The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.
~ Jane Addams
- - - - -The child stared me down with both suspicion and curiosity. Suspicious of what I would do next and curious as to why I would do such a thing.
I stared back at the monster feet things on the child's fingers. Just as she was suspicious of me, I was suspicious of her. We held each others' gaze for a while and then both got bored and went back to what we had been doing before.
It was a tense but almost completely uneventful exchange.
(pause)
And they all lived happily ever after. Except for the monster with two missing feet.
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