Recently, my eldest came home and asked, "Mummy, do you have eyes at the back of your head too?" She got my full attention with that one..I straightened up my relaxed posture and redirected "why do you ask honey?" You see, that "too"told me that someone in her day's interaction told her about peripheral vision and I thought she took it to mean actual oglers at the rear of the scull!! The fact that she had just come from school narrowed the list of suspects down further and her tone was kind of respectful and awestruck so that said even more.
I did not want to mess with her teacher's legend so I didn't blow the myth totally out of the water, but I certainly wanted to be privy to the root of her inquiry. "My teacher says that she went to college to get eyes at the back of her head so she always sees when kids misbehave!"
It obviously sounded plausible to a six year old, so instead of decanting same I jumped on the band wagon and heard myself saying, "I went to college too honey, yup everyone gets a pair on graduation day!" She then replied with eyes widened in awe, "Wow!! I've got to go to college."
Sometimes its not the journey, its the destination.
She wants to go to college, great!!
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