Abby just told me tonight that she has decided she is going to stop blinking. Of course my response was a very intelligent, "Huh?" She then explained that she was going to stop blinking so that "they" would stop cutting down the rain forest. Again, a very intelligent, "Huh?" from me as I tried to figure out what the heck she was talking about.
It turns out that there was an assembly at school the other day focusing on the rainforest. At some point in the presentation, the speaker told the kids that the rainforest was disappearing at a certain rate in the time it took the kids to blink their eyes. Abby got it in her head that if she just quit blinking her eyes the rain forest would quit disappearing. She then told me that she hoped "they" would realize how important the rainforest is and stop tearing it down.
It took me a little bit to figure out a way to explain to her that it was safe to keep blinking and that she was not solely responsible for the fall of the rainforests.
Isn't it funny how literally their little minds really work?
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