Children Will Listen

"Little pitchers have big ears," is a phrase I remember my mother saying often when I was a little kid. She usually said it when she was on the phone and my sisters and I were playing at the table, or she was talking to my dad, while we were all eating dinner.

I didn't know why she was whispering about milk pitchers and ears when all I wanted to do was find out more about why Mrs. Jones wasn't talking to Mr. Jones anymore, or how our babysitter got in trouble and now had to get married. But I did notice that the really interesting stories stopped right after she uttered that phrase.

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