One thing that has surprised me about parenthood is how quickly my son catches on to my tricks. If we have a beverage (coffee, beer) that we don't share with him we will tell him it's "yucky". If something is really spicy and he wants some we tell him it might give him an owie. He will generally agree with us and repeat emphatically "yucky!" "might get owie!" and move on.
The other day Roscoe and I were enjoying some goldfish crackers (him enjoying more than I since I was only eating the leftover soggy ones he so generously fed me). He offered one to Luka and I said that she can't eat crackers yet because she is too little. He looked her in the eye and told her (very seriously): "yucky; might get owie" and then ate the cracker himself.
This told me two things:
1. He clearly knows we are lying to him.
2. He humors us by "going along with it"
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