Monday, November 12, 2012

My Little Patriot





It's amazing how oblivious you can be to what your kids really know.  The other day, I was coming home from an appointment with my son.  I pulled up and saw my daughter in the yard carrying around one of those little Lowe's flags that you can use to mark where your irrigation system is located.  I just thought that she was playing with the flag and waving it around.  When I got out of the car, my babysitter proceeds to inform me that my daughter had just said the Pledge of Allegiance to the Lowe's Home Improvement flag.  I didn't even know that she knew the Pledge.  Later that day, I asked her to say it again, and there she stood with her hand over her heart and recited the entire pledge.  My child that doesn't really talk and is socially inappropriate knew exactly what she was supposed to say and do when she saw a flag.  I find that astonishing.

It goes to show that you never know what your child is  picking up on, or what they already know.  I think that my daughter has a huge amount of information stored up there in her little brain. Little by little, she is conveying it to us.  

This little experience makes me realize that I have to be acutely aware of my daily actions.  She is watching what I say and do, and although I may not really think that she is paying attention to me, she is taking in much more than I realize.