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When I was a kid, I believed that little gnomes lived in the traffic lights and physically changed the color of the light when the line of cars got too long. It was a complicated system of ladders and lenses...very sophisticated for gnomes.
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When Matthew was a baby, he would cry for his bottle. I wondered if babies figured that's how things worked: they cry, the bottle magically appears. Did he know that mom and dad were taking care of him?
Fast forward five years.
Matthew would fall asleep watching TV. One night, he was getting ready for bed and I went to turn off his TV. "It's okay, mom. It turns off by itself after I go to sleep." He had no idea that I was going in after he fell asleep and turning it off.
That's when it hit me.
Babies figure that crying = a magically full tummy. Mom and dad are nowhere in the equation.
So now you know...and knowing is half the battle.
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You're welcome.
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