Our lovely little daughter who just turned 3 is now enrolled 3 afternoons a week at one of the local Montessori schools. In addition to giving her some creative ways to learn, we also want to see her interact with other kids her age (her class is mixed-age preschoolers, so kids who are 3 or 4, some who are 5).
Today when Shannon picked up Kaileigh from school, the teacher pulled Shannon aside and explained that Kaileigh had acted inappropriately a couple of times today – stealing one girl’s art project and running aroudn the room with it, taking another boy’s lunch box.
As Shannon is driving Kaileigh home in the car, she asks Kaileigh what happened with the other boy with the lunchbox.
3-year-old Kaileigh looked down at her feet, hiding her eyes from mom. “I’d prefer not to discuss the question” was the answer my wife reported to me over barely stifled laughter.
(I did hear later that Kaileigh said “i’m sorry” to both of the kids and gave them hugs, hopefully without also gang-tackling or sucker-punching either of them).
pat loughery 
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