It is often said that children know Latin and they are presupposed an incredible ability to manipulate various situations for their benefit, to which many parents are always keen eye, as with care to prevent them from teasing and taking control of the house , the neighborhood, the country and the planet. I've long forgotten that axiom because I saw that all I did was impair the relationship of parents with children and I replaced it with another that says that "children often understand less than we think."
A good example is that of this video, in which a pregnant woman and her daughter star in a fun scene. They are in a medical consultation, they are doing an ultrasound to the mother, the baby is seen on the screen, and the girl, who will be the older sister, realizes that there is a baby in her mother's belly and, surprised , The question "Did you eat a baby?".
Surely they had previously talked about it. Surely after the positive pregnancy test they gave the girl the news that she would soon have a little brother. The parents would assume that the girl would know that the baby would grow inside, but you see that not.
The mother's belly would start to grow, and since on ultrasound they tell her the sex of the baby, a child, surely the pregnancy was already more than evident (about 20 weeks, from a second pregnancy she gives for a good belly), but the girl, as you see, I hadn't tied ends yet. He probably hadn't even thought about asking his mother why he had such a belly. And one day they tell him that they are seeing the baby inside his belly and, of course, he hallucinates. How the hell has your mother been able to eat a baby?
Well, sure, then came an interesting conversation between mother and daughter to try to explain how the baby got there to try to prevent her from thinking that her parents are cannibals.
By the way, I take this opportunity to remember an entry I wrote a while ago on the subject of the little brothers, a tip so that you don't ask your children if they want a little brother, that many parents keep doing and continue to receive puzzling answers.
