I don’t remember where I ran across this idea, but I read somewhere that kids Carrie’s age have this belief that words are magic – as in, if they say something, then it becomes true. So what adults perceive as lying in small children is really just the child trying to alter reality to make it the way they think the adult wants it to be.
Carrie obviously believes in the power of her words. Since I’ve been sick, she says “I give you two kisses Mommy, to make you feel better”, kisses me twice, and then says (while wagging her finger at me) “You are not old, and you are not sick. You are just fine!”
Don’t ask me where she got the old part from. No idea. Especially because if you ask her how old I am she says “three!”
I wish she were right, and the words worked like magic. I’d like to not be sick anymore. Being stuck in the house for most of a week with a toddler while not feeling 100% is really not the most fun I’ve ever had in my life.
But I suppose the “magic words” concept explains why I can tell her a half a dozen times that we don’t have any bagels in the house to eat for breakfast, and yet she’ll insist that we do. I guess to her I’m making the bagels go away after she’s already willed them into existence…
I have the same trouble with my 2 yr old, she insists we have sausage rolls!
Hope you’re feeling better soon.
First off, I really hope you feel better real soon.
The magic word concept would be really great. Can you imagine how great it would be if it worked. I would have so much wonderful yarn it would be impossible to walk about the house! Yarn, I will have more yarn!