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Today Maddie started to put a brush up to her ear while saying something like the doctor puts medicine in her ears. I thought I would use this incident as a learning opportunity and talk with Maddie about how we NEVER put ANYTHING in our ears. Trying to impress upon her the seriousness of this, I told her that she could hurt her ears and then she wouldn't be able to hear anything--like Mommy, Daddy, music, movies. I had barely finished my sentence when she wiggled her fingers and responded in a 'well of course!' way, "Then I would just talk with my fingers like our neighbor!" (We have a deaf neighbor.) I had to smile--I had obviously failed and didn't know what to say but finished with something lame like it still isn't good to put things in your ears. I guess I'll have to figure out a different strategy for teaching that principle!