“From the mouths of babes,” as the saying goes- and my precocious three-year-old does have a disconcerting tendency to hit the nail on the head, throwing in every big grown-up word she thinks she knows how to use in order to get her point across effectively. Of course, a few of the big words she loves so much don't actually exist, but her determination to use them is pretty charming.

My wife and I were bickering about something this week- nothing serious, just the normal stresses of life when you're raising two young girls and living on very little money. We were getting pretty irritated with each other, until our daughter piped up with the following lecture.

“Dada? Dada? I think it's very important that we try not to entersain kids too much. When Mamas and Dadas talk, sometimes it goes into kids' brains and they have to think about it for long, long hours. So we have to be very careful about what we say. So I want this talk to be nicer.”

Well, as you might imagine, this pretty much stopped us in our tracks. You can't really go on being a stubborn jerk when your three-year-old daughter can tell you're being a stubborn jerk and nicely asks you to stop it. So we all ended up making up and reading a “Berenstain Bears” book together. And my wife and I took a deep breath and worked it out- as quickly as possible, to avoid getting another lecture.

I have a really great kid.