Whispers

I'm watching my three year old honorary niece at the moment, and as much as she is a smart and sometimes very devious child, I could not see her having any thoughts like "bring ice cream" or knowing that her aunt could "hear" if she was called.

Kids do understand a lot more than we give them credit for, but he still didn't seem much like a one year old to me. Then again, I wouldn't have tried to convey the world from a one year old's perspective. I still feel like I overage the ones I write at nine or ten if I try and get into their heads, and sometimes I think that even the ones I refused to try and see the head space of (Mouse, Squirrel and a few others) are too old for their ages at times.

I... had times where I was babysitting my sister's kids so much it was more like I was raising them, and I started avoiding all kid fics when I read fanfics because I didn't see realistic portrayals of kids of almost any age. I am a bit oversensitive to it, I think, but I was having a hard time with the kids being so far from ones I lived with and knew as well as I did.