The School of Life.

My mom works in a daycare. It must be what is the most interesting job in the world (other than Journo-Screenwriting, really anything to do with travel...eh maybe accounting that's pretty interesting...Just Kidding, lighten up!). She basically gets to enjoy observing the wonder that is the mind of a child, which for those who haven't been so fortunate to observe, is perpetually ongoing, and far more complex and reasoned than any adult I know. In fact, what adult would have a reason for everything, and an answer for the reason. Or at least, have the abiltiy to make when up when asked. Most adults, teens, or people in the middle would be like "eh...I dunno, 'cause I had to," they never question why, or think of the reason behind what they are doing it.

Toddlers are the most interesting. In fact just recently I learned something interesting about toddlers. They KNOW when to cry. {*Note: Names have been changed because well, A) it's not right to use someone else's name in a blog and B) I actually can't remember her name.} Jia was a very intuitive toddler, in fact so much so that she ran in to the glass door head first, fell on her bum, and started crying. When no one picked her up from her fall, or even came to comfort her, she stopped crying immediately, turned her head from side to side suspiciously, gave a giggle, got up, felt the door and went out to play.

As I watched this I felt a strange sort of fear and intimidation. Did she know more than she let on? Was she really a baby? Was she actually a man in disguise working for the FBI or CIA or something...were all babies??? All these questions ran through my mind as I stared at Jia playing on the swingset laughing with her buddies, and then I realized WHAT exactly I was thinking. A baby. In the law enforcement units. Well I had always thought that baby with a gun skit on youtube was hilarious. But this was downright insane.  However, in the end what I did know, is that babies, toddlers, and just little kiddies on a whole were a lot smarter than we take them for (and speaking to them in a baby voice is just making you look stupid.)