Single Dad Advice: Little Kids, Big Ears, Bigger Memories
July 18th, 2007 by FuzzThis is going to sound like a simple little piece of advice, but it goes a lot deeper than you may think. Little kids have big ears. It’s cliché, yes, but most clichés become clichés because they’re true, right?
For instance, let’s say you tell your new girlfriend, away from your daughter but within earshot, that you like your women to have big chests. Don’t then be surprised if your daughter later repeats that sentiment back to you in the form of “I have to have a big chest” or something along those lines. (For the record, the above example is based on a true story, but the names and body parts have been changed to protect the guilty.) How big will you feel when your daughter is objectifying herself based on your prior objectification?
Kids are likely to dislike the people whom you verbalize your dislike for. Kids will not eat the vegetables that you say that you don’t like. Kids will not want to go to the dentist when you say you hate the dentist. You get the idea.
Watch what you say, when you say it, and how you say it. That’s all I’m sayin’.
July 18th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Grannie Anny always said Little Pictures have big ears…Never say your child won’t do something…because they will be the first in line to exactly what you said they wouldn’t do….
November 10th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
The saying is actually, “Little PITCHERS have big ears.” It’s a reference to the handle of a pitcher, sometimes called an ear.