I've been thinking a lot about how so often we, as adults, make comments or observations about kids and write it off as just a development stage or something of the sort.
Here's some examples:
Middle school girls are so cliquey.
Kids love attention.
Kids love to show off.
Claire and her friend Noel were playing in the backyard and were talking. This is what I heard:
Noel: I have to go. OK. Bye.
Claire: I have to go too. I have to go to the parade.
Noel: I have to go to the parade too.
Claire: I have to go to the parade and the wedding.
Noel: I have to go to the parade and I'm in a wedding.
Claire: I'm in a parade and in a wedding.
Noel: I'm the flowergirl.
Claire: I'm in the parade and I'm going to play the tuba.
It's hard to capture the conversation in print because with each new idea, the girls were raising their voices a little more and standing closer and closer to each other.
As I heard this, I smiled and thought that kids sure do love to play "one up" on each other.
And then I remembered that in different but not so different ways adults (me) do this too.
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