If You Are Going to Talk...

You can figure out what children are hearing by what they say in situations. While keeping our granddaughter the other night, she pretended to read to us from her many books. Now keep in mind that she is 3 and goes to daycare 5 days a week. She dramatically sat on her stool, opened her book, grinned at us, then began this dialogue. Once upon a time, in a very BIG city...if you are going to talk I am not going to read. (At this she put the book under her arm and just looked at us.) Hubby and I sat there in silence as she began the scene again. And again. She never did get past the "I'm not going to read..." We reassured her that we hadn't been talking, but that didn't matter. So I have summed up her daycare experiences this way: 1. The children are talkative. 2. The reader never finishes a story. If the truth be told, our granddaughter is probably one of the children who talk during the reading of the story.