I'll have some wine

The lesson was on food and drinks. The teacher asked the girl, "What do you drink with your lunch?" The girl's answer, "I'll have some wine."

Learning happens in two directions once your children enter school. The first way this happens is by the child taking in all of the information and experiences that the teacher and school give to them. The second: the teacher and school taking in all of the information that your child gives to them. Now, some of this information isn't so bad. It reaffirms the knowledge that they've learned. However, sometimes it reaffirms the information that they've absorbed when you didn't know they were absorbing it.

My daughter's simple answer to her teacher about having wine with her lunch was, thankfully, laughed off. No, I don't give her wine. But, she learned it by recalling all the times that I have ordered wine with my meals or poured my own glass at home. It's not a major dilemma. Some day I'll teach my daughter about proper drinking ages. But, in the meantime, I think I'll start waiting until after bedtime to pour myself a vodka tonic.

Mama Law learned: If you think your child isn't paying attention to you, you'll learn that they are when their teacher repeats what your child has taught him or her.

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