, queuing to get on a swing, a girl of about five years ran to be empty (when we had to climb) and said: "I get on, I'm in a hurry."
What? I told myself dumbfounded. Obviously we ignored him, hurry and swings are not two words that can be combined in one sentence, so we said no, and we helped our son get on. Seeing that his excuse did not have the desired effect, he tried to convince us by rummaging through the weakest terrain of parents who care for children: the Meteorology.
"Oops, look what heaven, it seems that storm is coming". From dumbfounded I went to patitieso. Concerning the future of the health of our children, he wanted to warn us, kindly, that a storm was coming, that is, cold and water and a sure cold (of course there was no storm lurking).
My two conclusions
From this very funny and almost unreal moment I drew two conclusions:
- Girls are rogues, very rogues: and boys not so much. They are able to take charge of the situation and to use your intelligence to turn it at your convenience. Where a girl says "I get in, I'm in a hurry" or "a storm is coming" a boy says "I want to get on the swing".
- The children they learn from what we do with them: That a five-year-old girl has these weapons is no accident. I doubt that he was born with them and I am almost certain that he has learned them from others. I imagine that the parents of this girl must make enough detours and must use the thousand and one strategies to end up getting her to do what they want her to do. The hurry and bad weather is an example: "let's go daughter, we're in a hurry", "let's go daughter, it's approaching storm".
In any case, it was a fun and different scene that made us realize that we should be careful and go straight with the children. Too much manipulation can turn against us.
